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/COVID-19 multilingual site recognized
The site was highlighted by Voice of America’s Tibetan news as an example of how linguistic diversity and inclusion are recognized and honored by the university.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/covid-19-multilingual-site-recognized/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/Wisconsin Partnership Program to support community vaccination efforts
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UW–Madison offers surge testing to community amid rise in cases
UW-Madison will offer free COVID-19 testing to area residents, ages five years and older, beginning Thursday, Nov. 12. This testing is for members of the public and participants do not need to be a UW–Madison student or employee.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-offers-surge-testing-to-community-amid-rise-in-cases/Badger Seal increases the benefits of wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic
New fact-checking projects focus on combatting COVID-19 misinformation
With information about COVID-19 rapidly circulating online, it can be difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not. SJMC faculty and students are working on several projects to combat misinformation.
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Read the full article at: https://journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fact-checking-projects-focus-on-combatting-covid-19-misinformation/Coughing visualization illustrates the benefits of wearing a good mask
A research team made a video of a modified mannequin whose mouth releases a puff of air containing fog, in order to see how well masks contain the fog and visualize results from testing different mask styles.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/coughing-visualization-illustrates-the-benefits-of-wearing-a-good-mask/UW–Madison creates COVID-19 Wisconsin Connect app for Wisconsites
Wisconsin Connect is the first locally-designed COVID-19 app, allowing users to both receive and give help to others in their communities while correcting state-specific misinformation trending on social media.
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