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Last updated October 22
A local Charlottesville biotech company created a new blood test that can predict whether or not a patient will have a severe reaction to COVID-19.
The COVID-19 tracker first launched in August 2020.
The weekly average of COVID-19 cases per day for students, faculty and staff have gone down, with an average of 11.71 cases per day reported Monday and an average of 7.57 cases reported Thursday. Currently, a total of 24 individuals are hospitalized for COVID-19 at U.Va. Health.
According to Director of Hospital Epidemiology Dr. Costi Sifri, the number of students who were unvaccinated and had been participating in weekly surveillance testing was only slightly over 100 students.
Currently, a total of 24 individuals are hospitalized for COVID-19 at U.Va. Health.
The seven-day average positivity rate for COVID-19 was 13.79 percent Thursday—up from 5.60 percent this time last week.
The University’s COVID-19 Tracker will continue to be updated, even though the University has phased out its saliva testing program due to a lack of demand, according to University spokesperson Brian Coy.
Masks will no longer be required in classrooms or non-clinical U.Va. Health facilities effective Monday.
Parents continue to assess risk for their unvaccinated children as mask mandates and vaccine mandates remain uncertain for the near future in Virginia.
Charlottesville and Albemarle were reclassified because in both localities the new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over the last seven days are below 200.
On Jan. 11, at the peak of the wave of cases caused by the Omicron variant, the seven-day average was 74.43 new cases per day — the seven-day case average has fallen 87.7 percent since that high.
Researchers in the U.Va. School of Engineering have developed a method of mass-producing effective and reusable cloth masks.
The weekly average of COVID-19 cases per day for both students and faculty saw a large drop over the past week.
The University said it will work with schools and units on an individual basis should any implementation issues arise before many of the masking requirements are lifted.
There are 278 active cases of COVID-19 within the University community, 228 of which are students and 50 of which are faculty and staff, per the University’s COVID-19 tracker.
There are 433 active cases of COVID-19 within the University community.
The zero new cases in students or faculty and staff over the weekend followed a total of 26 new cases between Feb. 6 and Saturday.
The weekly average of COVID-19 cases per day for both students and faculty saw a slight uptick over the past week, with an average of 28.43 cases per day reported on Tuesday and an average of 36.57 cases on Thursday. There are a total of 104 individuals currently hospitalized for COVID-19 at U.Va. Health.
No faculty or staff member tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend through the University.
There are currently 376 active cases of COVID-19 in the University, 51 of which were reported Tuesday.
