“It’s difficult to know for sure,” says Sonja Rasmussen, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Florida. “But I think as Florida is surging, we are going to see more cases in everybody.”…
It’s been about five months since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Alachua County. Last week, the county announced a new way to combat the virus — through a committee of local health experts.
The University of Florida’s chapter of Right Care Alliance will host a public meeting discussing how to safely reopen schools. Attendees will hear from local infectious disease experts and the Alachua County Public Schools Superintendent.
The Alachua County Health Department (ACHD) has formalized a committee of local science and medical experts that have augmented State of Florida Department of Health guidance to the ACHD since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the start of the new school year quickly approaches in the United States, parents of children with diabetes are trying to figure out how their child’s needs will be met when classes begin.
Discussion with Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Florida who previously worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years, for a medical perspective of children returning to school…
As the new school year rapidly approaches, political pressure is growing for states to reopen classrooms for in-person learning, but public health experts say much uncertainty remains about how the novel coronavirus impacts children and how easily they transmit it to others.
Researchers are still trying to understand how SARS-CoV-2 can potentially travel to an unborn fetus during and right after pregnancy.
Mid-to-late July is usually a time when American families gear up for a new school year. It’s filled with back-to-school sales, supply lists and a return to the structure an eight-hour school day provides.
A small study in Italy has found evidence suggesting that, in pregnant women, the coronavirus can reach their fetus.
