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.
A look back at the contributions of UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute to campus-wide COVID-19 research.
A team of volunteer UF Health medical professionals together with personnel from The Villages Health primary care network evaluated 2,280 people.
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.
It’s a term we’re going to hear much more frequently during the final chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic — herd immunity.
UF Researchers will begin evaluating whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infections.
UF Health researcher Barry Byrne, M.D., Ph.D. is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
Students, staff and faculty get swabbed to check for potential COVID-19 infections. Beneath their feet, another testing system churns away, searching for the virus in UF’s wastewater.
When the virus that causes COVID-19 enters the body, it hijacks cellular proteins and suppresses the human inflammatory response, allowing...
Despite more than 450,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far in the U.S., nearly a third of Americans say they definitely or probably will not get the vaccine, according to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey.
UF Department of Urban and Regional Planning Professor Ruth Steiner presented ideas pertaining to urban design in the COVID-19 era.
UF researchers sifted through several thousand studies on human coronaviruses related to the novel SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19, with the goal of learning from the past to help shape the future.