University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: COVID-19

UW-Madison researchers tracking travel, social media to help contain virus

Forced to choose between staying away from others to prevent the spread of a pandemic and casting a ballot in Wisconsin’s April 7 election, crowds lined up at polling places across the state — including thousands funneled to five sites in Milwaukee. New data shows that Wisconsinites traveled more during Tuesday’s election than they did …

Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene works with campus partners to test for COVID-19

As COVID-19 has infected more than 1 million people around the world — and more than 2,500 Wisconsin residents — since late December 2019, everything from nose-and-throat swabs to the chemical substances, or reagents, needed to conduct tests for the disease are in short supply. Alana Sterkel, assistant director in the communicable disease division of …

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As we navigate this global pandemic together, the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites you to subscribe to the new COVID-19 Update newsletter, designed to keep you up to date on coronavirus, resources and research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See the first newsletter here. To subscribe to the newsletter, sign up here. Find the latest plans …

UW-Madison publishing and printing team makes face shields for UW Hospital workers

MADISON – Trying to unwind after a long, hectic day working at UW Health, Leigh Larson couldn’t fall asleep. As director of graduate medical education and medical staff administration, her mind raced through the frightening scenarios that lay ahead for her health care colleagues bracing for the COVID-19 storm. Both concerned and restless, Leigh and …