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Google’s trends: UofL researcher using internet searches to map the spread of COVID-19
When they’re feeling sick, many people turn to the Internet. They Google their symptoms — headache, chest pain, shortness of breath — hoping to...
Groundbreaking COVID-19 antibody initiative receives $1.5 million to expand testing, launch “virus radar” Gift from James Graham Brown Foundation will aid in safer re-opening of Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky.  – The Co-Immunity Project, a groundbreaking collaboration to track and curb COVID-19 in Kentucky, has received $1.5 million from the James Graham...
Manchester, Ky. Freedom House bedroom
Multi-partner programs serving moms in recovery focus of new UofL study Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Systems for Health grant to support the work
A University of Louisville study will evaluate how health care, public health and social services organizations are working together to improve the health and...
Figure 2, page 14 : Number of active hospitalizations in Jefferson County, KY, by May 6, 2020 (the county’s median length of stay in hospital is used in the calculations)
UofL report shows COVID-19 hospitalizations plateau in Louisville Researchers continue to emphasize social distancing, containment measures essential to phased re-opening
More precise data has informed a second modeling study produced by the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS) and...
Baptist Co-Immunity Projet
Tracking COVID-19 by testing Louisville health care workers JHFE grants $750,000 for project that will plot coronavirus immunity
Just as the Co-Immunity Project has begun its first phase to test Louisville health care workers for COVID-19 and antibodies from the disease that...
The nanofilter prototype
UofL energy researchers using expertise to develop cost-effective, reusable N95 mask
Scientists at the University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research and the Advanced Manufacturing Institute of Science & Technology (AMIST) have partnered...
Spring commencement is Saturday at the KFC Yum! Center.
UofL’s spring commencement goes virtual
May 6, 2020 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Graduation ceremonies filled with traditional garb and music, uplifting speeches and time-honored rituals are the norm at this time...
New data suggest Group B Streptococcus infections are more common than previously recognized Study shows high rates of GBS infection among the elderly, African Americans and people with chronic conditions
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Detailed results were published this week of the first study to show the burden of both invasive and non-invasive Group B...
Projected numbers of total deaths by week under different social distancing scenarios. The status quo in this figure assumes the social distancing measures became effective on March 31 and decreased transmission by 65% (Figure 2.6 in the report).
Study finds social distancing measures in Louisville are saving lives Also warns that without extensive testing, tracing and quarantining, as many as 900 lives could be lost and about 2,000 more hospitalized
A new modeling study by the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health...
Vuzix M400 smart glasses
Delivering health care through a new lens: smart glasses
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the expansion of telemedicine, and as part of that expansion, faculty at the University of Louisville are piloting...