As a part of this program, contracts were awarded to Virginia Tech, UVA Health and Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk in an effort to invest in the future response to pandemics and other public health threats by establishing a structure for collaboration.
Gov. Ralph Northam announced that the Virginia Department of Health and Department of General Services, which oversees the state’s public health lab in Richmond, finalized contracts with Virginia Tech, the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk to boost capacity to 7,000 tests a day by the end of the year.
It is called diabetic retinopathy, and Dr. Michael Cusick, an ophthalmologist with UVA Health, says many people have no symptoms at all until it’s too late, so screening is really important.
A new study from the University of Virginia found increased Facebook usage among conservatives is associated with reading more conservative sites than they normally do. The effect was less dramatic among liberals.
The University of Virginia held a virtual panel on Monday called “Litigating the Election” aimed at clarifying residual ambiguities and highlighting the lessons learned.
State rivalries are being put aside to remember those who lost their lives serving our country.
Dr. Sam Graham turned 100 last week. His wife, Jane, beat him there by five months. The Grahams met in the early 1940s when both were attending UVA.
Biden keeping her outside job is significant, UVA political science professor Jennifer Lawless said. “It sends a very strong message to women: No matter how accomplished, powerful or important your husband, you don’t have to abandon your own career or play second fiddle.”
The state Department of General Services and Virginia Department of Health awarded three Virginia laboratories – including the UVA Medical Center – contracts to participate in the state’s new OneLab Network, aimed to expand the commonwealth’s COVID-19 testing capacity.
The first AP Poll of the 2020-21 season came out Monday, and the Virginia Cavaliers checked in at No. 4. Virginia is technically still the reigning national champion after the 2020 NCAA tournament was canceled as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and the Hoos will have a legitimate shot at keeping the crown for three straight years.
“This is extraordinary. It’s within less than a year from starting the vaccine development to having phase three trial results. It’s completely unprecedented. I think the earlier record was probably about four years or so with Ebola, so this is really fantastic,” William Petri, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Virginia, said.
Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania stood at more than 45,000 votes Monday afternoon, not including the late-arriving ballots at issue. “If those ballots couldn’t change the election to make any difference to how Pennsylvania will be decided, then he doesn’t have a claim he can bring,” said Deborah Hellman, a University of Virginia law professor.
Carolyn Engelhard, a UVA professor of health policy, said that nearly 80% of those who lost insurance during the pandemic are eligible for coverage under either the ACA or Medicaid.
(Radio interview) We wanted to talk about that more with someone who’s been on the front lines of battling COVID-19, so we called Dr. Taison Bell. He is the director of the medical intensive care unit at the University of Virginia.
John D. Voss, vice chairman for quality and safety at UVA Health, attributed part of the regional increase to fatigue with following protocols known to keep the virus from spreading.
UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard explained that as Virginia’s population densities increased and decreased in various areas throughout the southern, northern and southwestern parts of the state, its districts continuously had to stretch upward or outward to chase population growth.
“Previously we’d seen that as the wound started to heal, the MAP gel started to lose porosity, which limited how the tissue could grow through the structure,” says Don Griffin, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who is a first author on the paper and a former postdoctoral fellow in the Segura Lab.
University of Virginia’s chapter of Girls Who Code approached Maxar with a mission to support a 48-hour hackathon focused on “action-oriented projects that reflect innovation, diverse perspectives and empowerment.”
“Usually when one-term presidents were defeated, there’s a graceful transition. You can look at Ford, you can look at Carter, you can look at George H.W. Bush, they were all very gracious,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.