The FDA authorization follows a steadily increasing deployment of predictive tools in the emergency department, ICU and other hospital areas where patients might be at risk of sudden decline. UVA Health has rolled out an AI-based predictive analytics tool that monitors COVID-19 patients continuously and predicts whether they are likely to decline. The system, known as CoMET, delivers a graphic summarizing a given patient’s status, drawing on data from patients’ EHRs such as EKGs, lab results and vital signs.
Even UVA professor Ben Castleman, the founder and director of Nudge4, which studies low-cost behavioral interventions, is coming to the conclusion that expensive, intensive advising programs are the best way to help more low-income students obtain a college degree. In a November study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost-effective.
UVA’s Descendant Outreach Program is shedding light on the lives and history of enslaved laborers at the university. New research, presented by Dr. Shelley Murphy in a virtual webinar Saturday morning, traces a genealogical line between families in Louisa County to enslaved laborers who worked on the University’s Grounds.
A Friday report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which monitors the virus’s progression, provided a warning to the promising trends: If residents ignore the COVID-19 restrictions, the state could close in on a peak as high as January’s.
New cases are declining statewide, according to UVA’s COVID-19 Model published Friday on the Virginia Department of Health’s website. “The majority of model projection scenarios predict we are past the peak,” the update says.
UVA officials are considering raising undergraduate tuition and fees as much as 3.1% for the next school year, but the exact amount will depend on how much money the state gives to the school and if costs increase. The Board of Visitors will hold a virtual public comment session Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. and will provide more information about the tuition request and process.
The more infectious UK variant of the COVID-19 virus has been identified on the UVA Grounds, officials confirmed on Friday.
UVA on Friday announced the new U.K. variant of COVID-19 is present in the “University community.” The University did not immediately respond to questions regarding how many people have the new variant nor whether those people are students or staff.
UVA on Friday announced the new U.K. variant of COVID-19 is present in the “University community.” The University did not immediately respond to questions regarding how many people have the new variant nor whether those people are students or staff.
Casual displays of affection weren’t always so commonplace for first couples. According to Dr. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, it was the sexual revolution of the 1960s that redefined standards for how all Americans – including commanders in chief – could interact with their spouses in public.
Jack Hamilton, UVA associate professor of media and American studies and author of “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination,” said that American popular music and Black music are, and always will be, bonded together. “It’s literally impossible to imagine the music industry of today without the influence of Black artists and Black culture,” he said. “The history of American popular music and the history of Black American music are essentially inseparable – there isn’t a single genre of contemporary popular music that isn’t fundamentally rooted in Black musical traditions....
A trio of indicators show that the COVID-19 pandemic may be easing its grip on Virginia and Northern Virginia, according to new reports Saturday and analysis from the University of Virginia.
The history of social activism in sports runs deep, and players have used their platform to spotlight injustice. So when deadly protests erupted near the University of Virginia three years ago, Los Angeles Rams linebacker Micah Kiser felt compelled to answer the call.
Two UVA School of Law students recently found themselves in court. No, they weren’t in any type of legal trouble. Rather, the two ladies seized an opportunity to hone the skills they learned in the classroom.
“The crippling thing about telemedicine for glaucoma care is that it doesn’t enable IOP checks, visual fields and OCT scans that provide the critical information we need to follow,” says Dr. Peter Netland, Vernah Scott Moyston Professor and chair of ophthalmology at the UVA School of Medicine. “Without that, we’ll risk missing something important. What doctors are saying when they do home visits is that they’re willing to miss a certain amount of change in the patient’s status. For us, we decided early on, as a glaucoma group, that we were going to try to provide protection for ourselves and o...
Maryland’s tax also reflects the collision of two economic trends during the pandemic: The largest tech companies have had milestone financial performances as social distancing moved work, play and commerce further online. But cities and states saw their tax revenues plummet as the need for their social services grew. “They’re really getting squeezed,” said Ruth Mason, a professor at UVA’s School of Law. “And this is a huge way to target a tax to the winners of the pandemic.”
Last fall, physicians said the treatments Trump received were for patients who are much sicker than Trump’s team said he was. “If the president is more ill than the press conferences are letting on, then his treatment may well be reasonable,” Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease specialist, said in October. “If the president is doing as well as the press conferences describe, then his treatment is very aggressive.”
Commission Vice Chair Andrew Block, a professor at the UVA School of Law, says that it was an eye-opening experience for the commission members and the UVA Law students that helped in the research. They were not naïve about the existence of structural racism, but seeing how interconnected the disparities were, and just how long-lasting the effects of centuries of the segregationist laws they studied in their first report were, they were shocked.
Health experts said it is not until two weeks after your second dose does the vaccine reach its full potential. “The drawback is that it is really good protection, but it does take some time in order to build up that immune response because your cells have to learn how to recognize it then they have to make antibodies to it and that all takes a little bit of time. After it has gone through that process, then the protection is quite good,” explains Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA critical care and infectious disease doctor.
Due to a 50-50 split vote in the Senate, and the need for a supermajority to convict, it may be tough to get a conviction. “Maybe best case, the Democrats can get like six defections from the Republicans, they need like 16 or 17,” said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.