Study: Lost wages from long COVID total $12.7 billion in just one year
January 15, 2026
UF Health study finds long COVID led to billions in lost wages.
Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, +3 more
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UF Health pediatrics expert answers questions about COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5
June 20, 2022
With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizing the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for children as young as 6 months of age, UF Health pediatrics…
Department of Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, +4 more
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UF study: Post-COVID mortality risk may be caused by effects of high inflammation during illness
May 12, 2022
A University of Florida study sheds new light on the reason people who recover from a bout of severe COVID-19 are still at increased risk for death in the year…
College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, +2 more
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Endemic COVID-19 could be one to 10 years away
February 23, 2022
If you donned your mask today and felt a primal urge to yell “When will this pandemic END-emic already?!” take heart. You are not alone. On the eve of the…
College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, Emerging Pathogens Institute, +2 more
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UF Health joins national study to test COVID-19 treatments
December 7, 2021
Researchers at UF Health and the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network have begun recruiting patients to a national study to learn if existing medications can…
Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, +4 more
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Patients who recover from severe COVID-19 still have significant risk of death, UF study finds
December 1, 2021
Patients who have recovered from severe COVID-19 have more than twice the mortality risk within the year following their illness than people who have not…
College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, +2 more
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Coronavirus ‘spillovers’ more frequent than thought
November 17, 2021
University of Florida researchers have detected past instances of people becoming infected with a type of coronavirus that was until now thought only to be…
College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, Emerging Pathogens Institute, +2 more
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In the fight against long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, vaccination still best preventive option
September 28, 2021
The symptoms of COVID-19 can be terrible enough in the days and weeks after infection by the coronavirus. Many people, however, soon discover the microscopic…
College of Medicine, +2 more
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UF Health study: Mutation patterns in dominant coronavirus UK variant show new target for existing drugs
March 17, 2021
An antibiotic used to treat leprosy is among a handful of existing drugs that could attack and slow the spread of the United Kingdom variant of the SARS-CoV-2…
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, +3 more
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UF Health physician tackles misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines
March 15, 2021
The novel coronavirus is still sickening Americans by the tens of thousands. But three vaccines are now available to stem the pandemic, and for many, hope is…
College of Medicine, +2 more
