COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory infection, but experts have suspected the virus can also infiltrate the eyes. Now, scientists have more direct evidence of it.
"There’s a lot that we don’t know, but we’re trying to get that information and see if it can inform policy as we move ahead," Lauzardo said.
With their studies all but shut down during the COVID-19 outbreak, UF/IFAS researchers in Balm are turning their attention to helping fight the coronavirus.
“By the time someone arrives at the hospital and is severely ill, you can assume they were infected two to three weeks ago,” said Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida.
WASHINGTON — Useful Covid-19 information isn’t reaching the Instagram generation.
The information can signal the presence of infection among students, almost a week before there are diagnosed cases.
America might have faced a high death total in the coronavirus pandemic no matter what it did. But the one thing that could have made a difference was more, better, and faster testing.
Infectious disease specialist and physician Kartikeya Cherabuddi, who has treated COVID-19 patients, explains what medical doctors monitor and how they treat patients, from the early days after an infection and the critical days that follow.
As part of the White House’s Operation Warp Speed initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selected UF Health and...
UF travel professor Lori Pennington-Gray talks about travel anxiety and the return of business in the travel industry.
"The most important question we're trying to determine is how any people have the virus but are showing no symptoms at all," Dr. Michael Lauzardo, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida said.
UF researcher Derek A. T. Cummings contributes to study published in nature.com on SARS-CoV-2.