(Podcast) The University of Virginia professor and author of “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise Of High-Tech Driving” details a decades-long history of autonomous-driving promises and scrutinizes America's car-dependent transportation system.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are encouraging pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Donald Dudley with UVA Health says pregnant women are three to four times more likely to have a stillbirth if they have a COVID-19 infection, among other serious risk factors that can occur during pregnancy or delivery if they are unvaccinated. While Dudley said the hospital has not seen any stillbirths among pregnant women who are being treated for COVID-19 at UVA Medical, he said the hospital has seen many pregnant women on ventilators because they are unvaccinated. Dudley said many o...
COVID-19 cases being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center are still dropping off. Doctors say many people have immunity to the omicron variant right now, after so many positive cases through the holidays. They’re keeping an eye out on what this means for the future. “Exactly what level of immunity - is it immunity to infection, or is it immunity to serious consequences of infection, hospitalization - that’s going to be not clear and there may be some differences depending on different populations,” Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA epidemiologist, said Friday.
Mask mandates are lifting around the commonwealth in places like schools and restaurants. While people are now making this choice for themselves, one doctor with the University of Virginia is sharing his advice on moving forward. “We’re not quite in that in that situation where we can just start lifting a lot of restrictions,” Dr. Taison Bell said.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said many of his unvaccinated patients had similar feelings and regretted their decisions. When he asked why they weren't vaccinated, they would mostly answer, "I just thought I didn't need to get vaccinated. And there are sighs of regret in how they say it," Bell said. "These are preventable deaths now, by and large. The people that we have in the ICU could have avoided hospitals altogether if they were vaccinated."
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss vaccine efficacy on omicron, how the U.S. has not reached an endemic, future waves and subvariants, and COVID relief funding from the White House.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) The first issue of Shabkhoon, dated June 1966, was launched in April. My mother’s moral and financial support had been crucial in the year-long planning for the launch of this independent, highbrow literary journal.
(Commentary by Peter Norton, associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society) Some developers of high-tech driving systems want to collect and monetize data from vehicle occupants. Automakers are already making vehicles that can collect personal data from the people in them, and are working hard to find ways to collect more. This dangerous trend is accelerating.
For the third consecutive day, the University of Virginia women swam the fastest time in history in a relay, and this time, the Cavaliers annihilated the NCAA and U.S. Open records in the 400 medley relay by more than two seconds. They beat the American record by nearly three seconds. The team of Gretchen Walsh, Alexis Wenger, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, combined to swim a time of 3:22.34, compared to the previous NCAA and U.S. Open record of 3:24.59 set by NC State at last year’s NCAA Championships. The previous American record (3:25.09) had belonged to a Simone Manuel-led Stanford team sin...
Heading into the last evening of racing at the ACC Championships, the University of Virginia women held the lead after a brilliant week that has included American and NCAA records in the 200 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay, but the Cavaliers were only slightly ahead of NC State. However, on the final night, Virginia got three individual victories from Reilly Tiltmann (200 back), Kate Douglass (100 free) and Alex Walsh (200 breast) to open up an advantage over the Wolfpack. Finally, Virginia capped off the meet with a win in the 400 free relay to finish the meet with 1418.5 po...
Although most of De. Sally Hudson’s bills did not survive crossover, she did incorporate a piece of legislation into two others that also seek to address medical debt collection. Prompted by widely condemned debt collection practices until recently utilized by the University of Virginia Medical Center and other state hospitals, Hudson said the combined bill all seeks to end the debt collection processes that included home property liens for many in Central Virginia. “In particular, it’s prohibiting not just public hospitals, but now every hospital in Virginia from engaging in the kind of debt ...
More than 2,000 hospitals have been penalized at least once in the eight years since the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program began. Fifty-five hospitals – including the UVA Medical Center – have been penalized all eight years, according to Kaiser Health News.
UVA Health continues to report a downward trend in COVID-19 hospitalizations. UVA Health currently has 70 COVID-19 patients with 43 adults in acute units. There are 17 patients in the ICU and seven are pediatric patients.
The weekly report from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute notes that the BA.2 subvariant of omicron now accounts for 6.2% of Virginia's new cases and could slow the decline. The report suggests that subvariant could become dominant by March.
If the latest COVID-19 projection model pans out, infections in the Dan River Region could reach all-time lows by mid-April. “It is hard not to be excited by the last few weeks,” researchers with the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute wrote in Friday’s report. For the first time since December, there’s no health district in the commonwealth experiencing a surge of cases. In fact, nearly all are in a decline for the second consecutive week.
Friday’s report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute suggests cases will continue to decline, but it warned rural regions may still feel pain. “Case rates remain very high for some rural parts of the state, in particular counties in Southside and the Far Southwest,” researchers wrote in the update. “Residents in these regions should continue to wear a mask when in indoor public places.”
Respected political scientist Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia, working with political analyst Louis Jacobson, identified education, race and urban vs. rural as the three best demographic characteristics for predicting a state’s future voting behavior. In doing so they have followed in the footsteps of several election forecasters.
Harvard, with an endowment of $51.9 billion, held the top spot, followed by the University of Texas System with $42.9 billion. Private universities dominated the top 20 largest endowments, but a handful of public institutions rounded out the list, including the University of Virginia with a $10.5 billion endowment.
The American Phbilosophical Association traditionally held its annual conventions over the Christmas holidays of the collegiate world, and at the end of 1948 William Thomas Valeria Fontaine made plans to attend the gathering of the premier Eastern Division of the Association. The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, a few hours to the south, would host the meeting where the APA would formally accept Fontaine ept into full membership. … On their arrival in Charlottesville, however, the philosophers crossed the tracks and made their way into the “Nigra’ section” of town — the Sou...
Black History Month is a very important time to learn and reflect on the significance of African-Americans and their history everywhere, especially for students of color at the University of Virginia.