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DuKai photographerGetty Images There is a new variant of COVID-19 circulating in the UK, but there is no reason to worry or panic: the new variant may spread faster but it is not more deadly and there is no reason to believe the vaccines won’t work to stop it. On December 13, Public Health England confirmed that they identified a variant in 1,108 cases of COVID-19, which UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “may be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the earlier strain.” By early January, the variant was found in 37 countries, according to CNN, and in the US states of California, ...

Yes, the Coronavirus is Mutating, and That's No Reason to Freak Out Jason Silverstein There is a new variant of COVID-19 circulating in the UK, but there is no reason to worry or panic: the new variant may spread faster but it is not more deadly and there is no reason to believe the vaccines won’t work to stop it. On December 13, Public Health England confirmed that they identified a variant in 1,108 cases of COVID-19, which UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “may be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the earlier strain.” By early January, the variant was found i...

Character Counts Posted on: December 18, 2020; Updated on: December 18, 2020 It’s been a year. Full stop.  But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty to celebrate, recognize and honor at the University of South Carolina in 2020. There was. And there’s even more to look forward to in 2021. Whether we were developing innovative instruction strategies and aggressive testing protocols to confront the coronavirus, whether we were making our voices heard on social justice ...

College of Arts and Sciences dean steps down to return to teaching Posted on: December 17, 2020; Updated on: December 17, 2020 Lacy Ford is stepping down as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and will return to research and teaching in the 2021 spring semester. Ford has directed the University of South Carolina’s largest and oldest college since 2016. Professor Joel Samuels, interim vice provost for interdisciplinary studies and director of the Rule of Law Collaborative, will serve as interim dean starting Jan. 1...

A new report on health care costs in the United States is making waves for a reason never seen before — health care spending appears to be about 2 percent lower this year than last.  For context, this slight decrease is the first one ever observed since data on health care spending first became available in the 1960s, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation report.  That sounds like a good thing, right? After all, health care costs in the United States are exorbitantly high compared to other countries. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report that total health care ...