The COVID-19 pandemic has been a lifesaver for shelter animals. During the past year, Florida’s animal shelters have collectively saved...
Recent work contributed to by UF mathematician Burton Singer seeks to estimate how COVID-19 vaccination campaigns will affect the future trajectory of the pandemic in the US.
A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms. A third or more of these cases would need to be isolated, in addition to most symptomatic cases, to quell the pandemic.
Calistus Ngonghala, a UF math professor, published a study on how contributions like wearing masks and social distancing could affect the spread of COVID-19.
New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase people’s risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African...
Infectious disease specialist and physician Kartikeya Cherabuddi, explains what medical doctors monitor and how they treat patients.
Recent research shows that about 80% of those who took up gardening since the beginning of COVID-19 will continue the pastime in 2021.
It’s a term we’re going to hear much more frequently during the final chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic — herd immunity.
Guilt and shame are two prevailing emotions surrounding COVID-19. This guilt stems in part from the fact that anyone could be a potential carrier of the virus.
For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought plenty of novelty to our lives, like wearing masks and physical distancing. One aspect, though, gave financial economists déjà vu, and it’s looking a lot like 2008.
In January 2020, rumors of a nascent disease proliferating through Wuhan, China were spreading. Tom Hladish, a quantitative epidemiologist at...
Meanwhile, an internal report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and more transmissible than the viruses that cause seasonal flu, the common cold and Ebola.