Science & Technology
April 13, 2020
First COVID-19 patient at University Hospital treated with plasma from recovered patient
A COVID-19 patient at UW Hospital has received the first transfusion of plasma from a local patient who donated it since recovering from the disease.
Health & Wellness
April 13, 2020
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.
Health & Wellness
April 9, 2020
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene working 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.