Typically, the University of Virginia runs between 500 and 600 each day. “Monday and Tuesday of this week, we hit 1,000 tests per day, which is pretty much the maximum that our laboratory can handle in any single day,” UVA Medical Laboratories Medical Director Dr. Chris Moskaluk said Thursday.
UVA Health officials say they expect a potential post-holiday surge of COVID-19 cases in Central Virginia. Dr. Costi Sifri, head of epidemiology at the UVA Medical Center, said he anticipates a steep rise in cases from the omicron variant.
The average number of pediatric hospitalizations has skyrocketed nationwide in the past week. Doctors in the Charlottesville area say beds at UVA Children’s have not been overwhelmed, but the return to school could be a better indicator of worry. “There are definitely more cases in children, but that’s a reflection of all of the cases that we’re seeing locally and nationally,” Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley with the UVA Medical Center said.
Citing a sudden surge of COVID-19 cases, UVA Health officials are implementing a ban on visitors at the UVA Medical Center and Transitional Care Hospital that began Thursday at 9 p.m.
UVA Children’s doctors reviewed practices for bathing newborns. They uncovered a lack of standards for newborn skin care and professional advice for parents.
A group from The University of Virginia came out with a tuna robot that moves its tail like the real deal. The researchers think that this tail design may one day be used to propel the underwater vehicles of the future.
Around 250,000 documents, some stretching to hundreds of pages, are being carefully untangled and digitized by a transatlantic team of researchers, archivists and digital detectives in a join project involving Edinburgh University and the University of Virginia Law Library. Dr James P. Ambuske, co-director of the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project at the UVA Law Library, said: “These are stories of people at their very worst and their very best, waiting to be told, and because they are printed documents, once digitized we can use advanced technology to reassemble complete cases,...
A new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology provides more evidence that a Montessori education may be superior to traditional methods of education, especially on measures relating to students’ long-term psychological health and well-being. “Wellbeing, or the felt experience of health, happiness, and flourishing, predicts several desirable outcomes including better health and work performance, longevity, and more positive social behavior and relations,” say the authors of the research, led by Angeline Lillard of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Arlington’s fourth high school – where half of the students are from low-income families – sets a standard for such campuses that we rarely ever see. That school, Wakefield High, is where the teachers who wrote the protest letter work. The school is the subject of a recent UVA study chronicling its success in challenging every student.
An international team of scientists has created a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed and recently exposed could take at home to prevent serious illness, according to a University of Virginia news release.
While experimenting with mice in 2019, researchers at the University of Virginia discovered that fluvoxamine could be an effective treatment for sepsis, or blood-borne infection. A large study in France during the early months of the pandemic found that Covid-19 patients treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as fluvoxamine were significantly less likely to be intubated or to die.
Virginia is poised to easily eclipse the high levels endured earlier this year, according to the University of Virginia’s most recent forecast. The numbers are driven by the extremely transmissible omicron variant, yet another altered version of the coronavirus.
UVA experts warn that although the impacts may not be as bad, the sheer volume of infections could easily push hospitals – already facing severe staffing shortages – to the brink, especially when combined with growing flu cases an other winter ailments.
The University of Virginia’s widely followed modeling suggests if the omicron variant hits Hampton Roads, new cases could rise from about 2,000 a week in early December to somewhere between 11,600 and 39,000 by mid-February 2022 – a big spread and well above the peak of 8,950 cases seen for the week ended Jan. 24.
A forecasting model produced by the Virginia Department of Health and UVA predicts the state will reach the peak of its omicron variant surge in early February.
(Commentary) Virginia’s reputation as a political bellwether, and relative swing state, has disguised one of the great challenges facing the commonwealth: We are not only deeply divided, but to a striking extent Virginians of different political outlooks are dispersed geographically from one another, and thus losing our connections and sense of shared purpose.
Fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant and its delta cousin, the number of COVID-19 cases is reaching record levels across the region, the state and on the University of Virginia Grounds.
University of Virginia: Full vaccination required, booster required. According to their website, UVA is is requiring all students and staff to upload proof of their updated vaccine status to the school by Feb. 1.
The University of Virginia’s students, faculty, and staff will be required to get a COVID-19 booster shot for the spring semester.
Foxhaven is the first natural area you see along this quiet road. It was longtime Foxhaven resident Jane Heyward, a gardening and hiking enthusiast, who, throughout the decades that her family owned and lived at this beautiful estate, explored, navigated and created her beloved Ragged Mountain paths. In doing so, thanks to Jane’s passionate pathfinding legacy and the meticulous upkeep by UVA, which now owns this iconic estate, this magnificent property has been opened to the public.