The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the Department of Health Services are collecting samples from over 100 wastewater treatment facilities, the largest network of its type yet, to trace patterns in the spread of COVID-19.
Council also passed resolution asking UW to decriminalize marijuana possession on campus to match Madison laws.
The new site is located at 3819 John Wall Drive. It will take over the COVID-19 testing that is currently being done of symptomatic patients, pre-surgical patients, and UW Health employees at an outdoor site on Madison’s west side.
When Ms. Fine went to UW Health’s University Hospital in Madison, she found doctors there overwhelmed and distracted. “They just parked me in a hallway because there was no place for me to go,” said Ms. Fine, 61, who was eventually found to have a severe bout of shingles that threatened her eyes.
Before Thanksgiving, Wisconsin was “at least leveling out, maybe trending down a little bit on some of the measures we look at,” said Dr. Jeffrey Pothof, the chief quality officer for UW Health. It would have been too soon to know if the state’s outbreak had begun to recede, but there was data suggesting that was possible.
Dr. Jonathan Temte, associate dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index gives some priority to rural areas. The index includes socioeconomic status, minority population, housing, transportation and other factors.
