Researchers aimed to better understand the feasibility of achieving herd immunity yet found evidence that shows that immunity itself cannot be reached through antibody production alone.
The study will use the data collected to predict how well the vaccine can prevent asymptomatic infection and the transmission of the virus to others.
U.Va. Health researchers have created a software that uses AI to estimate a patient's relative risk by combining physiological data from thousands of previous patients with a current patient's physiological state.
Local resources U.Va. Latino Health Initiative and Sin Barreras pursue health promotion and disease prevention across the Charlottesville Latinx population.
Only about a quarter of the 285,725 vaccines the Commonwealth received have been recorded as administered as of Jan. 12, affecting statewide and U.Va. Health staff.
Upon receiving a grant from the NIH and joining a national consortium of research institutions, University researchers are taking part in an unprecedented research project centered around the biological effects of exercise.
The Patient Student Partnership program officially began at the School of Medicine in 2018 and functions by pairing each medical student in the entering class with a patient undergoing long-term care within the U.Va. Health System.
Reaching successful infection control is heavily dependent on the compliance of students with procedures. These procedures include informing staff about contact, promptly testing for the virus and agreeing to quarantine or isolate if requested.
The consolidated funds of $178,000 have been donated to the U.Va. Children’s Hospital transplant program, serving to facilitate a multidisciplinary care approach in addition to mitigating costs of heart, kidney and liver transplants for pediatric patients’ families.
