Skyrocketing unemployment, expected declines in tax revenue and other economic problems associated with the coronavirus crisis could spell trouble for Wisconsin’s public universities, which rely on state money to stay afloat.
Quoted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the project last weekend and is expected to host one of the clinical trials.
The work in Madison will be led by William Hartman, UW Health assistant professor of anesthesiology. Hartman said Madison will be one of the clinical trial sites, though he could not say how many patients will participate.
“I think we can be very hopeful in that it has exhibited success with previous coronaviruses including SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome),” Hartman said, referring to the use of survivor plasma.
Features UW–Madison spokesman Eric Hamilton.
Two UW-Madison researchers are working with a pair of bio-tech companies to develop a possible vaccine for the coronavirus.
Rob Cramer, University of Wisconsin System vice president for administration, estimates the state’s 13 universities and branch campuses will refund around $78 million for unused housing and dining services. He said refunds for residence halls and meal-plans aren’t uncommon, but the magnitude of refunds going back to students this spring is unprecedented.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said that a group of students who went on spring break mid-March to Nashville and Gulf Shores, Alabama have tested positive for COVID-19, reported KIRO7.
After the coronavirus outbreak caused the university to cancel in-person classes, the couple switched gears. Connected digitally with their students, Barson and Rodriguez have been working to finish the class project in a digital space.
Quoted: James Conway, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute, said allowing people to gather at polling locations during Tuesday’s spring election will also damage the effectiveness of state leaders’ message to stay away from each other to blunt the spread of coronavirus.
“It just seems really irresponsible to make this one giant exception,” Conway said in an interview. “I was a little naive a week or so ago in thinking, ‘Oh, they’ve got to realize they’ve got to delay.’ … And then time has crept on and I’m like, really? I am very concerned.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison police investigators were working Thursday to determine why a respected physician and her husband were targeted and killed.
The 18-year-old man arrested in the slayings of a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband is known to the family, police said Friday.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Ali’jah J. Larrue, 18, was booked on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre.
A second arrest was made by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department in the double homicide at the UW Arboretum.
Asecond suspect was arrested late Friday in the double homicide of Dr. Beth Potter and her husband, Robin Carre, whom UW Police believe were shot by the pair of 18-year-old men.
Shepler and almost her entire family had been seeing Dr. Beth Potter for decades. She says she can’t wrap her head around what happened Tuesday morning.
Ali’jah Jawuan Larrue, 18, was arrested by the UW Madison Police Department at 11:19 p.m. and was booked at the Dane County Safety Building on Saturday morning at 2:21 a.m., according to the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Dr Claudia Reardon is a sports psychiatrist who works at the University of Wisconsin with athletes from multiple sports and is part of the IOC Mental Health Working Group. She spoke to Athlete365 about how athletes around the globe can cope with the current situation surrounding the coronavirus.
It may come across quite strongly, but one word I would use to describe what some athletes are going through right now is grief. We’re talking about the loss of the Olympics and other major sport competitions. However temporary that loss may be, it’s still significant.
According to UW Health spokeswoman Emily Kumlien, UW Hospital is currently seeing “lower than usual” numbers of patients as the hospital puts off procedures and visits until the situation stabilizes.
“Traditionally, the ethics of medicine is, we always do everything we can for every patient in front of us,” said Dr. Norman Fost, a retired pediatrician who founded UW-Madison’s bioethics program and heads up the workgroup. “In an allocation crisis like this, that can no longer be the rule. We have to revert to a public notion of ethics — what’s in the interest of the greatest number, for the community.”
These days, Maggie Musgrave puts her anxiety, uncertainty and gratitude in a box. A pizza box. Musgrave’s husband, Andrew Pfaff, is an anesthesiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Hospital. His group of doctors is the “airway team,” responsible for intubating patients and keeping them breathing during surgery.
In a Facebook post, UW Health said the two systems are banding together to collect hand-sewn masks. In that effort, they are calling anyone who wants to make masks to review best practices, and to “start sewing,” according to the post.
The pandemic has shown us just how important “lunch ladies” are, and we owe it to them to remember this lesson when school is back in session.Jennifer Gaddis is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Society & Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools.
As the novel coronavirus pandemic besieges the United States, more and more observers are suggesting that November’s votes should be cast by mail — allowing the least possible in-person contact, reducing health risks to both voters and poll workers. (Barry Burden, co-authors)
Quoted: The election is set to proceed on Tuesday, despite warnings from one of the state’s top health experts that in-person voting may undo efforts to control the spread of the virus. “It just seems really irresponsible to make this one giant exception,” warmed James Conway, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
Quoted: The election is set to proceed on Tuesday, despite warnings from one of the state’s top health experts that in-person voting may undo efforts to control the spread of the virus. “It just seems really irresponsible to make this one giant exception,” warmed James Conway, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
Quoted: Not only is social distancing impractical in prisons, they are places where “contagion is hard to avoid,” said Cecelia Klingele, an associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in criminal justice administration.
“People are given very little access in many prisons and jails to hygiene supplies from soap to toothpaste. Often, we ask prisoners to buy individual supplies,” she said. “There’s no easy access. They’re not washing their hands frequently and not bathing as much as we would hope.”
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said late ballots — those returned after Election Day — tend to favor Democrats, who tend to be younger, more transient and newer to voting.
Quoted: In addition, “I think folks also have less time in a day, trying to juggle working remotely, caring for kids, [and] trying to find alternate employment,” stated University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jeremy Morris. Many parents are working around the clock to entertain their children and put food on the table, and it might not be possible for them to sit and listen to a podcast.
The risk of contracting the disease by picking up a newspaper is “exceedingly low,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Health. Public health authorities tend to be most concerned with the “main routes of transmission,” such as respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, she said.
We asked an expert at UW Health about the risk of holding an in-person election right now.
Though born in Allentown, Penn. in 1933, he considered Wisconsin home from the year he arrived in 1965 to work as journals manager at the University of Wisconsin Press.
Her belief in the value of education brought her back to Madison, where she earned a Ph.D. As Program Director and Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies she was a shining example of The Wisconsin Idea.
Perez has deep ties to Wisconsin. His daughter will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring, but the ceremony, like so many others, has been postponed. His wife is a UW-Madison graduate and they were married in Milwaukee, near where she grew up.
