COVID-19 Archive

A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms. A third or more of these cases would need to be isolated, in addition to most symptomatic cases, to quell the pandemic.

A national committee that includes a prominent University of Florida physician has recommended to federal and world leaders a four-phase approach to fairly allocate COVID-19 vaccines when they become available.

Recent research shows that about 80% of those who took up gardening since the beginning of COVID-19 will continue the pastime in 2021.

A look back at the contributions of UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute to campus-wide COVID-19 research.

Calistus Ngonghala, a UF math professor, published a study on how contributions like wearing masks and social distancing could affect the spread of COVID-19.

Never before had the world looked as it had in the spring of 2020, when the start of the coronavirus pandemic convened a number of unusual circumstances all at once.

Patients with a vitamin D deficiency were four times more likely to be COVID-19 positive than those with a sufficient amount of the crucial vitamin.

University of Florida Health researchers are joining an ambitious global effort led by The Rockefeller Foundation to better track the coronavirus and its variants and set up a network of collaborators to stop any nascent pandemic in the future.

Guilt and shame are two prevailing emotions surrounding COVID-19. This guilt stems in part from the fact that anyone could be a potential carrier of the virus.

New research into why teachers leave the profession could help schools avoid an exodus of instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic.