According to UW-Madison officials, the vaccine will target those most vulnerable to COVID-19, including the elderly and those with health conditions that weaken their immune system.
UW connected company to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine
WKOW-TV 27
August 4, 2020
Research
UW-Madison company to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine
NBC-15
The race continues to test and find the first effective COVID-19 vaccine, and a cell and gene product development facility at UW-Madison is helping to produce a vaccine. Waisman Biomanufacturing announced on Monday they are partnering with Heat Biologics to produce a vaccine for phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials.
UW lab partners with North Carolina company on COVID-19 vaccine
Wisconsin State Journal
Alab at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center is partnering with a North Carolina company to make an experimental COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials, the university said Monday.
Study uncovers how schistosome worms trick the host’s immune system
News-Medical.net
Jayhun Lee and his colleagues at the Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, explain in a report in PNAS how a specialised gland in the parasite’s digestive tract, called esophageal gland, is behind an immune-evasion mechanism essential for its survival while in its host.
Higher Education/System
Wisconsin Says It Needs More Federal Aid To Survive Economic Effects Of COVID-19
WUWM
Shortly after, Evers’ administration announced a 5% cut to the state operations budget, saving about $70 million. The largest cut was weathered by the University of Wisconsin System, which had to give up about $41 million. Universities across the state have since implemented employee furloughs to cut costs.
Campus life
UW-Madison launches in-person absentee voting at four campus locations
WISC-TV 3
Students who want to vote via an in-person absentee ballot can do so from noon until 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at several sites on the UW-Madison campus.
In-person absentee voting begins on UW campus
WKOW-TV 27
Based on the advice of Public Health, voting will take place in tents on Engineering Mall, Library Mall, by the Kohl Center, and near the Natatorium.
Early voting available outdoors on UW campus
NBC-15
In-person absentee voting on campus began Monday at Engineering Mall, Library Mall, near the Kohl Center, and by the Natatorium.
In-person absentee voting begins at UW-Madison for fall elections
Wisconsin State Journal
Voters in the city of Madison can complete their absentee ballots in person for the fall elections throughout UW-Madison’s campus as of Monday, according to the city clerk’s office.
Agriculture
State COVID-19 Aid Likely Helped Farmers Left Out of Federal Programs
Wisconsin Public Radio
Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the list is not surprising given the geographic size of the counties and the number of farmers located there.
Health
UW Health looking at new ways to protect frontline health care workers from COVID-19
WISC-TV 3
UW Health is looking into new ways to help protect frontline health care workers from COVID-19.
Heart transplants steady at UW Health during pandemic
WISC-TV 3
UW Health says it performed more heart transplants during the pandemic, which the hospital says defies the national trend.
Hand sanitizer poison calls grow along with FDA toxic list
Fast Company
“We’re being much more vigilant about sanitization and as a result, there’s a lot more of these supplies for people or kids to get into inadvertently. We’ve had some very bad advice from out national leadership. There are people who are doing things that may have been said in jest that they don’t realize, because of who it’s coming from,” says Ed Elder, director of the Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Athletics
Badgers student-athletes request $2 million scholarship fund for students of color
Wisconsin State Journal
Student-athletes at the University of Wisconsin have requested the Badgers athletic department creates an annual $2 million fund to cover costs for students of color.
UW Experts in the News
Doctors warn of lasting COVID-19 effects
NBC-15
Quoted: “People have no way of knowing if they get it if they will have these long term effects, whether they have scarring in their lungs or inflammation of the heart so this disease you don’t want to get because we don’t know enough about it,” said Jeff Pothof, chief quality officer at UW Health.
Sinclair yanked a pandemic conspiracy theory program. But it has stayed in line with Trump on coronavirus.
The Washington Post
The pattern has suggested that the company, controlled by the heirs of founder Julian Sinclair Smith, has harnessed its station group as a political vehicle. “Their purpose seems to be to [promote] Donald Trump and far-right opinion,” said Lewis Friedland, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Fall Election in Turmoil
WORT
As with many of Trump’s comments, it’s difficult to tell whether or not he actually believes he has the power to delay the election, or if he’s simply kicking the beehive. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Madison spoke with Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on August 3, 2020.
Silicon Valley is losing the battle against election misinformation
POLITICO
Researcher Young Mie Kim was scrolling through Instagram in September when she came across a strangely familiar pattern of partisan posts across dozens of social media accounts.
Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in political communication on social media, noticed a number of the seemingly unrelated accounts using tactics favored by the Russia-linked Internet Research Agency, a group that U.S. national security agencies say carried out a multiyear misinformation effort aimed at disrupting the 2016 election — in part by stoking existing partisan hatred.
UW-Madison Related
Do Something: Remembering Dr. Felicia Florine Campbell
Nevada Public Radio
But that “do something,” that’s what got me. That was Dr. Campbell summed up in a two-word cypher. This was a woman who, after getting her BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to join the Marines, just to show she could do it. She was part of the first class of women officer candidates and, once she proved she could hack it, decided it wasn’t something she wanted to do after all and resigned her commission, heading back to academia.