UW researchers are analyzing the viral samples to determine whether there was one point of introduction that led to the spread or if the outbreak included multiple clusters of the virus. That could take weeks to find out because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now involved in the analysis of the outbreak.
UW-Madison required residents of two large dorms to get tested Monday as the number of COVID-19 cases on campus rises to a level unseen since September.
The Black Voice’s budget was approved after the commitee made amendements to reduce the budget to 2%.
UW-Madison mandated testing for all residents of Witte and Sellery Halls on Monday, Nov. 9 amid rising positivity rates across campus.
Noting UW Hospital just opened a seventh COVID wing and may have to begin treating patients in waiting rooms, Rhodes-Conway urged residents to take responsibility before the health care system is overwhelmed.
The pharmaceutical company paused trial in September due to participant’s unexplained illness.
Dr. Jonathan Temte, associate dean for public health and community engagement at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, sits on a state subcommittee planning for the eventual COVID-19 vaccine distribution. He said there are numerous people in Wisconsin working hard to come up with the fairest and most ethical approach to distributing a COVID-19 vaccine to those who are at highest risk and those performing essential functions.
After coronavirus forced the cancellations of its past two games, the University of Wisconsin is getting ready for its return to the gridiron this weekend.
The University of Wisconsin football team announced Monday that it is anticipating playing Saturday at Michigan after a COVID-19 outbreak within the program caused two games to be canceled. It will continue monitoring the team’s COVID-19 testing closely to ensure that can happen, but the team began regular practices Monday morning.
The Holiday Face-Off tournament at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum was officially unveiled on a Tuesday morning last March. A week later, the sports world was starting to shut down because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases.
UW should make efforts to track recoveries, long-term symptoms of infected students.
And while it’s not easy to ignore Indigenous lawmakers if they’re sitting across the table, they often can be pigeonholed, said Richard Monette, who teaches federal Indian law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think that, in the end, the scale tips toward being more good than bad,” said Monette, a former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. “That’s fair to say, but I will say this is complex.”
“They would effectively be nullifying the votes of the 3 million plus Wisconsinites,” UW-Madison Law Professor Rob Yablon said. He added that is not allowed under current Wisconsin law and can’t see the Legislature trying to change it.
