As part of the White House’s Operation Warp Speed initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selected UF Health and...
A UF virologist assisted a team of medical researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City with interpreting microscopic images of tissue samples from COVID-19 victims.
Gabriela Hamerlinck teaches about pandemics at UF.
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.
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.
The University of Florida led the way in indoor mask compliance among six universities participating in a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of mask use on campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Lednicky's past decades of inquiry into coronaviruses have positioned him as one of UF’s go-to experts on the coronavirus.
Dr. Emre Tepe is studying the spatial and temporal relationships between COVID-19 cases and urban characteristics.
A team of researchers at the University of Florida are using mathematical models to evaluate the impact of current and future COVID-19 interventions.
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.
Families are beginning to ask more questions about when COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to children younger than 16, and...
A comparatively small but crucial piece of the massive rollout efforts designed to get the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from...