With hundreds of coronavirus test specimens now coming in daily to UW-Madison’s Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, the lab stayed open over the weekend and has more than tripled its capacity.
Dave O’Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is working with colleagues to test the usefulness of monkeys in the study of coronavirus treatments. He said that a Chinese group had already published some data on rhesus macaques and he had heard that more results from other labs around the world would be coming soon.
In 2016, Charles Raison, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, published an intriguing study of 30 patients with clinical depression. Half of them rested on a bed while an infrared heat-lamp array raised their body temperature to 101.3 degrees.
The new study, led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is among the first to look at how people with the syndrome fare later in life. (The researchers declined to comment.)
The all-out effort to contain COVID-19 or minimize its consequences is something that hasn’t been seen since the “Spanish” flu pandemic in 1918-19, which killed an estimated 50 million people, including 675,000 in the U.S., said Richard Keller, a UW-Madison professor of the history of medicine.
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A Wisconsin State Journal analysis of UW campuses’ records logs found wide variation in the amount of time it takes for universities to hand over documents, with the University of Wisconsin System taking longer than its campuses that keep records logs.
With in-person classes suspended through at least April 10, University of Wisconsin-Madison students have plenty of logistical challenges to tackle to continue their studies over the next month.
Organizers of the 2020 Wisconsin Film Festival, set to begin April 2, canceled the event out of concern for public safety in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
UW-Madison announced Friday that a School of Veterinary Medicine employee tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“Some of the reporting classes will be using materials that already exist, so finding maybe a televised speech and having students cover that speech,” James E. Burges Chair in Journalism Ethics Kathleen Bartzen said. “And then sometimes it’s going to be making use of what they can take advantage of any environment they’re in.”
The university is citing concerns over parents scrambling to find childcare while schools are closed.
The financial repercussions of the virus have not been fully realized, but the Herald is taking precautions to make sure the decreased advertising revenue a nationwide shutdown can cause will not affect the quality of our coverage.
Joe Lauer, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said some farmers were forced to leave corn in the field after snow started to fill up fields.
In a statement on the band’s website, officials said that the university’s suspension of face-to-face classes would prohibit the Badger Band from meeting to rehearse for at least four weeks.
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted state laws do not explicitly say the governor can suspend most laws during health emergencies but also do not expressly prohibit doing so.
“This seems to be a gray area that is not spelled out fully in state law,” he said by email.
Quoted: “We’re currently in a worrisome situation because this is a disease for which people do not have natural immunity from past exposure, and there’s currently no vaccine and no treatment,” said Vicki Bier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in risk analysis for homeland security.
Ajay K. Sethi, associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expressed support for the development of monoclonal antibodies.
City, county, school and University of Wisconsin Hospital officials held a press conference at the Madison Municipal Building on Sunday where they announced additional measures designed to control the pandemic at the local level.
UW-Health is evaluating patient care appointments and procedures to determine which ones can be safely postponed, UW-Health spokesperson Emily Kumlien said in a statement Saturday.
“The things I said in it are really basic public health hygiene strategies,” Jones, who is an assistant scientist at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory. “What we can do is wash our hands and don’t touch your face. Actually, I said, Don’t pick your nose. I’ve been joking a lot that I’m the person who told America not to pick its nose.”
We are infectious disease specialists at UW-Madison — one an epidemiologist and mother of two boys at Van Hise Elementary School, the other a global health pediatric infectious diseases physician. Out of concern for the safety of our community during this critical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask all parents (who have the means to do so) to please voluntarily keep your children home from school, starting on Monday.
Action taken in the months since the rejection of the UHS budget has included everything from the creation of a Mental Health Task Force, expanded hours of operation on certain days and the hiring of 13 new counselors.
The Sheboygan Lutheran boys basketball team’s coaches had the film already rolling for Randolph, its scheduled opponent in Saturday’s sectional final.
Quoted: Shilagh Mirgain, a psychologist at UW Health, says it’s natural to feel anxious, angry and stressed considering everything that’s going on.
Noted: Wetselaar, who was 33 when he died in the Molson Coors shootings Feb. 26, grew up in the Milwaukee area. He graduated from Pius XI High School in 2005 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a degree in political science. He met his wife while at UW-Madison, where they both worked at a restaurant.
Beth worked for the University of Wisconsin for 31 years until her retirement in 1999.
Over the years, employed by the University of Wisconsin, Gene was an artist and worked in the Bureau of Audio-Visual Instruction, Editorial and Communications Services, and the Department of Agricultural Journalism. He also taught drawing, layout and illustration at the UW.
Elizabeth Pulvermacher, a University of Wisconsin student, arrived Saturday at O’Hare from Madrid, where she had been studying and spent hours in line. The customs process made her feel “unsafe,” she said.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
