COVID-19

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.

Cindy Prins, Ph.D., offers infection control assessments for UF entities who aim to resume activities throughout campus.

New research published in Science looks back at how COVID-19 spread over time throughout Brazil, to create a pandemic hotspot.

University of Florida virus experts are gathering genomic sequences from coronaviruses around the world to drive artificial intelligence (AI) research that could predict future spread and outbreaks of this and other strains.

A lack of coordination in measures to control COVID-19 may accelerate cyclical outbreaks, according to a team of UF researchers.

A comparatively small but crucial piece of the massive rollout efforts designed to get the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from...

The trial is part of the national HERO Registry centered on COVID-19 investigations.

From UF Public Relations Department, Rita Men outlines the 5 ways that CEOs can communicate to their teams during a crisis like COVID-19.

A new University of Florida epidemiological study finds that while children are less susceptible to COVID-19, when they do become infected they can be nearly 60% more likely than adults over 60 to infect exposed family members.