As the new vaccines developed to combat COVID-19 begin to flow into communities around the country, myths and misinformation are coursing through the general population as well.
UF CJC today announced it has received a $30,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to study the financial state of college newspapers during COVID-19.
Efforts are in underway to speed up the process on COVID-19 research for UF Health researchers to evaluate a drug treatment for coronavirus.
Patients with a vitamin D deficiency were four times more likely to be COVID-19 positive than those with a sufficient amount of the crucial vitamin.
A lack of coordination in measures to control COVID-19 may accelerate cyclical outbreaks, according to a team of UF researchers.
Christina Boucher, Ph.D., associate professor in the UF Department of CISE, has received a $1.2 million grant from the NSF.
Thirty UF faculty members and students answered the call when the state of Florida needed to drastically boost the number of epidemiologists working with health departments around the state.
Surveys conducted by UF economists show the varying impacts COVID-19 has across different industries.
Universities and health care entities in Florida are providing outreach & engagement to minority communities affected by 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.
UF Health researchers begin developing an at-home test for coronavirus.
“You need large numbers and multiple products in many different settings tested in many different kinds of people to assess whether they’re really safe and effective,” said Ira Longini, a professor at UF PHHP and UF Medicine.