Though this vaccine works differently, Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at UVA Health, says it’s not a reason to fear. “In the cell, both, or all three vaccines, are essentially doing the same thing. But the delivery mechanism is slightly different,” he said.
Recently nominated for the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce’s 40 Under 40 Award, [UVA alumna] Jennifer Masi is the epitome of a good deed doer. Jen has worked at the Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. since 2011. In 2017 she became the pro bono director for the nonprofit organization, representing at-risk children living in homes suffering the gravest job, food and shelter insecurities.
Local sports hero and former NFL player Dennis Haley [a UVA alumnus] released his first book last month. “The Playbook: The Art of Dreaming” recounts the trials and tribulations that he endured during his journey to become a professional athlete. It also provides a playbook for how readers can accomplish their dreams the way Haley did.
Two UVA Health doctors, who specialize in treating heart rhythm problems, made each other’s hearts skip a beat more than 20 years ago. Dr. Pamela Mason and Dr. Rohit Malhotra sat next to each other in medical school thanks to their last names.
Legendary Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson will join a panel discussion with more than a dozen experienced local marathoners, including Charlie Hurt and UVA President Jim Ryan, on Sunday from 4-5 p.m.
“People who describe themselves as religious or spiritual, those who are more connected with the world around them and those who are seeking meaning – or in distress and searching for signs – are more likely to experience coincidences,” said Bernard Beitman, a visiting psychiatry and neuro-behavioural sciences professor at UVA and a coincidence researcher.
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UVA political scientist Larry Sabato, a widely respected commentator on American politics and the head of the Uuniversity’s Center for Politics, says Johnson’s book is “revealing” and “well written” as it charts the disturbing trend toward ever more negative campaigning since 1980.
Herrera Beutler also may benefit from Washington’s “top two” primary system, which puts every candidate on the same ballot regardless of party, said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the nonpartisan politics newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think it definitely plays to her advantage. I would definitely say if Washington had a closed Republican primary, that would be potentially very tough for her,” Coleman said.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political analyst, said that for decades after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, “outside of a few liberal white pockets, and much of the Black community, support for the death penalty was strong. And it was fundamental to political success. … If a politician wanted to win statewide, or in most localities and districts, he had to trumpet his backing for two things – capital punishment and the right-to-work law.”
Political scientist Larry Sabato took a grim view of the scene in Orlando. “Trump continues his #BigLie drumbeat about having really WON the election,” tweeted Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “And these #CPAC cultists cheer him loudly. Beyond hopeless.”
Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, described the delay in funding as offering a chance to further refine program design. An economist at UVA, Hudson has been the most outspoken skeptic among Democratic lawmakers this session of the effectiveness of publicly funded rebates as a policy tool.
The circumstances of Mr. Floyd’s death could overcome challenges that hurt the strength of previous complaints about prone restraints. “The fact that someone is criminally prosecuted identifies the defendant as a bad actor in a way a civil suit doesn’t,” said John Jeffries, a criminal law professor at UVA. “It’s harder for the criminal defendant police officer to successfully say, ‘I’m a cop. I just do what cops do.’”
The UVA Medical Center reported an average daily census for the Feb. 19-25 period of 462.3, 75.3% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 31.3, down from last week’s average of 34.7.
Beginning Tuesday, UVA Health will permit additional visitation to its in-patient units, emergency department and procedural areas.
For the Blue Ridge Health District, the increase in dose allocation means it will get 4,170 first-dose vaccines a week. The release says nearly half of those will be distributed to UVA Health to help with vaccinating people at the Seminole Square location and other community sites.
(Editorial) “Out-migration from Virginia is largely being driven by Northern Virginia and to a lesser extent Hampton Roads,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “Before the 2010s, out-migration from Northern Virginia was more likely to be to the rest of Virginia than out of state. During the early 2010s this trend reversed. … Virginia’s slower population growth in recent years has principally been due to the fact that more people moving out of Northern Virginia are going to other states than other parts of Virginia.”
New modeling from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute warns against complacency, however. The institute reports that the spread of the B.1.1.7 variant, which is more contagious, could create another surge in cases. It noted that half of the state’s current 10 hot spots are in college towns, including Charlottesville, where the variant has been reported among cases at UVA.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute’s latest report on the pandemic, issued Friday, continued to be optimistic. Average daily cases per capita were at about 39 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Feb. 14. Daily cases are thought to have peaked at just over 68 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Jan. 24.
With cases on a steep decline, variants are becoming the focus of concern among health experts, including the University of Virginia. UVA’s Biocomplexity institute, which each Friday provides a report on the pandemic, said that a combination of variants and Virginia residents’ abandoning safety precautions could lead to another spike in cases by summer, with a peak in June higher than the one experienced in January.
Historian Hannah Scruggs curated the exhibit. She started with the oral histories that had been collected during a heritage and history day at the school, as well as those in collections at the University of Virginia and the Scottsville Museum, Brody said. They also went through items at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, including six boxes of artifacts from the school, obtained more research from the Scottsville Museum and utilized newspaper articles, yearbooks and additional information from families from the area.