In a year unlike any other due to COVID-19, who can you trust when it comes to real-time information regarding a global pandemic?
Christina Boucher, Ph.D., associate professor in the UF Department of CISE, has received a $1.2 million grant from the NSF.
A team of virologists who study viruses in bats work toward a test for a public health study to understand its development in older adults.
Patients with severe COVID-19 twice as likely to require future hospitalizations for other illnesses
People who have recovered from a bout of severe COVID-19 may still have reason for concern about their health.
Choices are affected by how people see the world, whom they trust, their perceptions of risk and consistency of message.
Coronaviruses common to animals may ‘spillover’ into people more frequently than once thought, according to new research from UF and Haitian investigators.
University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers studying the safety of two classes of drugs touted as potential therapeutics for COVID-19 report mixed results.
A team of researchers at the University of Florida are using mathematical models to evaluate the impact of current and future COVID-19 interventions.
Convalescent plasma does not effectively prevent the progression of COVID-19 from a mild to severe form of the disease in high-risk patients, according to the results of a national clinical trial that involved University of Florida Health.
UF Health physicians put themselves at risk to provide critical medical relief around the globe.
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.
The technique uses a harmless virus to help fight a harmful virus. In this case, the harmless virus is used to package and deliver a gene from SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The gene therapy vaccine can’t replicate on its own but is potent enough to trigger a beneficial, antivirus response from the immune system.