In narrow legal terms, the Trump team has lost this fight: when the 2020 census form was distributed last summer, it did not have a citizenship question on it. But in other ways, they have won by default: the battle has sparked deep fear about the census “not only among immigrants and their families, but also among naturalized as well as US-born citizens with immigrant parents,” says Qian Cai, a demographer at the University of Virginia who estimates that 14% of the population is foreign-born.
The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba would bolster new interests, most obviously in the hard-hit tourist industry of both countries, a US specialist deemed. Brantly Womack, an expert on China at UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, considered that restarting relations with Cuba is like picking a ripe plum for the government that will be headed by Joe Biden starting Jan. 20.
As more consumers become used to these new types of doctor visits (McKinsey estimates that only 11% of consumers had used telehealth in 2019, compared to 76% now utilizing these services), and providers become more comfortable giving them, what was once a dream for many health care workers is quickly becoming the norm. As Dr. Karen S. Rheuban, director and co-founder of UVA’s Center for Telehealth, puts it, “[we’re] moving from a Blockbuster model to a Netflix model.”
Before receiving the vaccine, Blakey says he had concerns that stemmed from the Tuskegee syphilis trials conducted between 1932 and 1972, but his fears were eased after calls with the UVA Health medical professionals who had received the vaccine. “I was privy to some Zoom calls with some UVA doctors,” he said “Dr. Ebony [Hilton] in correlation with the NAACP, they are trying to get a PSA out there to reduce the fears of the Black community and in that Zoom video conference she pretty much put my fears at ease.”
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, breaks down the latest developments on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
David Walsh, a UVA postdoctoral fellow who studies the far right, agreed the storming of the Capitol by protesters was unprecedented. “In the American context, nothing like this has ever happened before,” Walsh said. Walsh said that Jews should be alarmed by the escalation in violence and said the QAnon conspiracy theory that has been woven throughout the “Stop the Steal” protests was essentially an antisemitic “blood libel.”
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says President Donald Trump must now be removed from office with only two weeks left. “This is what happens when you elect a narcissistic would-be dictator as President of the United States,” he said. “It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment. Install Mike Pence. Get Donald Trump out of town and away from the levers of power.”
Dr. Ebony Hilton, a prolific physician at the University of Virginia, asked why there were no arrests. “Where are the handcuffs? Where are the arrests? Where is the tear gas?” Dr. Hilton demanded. “Did we use up all of the rubber bullets at the peaceful Black Lives Matter rallies because our Capitol Building is under siege? When are law and order going to show up?”
On Wednesday, the social networks faced more calls to suspend Trump’s accounts and take stronger action against posts that incite violence. UVA law professor Danielle Citron and others posted tweets urging Twitter to boot Trump from the social media site. “Time is now to suspend Trump’s account,” Citron tweeted. “He has deliberately incited violence, causing mayhem with his lies and threats.”
“As someone who has served on your Trust and Safety Board since its inception and counseled you since 2009, time is now to suspend President Trump’s account,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia, in a tweet. “He has deliberately incited violence, causing mayhem with his lies and threats.”
(Commentary by Brian Richter, lecturer in urban and environmental planning) Among the important lessons learned from the COVID pandemic is that we need to be ever vigilant in monitoring for big emerging threats. And we must be poised to respond when risks escalate. Given the dangerous water shortage risks mounting in the Colorado River basin, Colorado’s political leaders and water managers must heed those lessons and act quickly.
NBC29 recently shared the story of a man in dire need of a kidney transplant. Now, we are happy to share he found a match and it came on Christmas Day. His donor wishes to remain anonymous, but Leigh’s transplant is set for sometime in February at UVA Health.
A December 2016 case study of the American Underground entrepreneurial hub published by The Thriving Cities Project, a research initiative of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, deemed the project “a runaway success” and a “leading example of what we call a new-paradigm enterprise.”
Garland’s selection could frustrate more progressive members of the diverse coalition that helped elect Biden. On the bench, the judge developed a moderate to conservative record on criminal justice, according to an analysis by Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog. A more recent analysis by professors at the University of Virginia concluded that Garland was “in line with the Republican appointees” on criminal cases.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam held his first COVID-19 briefing of 2021 on Wednesday afternoon. He spoke about the University of Virginia COVID-19 model predicting an increase in cases and provided information on the vaccine distribution.
Research performed at the University of Virginia indicates that a scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body.
Several upcoming events in Charlottesville seek to acknowledge the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning on Jan. 18, the University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is planning a series of virtual events lasting through Jan. 31, per a news release. King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the theme of the 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
University of Virginia’s Center for Politics had planned to talk about the political headlines during a ‘Democracy Dialogue’ on Wednesday night, but the violence in Washington, D.C. changed the discussion and the insights shared by Larry Sabato.
University of Virginia officials denounced the actions of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as a “coup d’etat,” with one supporting President Donald Trump’s removal from office. The UVA Center for Politics planned the first of its Democracy Dialogues for Wednesday. It was supposed to feature U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., but Kaine was taken to a secure location as rioters supporting Trump stormed the building. Kaine was unable to attend the event.
Current Big East commissioner and UVA alumna Val Ackerman was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for 2021.