Having secured an approval for human trials, Covaxin has reached a more advanced phase. Not only is BBIL in close contact with locally developed institutes, but they are also in a global collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and vaccine maker FluGen.
Over half of the characters depicted in children’s books are white, according to the statistics compiled in 2018 by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His team created a Listening Post for people who live in Wisconsin and the UW community to ask questions and offer ideas.
At risk is University of Wisconsin-Madison’s plan to welcome students back to campus this fall. Jeff Pothof, University of Wisconsin Health chief quality and safety officer, said if local health officials don’t try to stop the spread of the virus in Dane County, in-person instruction could be called off. “If we’re unable to get on top of this current spike and it continues to accelerate, we may be in a position where it won’t make sense to be holding in-person classes,” he said. “It becomes a risk that most of us shouldn’t be taking with our children.”
Both the city and UW-Madison have similar orders in place to ensure people are distancing properly, which will be especially important come late August when the university’s 30,000 students return to campus. “We have been and will be working to ensure people are abiding by the campus order when they are on campus property,” Marc Lovicott of UW-Madison’s Police Department, said. “We have and will issue citations for blatant and/or multiple violations.”
Madison East graduate and UW-Madison senior Sirena Flores has started a higher education GoFundMe for Tony Robinson’s youngest brother, Malik Robinson, a recent graduate of Madison La Follette High School who is pursuing higher education.
College towns across Wisconsin like La Crosse and Oshkosh have also seen a spike in cases of COVID-19. Dane County health officials said at the press conference that they are working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to change behavior, and will also have a social media campaign targeted at young people.
UnityPoint at Home, UnityPoint Health-Meriter’s home health care agency, has become part of Chartwell, UW Health’s home health care agency.
Health scares always spawn scurrilous stories. But with covid-19, “there’s lots of opportunity for misinformation,” said Dhavan Shah, a professor of mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department said its relationship with Under Armour is still “strong” as the apparel provider seeks to cut ties with some college teams.
“It is important for white children to see people of color as being knowledgeable and authoritative,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a teacher educator who most recently was on the faculty at UW-Madison. “The stuff we are seeing happening in our streets today is, I think, a direct result of young white people saying, ‘I was never really taught to value these people’s lives.’”
