The eICU program, a collaboration between UW Health and its partner hospitals that started in 2008, has helped care for about 1,300 COVID-19 ICU patients since the beginning of 2020. As its name suggests, it is a virtual intensive care unit based in Madison that monitors and provides care to patients in Wisconsin and northern Illinois hospitals and ICUs. In 2021, at least 25% of the eICU admissions with a diagnosis of COVID-19 occurred in the last two months of the year.
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Grants target mental health, other ongoing effects of pandemic
The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has announced 14 awards totaling $2.7 million to community organizations and researchers to address the ongoing health consequences and impact of the …
Read the full article at: https://www.med.wisc.edu/news-and-events/2021/august/wpp-covid-19-response-grants-target-mental-health/Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene helps small businesses through pandemic
WSLH coordinates the Wisconsin Clinical Lab Network, with more than 130 hospital and clinical labs across the state, and was able to quickly pull together collaborations to increase COVID-19 testing capacity.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/wisconsin-state-laboratory-of-hygiene-partner-labs-serve-state-during-pandemic/Viral sequencing catches mutations, guides effective public health response
As the tallies of COVID-19’s effects in the United States have mounted to a dizzying scale, a team of UW scientists has kept its focus on the tiniest shifts in the virus’s genetic material.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/viral-sequencing-catches-mutations-guides-effective-public-health-response/Wisconsin Partnership Program to support community vaccination efforts
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Population density and virus strains will affect how regions can resume normal life
“Vaccination programs should consider potential spread rate in different areas. The main driver that will be important is density,” says researcher Tony Ives.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/population-density-and-virus-strains-will-affect-how-regions-can-resume-normal-life/UW researchers develop tool to equitably distribute limited vaccines
The School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health have developed a tool that incorporates age and socioeconomic status to prioritize vaccine distribution among people who otherwise share similar risks due to their jobs.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/uw-researchers-develop-tool-to-equitably-distribute-limited-vaccines/Contactless thermometer helps monitor student health
A prototype “contactless” thermometer was created by borrowing the sensor from a commercially available thermometer and adding a microcontroller and distance sensor controlled by open-source code.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/contactless-thermometer-helps-monitor-student-health/Trailer to be center of testing
A mobile lab run by University of Illinois System subsidiary Shield T3 was set up Friday in Lot 64 near the WARF building. The lab will conduct diagnostic PCR testing of saliva samples collected at sites across campus from students and employees starting in January.
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UW Health received its first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the morning of Monday, Dec. 14. By early afternoon, the first doses were given to frontline medical personnel.
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