COVID-19

UF researchers have launched a new study to understand the extent to which children play a role in the spread of COVID-19.

While you have probably heard of the conception of the high-capacity COVID-19 research lab built within just 10 days by various PHHP faculty, staff and students, it is likely you have not been able to get a glimpse of what it is like to work in a COVID-19 lab.

A boyhood experience set Dr. John Lednicky on a road to make an outsized impact during the current coronavirus crisis.

Once COVID-19 began its spread across Florida, and as testing became less and less accessible, a team of researchers, students and lab technicians collaborated to build a high capacity testing research lab in the Emerging Pathogens Institute with only a 10-day timeline. To read more about the behind the…

Behind the scenes in mid-March, a group of researchers, students and lab technicians came together and built a high throughput testing lab.

UF faculty members and students answered the state's call for epidemiologists.

Researchers propose a core protocol for conducting clinical trials during a disease outbreak.

Dr. John Lednicky can pull live viruses out of thin air — and grow them. His past decades of inquiry into coronaviruses have positioned him as a go-to experts on the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 pathogen.

Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues found that the Wuhan travel ban may have only delayed the epidemic’s spread by three to five days in mainland China.

Just how bad might this outbreak become? Virologist and public health expert Dr. John Lednicky explains.