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UW-Madison COVID-19 stories and experts: Thursday Mourning, spread data, new vaccines For news media More information MADISON – The following UWâMadison stories and experts are available on current topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. See more stories here.  âThursday Mourningâ remembrance ritual honors COVID-19 victims âI wanted to feel a connection to those who had died, to acknowledge their lives.â Thatâs Omar Poler, describing the intent of his Thursday Mourning remembrance ritual. Poler is indigenous education coordinator for the Office of the Provost and the School of Education at UWâMadison. Every Thursday morning 10, he stops whatever heâs doing and spends 10 minutes remembering â and honoring â the lives lost to COVID-19. The practice has spread to other parts of campus and beyond. Read the full story
Population density and virus strains will affect how regions can resume normal life For news media More information As a new, apparently more transmissible version of the virus that causes COVID-19 has appeared in several countries, new research finds that the transmissibility of viral strains and the population density of a region will play big roles in how vaccination campaigns can help towns and cities return to more normal activities. The findings suggest that directing vaccines toward densely populated counties would help to interrupt transmission of the disease. Current vaccination distribution plans don’t take density into account. Tony Ives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Claudio Bozzuto of the independent data research company Wildlife Analysis GmbH studied the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. at the start of the pandemic, before people changed their behavior to avoid the disease. This let them uncover factors that may affect the transmission of COVID-19 when masking and physical distancing start to wane and behavior once again resembles the pre-pandemic normal.