COVID-19

NIH has launched two adaptive clinical trials evaluating the safety and effectiveness of blood thinners to treat COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on education has prompted concern and debate among educators, students and parents as school districts nationwide wrestle over whether to reopen in the coming weeks and how to safely do so.

David P. Norton, Ph.D., has spent nearly a decade building a collaborative, leading-edge research environment at the University of Florida. But as the number of coronavirus cases began to swell in Florida this spring, Norton and his leadership colleagues faced a daunting challenge: how to pause — and then restart — research at UF’s 16 colleges in Gainesville and dozens of facilities statewide.

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.

Center for Arts in Medicine researchers help explore the effects of social isolation.

An editorial by UF professors, published in the American Journal of Public Health, casts a spotlight on the plight of guest agricultural workers during the pandemic.

In most of the world, much of us are still at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But getting stuck in our home can lead to boredom.

As the novel coronavirus disrupts the usual methods to deliver food from farms to consumers, UF/IFAS Extension agents are helping connect growers with customers.

Gabriela Hamerlinck teaches about pandemics at UF.

A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered to the first group of frontline healthcare workers at UF Health Jacksonville.

It’s a pandemic seemingly without end. The latest coronavirus variant is fueling a surge in cases while Americans worry about ever-more infectious versions to come. The daily news is filled with talk of sickness, overburdened health care providers and the struggle to mask and vaccinate a nation. It’s a recipe for a mental health crisis.