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New ±«Óătv Analysis Predicts a Serious Hospital Bed Shortage in Hillsborough County in the Absence of Social Distancing
A new report outlines the severity of COVID-19âs impact on hospitals in Hillsborough County if measures arenât taken to follow social distancing guidelines. Researchers from the ±«Óătv applied a model that demonstrates the demand for hospital beds could significantly exceed their availability unless social distancing measures are widely followed for two months.
April 3, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
Accounting 101: What Accountants Should Tell You About the COVID-19 Stimulus Checks
The COVID-19 crisis, spreading across the globe, infecting hundreds of thousands of people and devastating economies in its path, has come at crunch time for U.S. taxpayers. April 15, typically the deadline for filing income taxes was just one more thing to think about during this âstay-at-homeâ mandate.
April 2, 2020COVID-19, University News
A lab simulation led by the ±«Óătv College of Marine Science begins to plug holes in decades-long gaps of knowledge about trace metal chemistry.
April 2, 2020Research and Innovation
±«Óătv Offers Deposit Waivers, Extends Admissions Deadlines to Help Families Impacted by Coronavirus
The ±«Óătv is implementing several changes designed to provide relief for incoming students and their families whose lives are being disrupted by effects of the coronavirus outbreak.
April 2, 2020University News
±«Óătv Study Questions Accuracy of the âFerguson Effectâ
Public criticism and distrust of police following the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has had a minimal impact on officer morale nationwide. This is in sharp contrast to the âFerguson Effect,â a term used to blame a rising crime rate in major cities and officer withdrawal from proactive policing.
April 1, 2020Research and Innovation
The current coronavirus outbreak is not preventing ±«Óătv Health patients from seeing their providers. As the pandemic grew last week and most of Florida shifted to working remotely â and many health care facilities halted in-person patient visits â ±«Óătv Health quickly ramped up its telemedicine capabilities across the faculty practice.
March 31, 2020COVID-19, ±«Óătv Health
When Susan M. Perry, PhD, CRNA, ARNP, FAAN, served as an infection control officer in the U.S. Air Force in the 1990s, she never predicted that the skills she was honing three decades ago would one day save her husband and herself during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.
March 31, 2020COVID-19, ±«Óătv Health
The ±«Óătv (±«Óătv) Health, Formlabs, a leading 3D printing company, and Northwell Health, New Yorkâs largest healthcare provider, today announced they have successfully produced and tested a 3D printed nasal swab to address emergency shortages that hospitals and health care teams may face as testing for COVID-19 increases.
March 30, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
±«Óătv Medical Engineers to Mass Produce Face Shields for Protection Against Coronavirus
The ±«Óătv Mini-Circuits Design for X Laboratory has developed an assembly line to create face shields. Michael Celestin and his team are producing one per minute and hope over the next month to manufacture 10,000 face shields to be donated to Tampa General Hospital, ±«Óătvâs primary teaching hospital and the ±«Óătv Health faculty practice.
March 30, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
Identifying the âAt-Riskâ: ±«Óătv Faculty and Students Helping Stop the Spread of COVID-19
More than 60 ±«Óătv students and faculty members are dispersed across the state of Florida to assist the Florida Department of Health in identifying people whoâve come in contact with someone whoâs tested positive for the coronavirus. Theyâre focused on finding those considered âhigh-riskâ, meaning someone who may have attended the same gathering, or were in close proximity.
March 30, 2020COVID-19, University News
Grocery Stores and Other Retailers Forced to Cope with Consumer Demand during COVID-19 Outbreak
In normal times, shoppers browse the aisles of the grocery store, pick what they want or need, toss it into the cart and move on their way. They never consider the process it takes to get that product onto the shelf. But since the COVID-19 outbreak and spread, a greater importance and awareness has been placed on the pre-sale process known as supply chain management.
March 27, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
Research of ±«Óătv Civil and Environmental Engineering professor in Sustainability Nature
Mauricio Arias, Ph.D., has spent the last decade conducting research into the effects of dams built on some of the most biodiverse rivers in the world, and his latest paper could help guide hydropower development in the Amazon.
March 26, 2020Research and Innovation