By Mark Kaufman Mashable April 9, 2020 Buckle up. You might have heard that fewer Americans may get sick and die from COVID-19 than previously estimated. According to leading projections — namely from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation… Read More
Fox6Now.com April 2, 2020 WASHINGTON — Washing your hands, not touching your face and keeping your distance. That’s been the main advice since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. with health officials looking to limit the transmission of the virus… Read More
By Joe Kelly Courthouse News Service April 7, 2020 MILWAUKEE (CN) – A line of hundreds of voters wearing masks both surgical and homemade curled around the block outside Riverside University High School on Milwaukee’s East Side Tuesday morning, as… Read More
By Guy Boulton Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 7, 2020 UW Health has an automated instrument capable of processing about 1,200 COVID-19 tests a day, or roughly four times the number that its lab now typically does. The instrument has yet to… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News April 3, 2020 If you have symptoms of the coronavirus disease, chances are you will not receive a laboratory test confirming it because the number of tests is limited nationwide. Under-detection of the illness leaves… Read More
By Devi Shastri and Daphne Chen Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 31, 2020 A prominent research center at the University of Washington released a report Monday predicting the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic will hit Wisconsin hospitals in late April, causing… Read More
By Daphne Chen and John Diedrich Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 27, 2020 Wisconsin public health officials are reporting more than 840 residents have tested positive for coronavirus, with nearly 500 of them in Milwaukee County. Those are important numbers to… Read More
By Janel Miller Helio Primary Care March 24, 2020 WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, citing “alarming levels of spread and severity” and “the alarming level of inaction.” Healio Primary Care asked… Read More
By Mark Kaufman Mashable March 24, 2020 You’re watching the numbers go up every day. Yet, mayors and governors around the nation have ordered Americans to stay inside. Sports are canceled. Birthday parties are canceled. The Rolling Stones tour is… Read More
Note: She’s also a Zilber School of Public Health alumna! By Jim Higgins Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 20, 2020 Lori Ahrenhoerster would rather be working around the clock with her colleagues in the North Shore Health Department to limit the… Read More