Many high school students on day nine or later of their COVID-19 quarantine period tested positive for the virus, a University of Florida study published in JAMA has found.
Researchers at UF departments of environmental and global health and epidemiology received a RAPID grant from NSF to study materials used to protect against COVID-19.
It’s a term we’re going to hear much more frequently during the final chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic — herd immunity.
Choices are affected by how people see the world, whom they trust, their perceptions of risk and consistency of message.
UF Researchers will begin evaluating whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infections.
Three common antihistamine medications have been found in preliminary tests to inhibit infection of cells by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a lifesaver for shelter animals. During the past year, Florida’s animal shelters have collectively saved...
Universities and health care entities in Florida are providing outreach & engagement to minority communities affected by COVID-19.
New research published in Science looks back at how COVID-19 spread over time throughout Brazil, to create a pandemic hotspot.
Imagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living – without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis.
ntists can grow individual cell lines in a dish and study how the coronavirus infects them. And that’s useful as far as it goes. In a sense, however, it’s like studying how a car works by looking at just the carburetor. To gain the most insight, researchers want to study human lung tissue in its full, multidimensional glory, with all cell types represented.
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.