As of Friday, 57 COVID-19 patients were at the hospital, including 16 in intensive care, quadruple the volume from six weeks earlier. If Wisconsin’s coronavirus surge doesn’t turn around, the hospital may soon have to place infected patients in pre-op waiting areas or operating rooms, said Dr. Jeff Pothof, chief quality officer for UW Health.
A study by University of Wisconsin researchers—which had been featured on the National Federation of State High School Associations website—asserts that high school sports in Wisconsin haven’t led to an increase in Covid-19 infections among high school athletes. But Robert N. Golden, Dean of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health, said the views of the study’s lead researcher don’t represent the opinions of the university, that the study hasn’t been peer-reviewed and that its design has limitations. “High schools across the country are working to make the best decisions they can regarding the health and safety of their athletes, and we do not believe this report should play a major role in shaping their decisions,” Dr. Golden said.
The research park is teaming with the Mandel Group of Milwaukee on an ambitious, multi-phase project with 400,000 square feet of new construction, including housing, a hotel, lab/office space, food hall, climbing gym and parking. It marks a major evolution for the 250-acre park, now characterized by modern labs and office buildings surrounded by green spaces and parking lots.
Data collected from Dane and Milwaukee Counties from February through April revealed two different mutations of COVID-19, one from each county. The scientists determined the strain found in Dane County was from Europe, whereas the strain in Milwaukee originated from Asia, according to a UW news release.
The two recipients of the award were Dalila Ricci of UW Madison and Rkia Talbi of UW Platteville. Ricci is planning to graduate in May 2021 with a degree in civil engineering while Talbi plans to graduate in December with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in French.
By the time the Western Collegiate Hockey Association starts playing its 2020-21 season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will have waited more than eight months to play a game.
Despite expanded testing efforts and increased enforcement of local public health guidelines, for weeks the UW-Madison campus has seen a steady increase in the number of reported positive COVID-19 cases.
Jeff Pothof, chief quality officer for UW Health, said UW Hospital on Friday again broke the record for new COVID-19 patients. He wouldn’t provide numbers, but said the patient count is “at least triple what we had back in the spring.”
Romer and Elwood both say by using PPE like masks, the public can slow the spread of Coronavirus.
Coach Tony Granato admits the flashiness quotient of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team has been scaled down between last season and the one that’s about to begin.
While hope remains UW can get its season back on track after this disruption, frustration with the Badgers’ situation is evident in the Big Ten Conference. UW canceled games against Nebraska and Purdue, which not only denied those teams’ players one of their limited opportunities to play this season, but also kept the nearly 100 healthy UW players off the field.
According to a release from the program Saturday morning, the Badgers have had two individuals, one player and one staff member, test positive in the past four days, a significant decrease from the past two weeks. UW has had 17 student-athletes and 13 staff members test positive for the virus since Oct. 21. But this week marked the first time the program has gone a day without a positive test since the outbreak began.
Simple self-care practices can be easily integrated into your daily routine, said Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, noting that you can listen to a guided audio practice while you’re doing chores. “You literally don’t need to take a single extra minute out of your day,” said Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry.
Tony Goldberg, a veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the head of the Kibale EcoHealth Project, said that he has seen the devastation wrought by respiratory diseases among chimpanzees. A deadly outbreak in 2013 at the reserve turned out to be the result of human rhinovirus C, the most common cause of the common cold worldwide. Until then, it had never been seen in chimps.
That’s roughly analogous to the warming the Earth experienced coming out of the last ice age between 19,000 and 8,000 year ago, said Jack Williams, a UW-Madison geologist and geographer who uses fossil records to study how species respond to climate change.
“The polls were clearly off again and in a surprising fashion,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “Many of us expected the polls to be more accurate this year than they were four years ago.”
“I don’t want to say (changing the outcome is) impossible but really borders on impossible,” said UW-Madison Political Law Professor Howard Schweber. “The outcome was not based on a close result in one state, it was based on results in multiple states.”
“What we can say now is a woman’s place is in the House, in the Senate, in the White House…This is a crack in the glass ceiling of American politics,” said Linda Greene, UW-Madison Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law.
He worked for 30 years at the University of Wisconsin in the IT Department and was Field Service Manager.
Hall transitioned to the Badger munitions factory in Baraboo, Wis., as a plant manager for two years, until finding his true career calling in human resources and management training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone confirmed that the motorcyclist seen in the video is Rich Yaeger, senior power plant operator at the university. “UW-Madison is investigating this incident and will take appropriate action when the investigation is complete,” McGlone said “We won’t have further comment until the investigation is done.”
Born Nov. 10, 1920, VandeBerg’s story begins in rural northwestern Wisconsin where he grew up the fourth of five children. He graduated from UW-Madison and taught for a couple of years before becoming a UW Extension agent. VandeBerg eventually earned the nation’s first doctoral degree in Extension Administration. He held a number of leadership positions during his 38-year career with UW Extension.
With the COVID-19 pandemic adding an extra layer of anxiety during a contentious presidential election, this year’s holidays feel even more complicated than they did in 2016. Dr. Shanda Wells understands. Wells is a clinical psychologist on faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The pandemic has been hard for everyone, she said.
Many students commented on the video tagging the university, one user writing “he needs to be fired immediately.”
@bipocatwisco, an Instagram account dedicated to sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color on campus, posted a video Saturday showing a confrontation between a man on a motorcycle and four protesters.The Instagram account identifies the motorcyclist as a university employee.
