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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…
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Know your Madisonian: UW Hospital doctor at forefront of COVID-19 pandemic response
Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, is helping lead UW Health’s response to COVID-19.
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Four UW-Madison students named 2020 Goldwater scholars – the most possible for any institution
Among them is junior Elizabeth Sumiec, a global health certificate student.
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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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Sign up for UW-Madison coronavirus newsletter
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…