Chestina Schubert, a respiratory therapist who treats COVID-19 patients in University Hospital's intensive care unit in Madison, receives a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month at the hospital. University of Wisconsin System campuses may serve as vaccine distribution hubs when the vaccine becomes more widely available to the general public.
Wisconsin’s battle against COVID-19 was boosted Monday by more health care workers being vaccinated, the announcement of a second vaccine arriving this week and the possibility that UW campuses could become vaccination hubs.
UnityPoint Health-Meriter medical assistant Andrea Morton gives nurse Mary Jo Steffes, 62, her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The hospital's first shipment of vaccines arrived Monday afternoon.
Fave 5: Higher education reporter Kelly Meyerhofer shares her top picks of 2020
The first story I wrote this year was about a two-legged dog. 2020 only got more weird from there.
In early March, I sat in a room with about a hundred others listening to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank brief professors on how the coronavirus might affect campus operations. During the Faculty Senate meeting, she encouraged instructors to consider what classes or meetings could be delivered online.
The annual Match Day tradition, where students stand on stage to learn where they will do their residencies, was scuttled because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of students moved into UW-Madison's dorms with a mixed set of emotions about the semester ahead — excitement, hope, doubt, fear — and I tried to capture it all in this story.
UW-Madison's return to the physical classroom stokes fear among some who say the safest option is to continue online and relief from others whose experience teaching or learning remotely was underwhelming.
Chestina Schubert, a respiratory therapist who treats COVID-19 patients in University Hospital's intensive care unit in Madison, receives a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month at the hospital. University of Wisconsin System campuses may serve as vaccine distribution hubs when the vaccine becomes more widely available to the general public.
UnityPoint Health-Meriter medical assistant Andrea Morton gives nurse Mary Jo Steffes, 62, her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The hospital's first shipment of vaccines arrived Monday afternoon.
