As COVID-19 vaccinations continue to be administered around the world, a coordinated global response to viral variants that may threaten the protection…
University of Florida Health researchers are joining an ambitious global effort led by The Rockefeller Foundation to better track the coronavirus and its…
Alachua County residents can help take a step toward herd immunity now that 12- to 15- year-old children can get a COVID-19 vaccine locally. Anyone over the…
The University of Florida will attempt to vaccinate more than 1,000 students as part of a landmark national study to determine whether young people who have…
Many high school students on day nine or later of their COVID-19 quarantine period tested positive for the virus, a University of Florida study published in…
And now, there are three. Johnson & Johnson recently received emergency use authorization for its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from the U.S. Food and Drug…
The novel coronavirus is doing what viruses do — in fact, what all life does. It’s mutating and creating new variants. This is evolution 101. Much of the…
It isn’t the “kiss” that sickens. The parasite that can slowly kill lurks in the feces, and not the bite, of the triatomine insect, commonly called the kissing…
The University of Florida led the way in indoor mask compliance among six universities participating in a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Some scientists have likened the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic to a war requiring a marshaling of all available resources. The fight now comes to a…
A comparatively small but crucial piece of the massive rollout efforts designed to get the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the manufacturer into the…
Three common antihistamine medications have been found in preliminary tests to inhibit infection of cells by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, University…