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16 Jun All of Us Research Program launches COVID-19 research initiatives

Posted at 12:37h in All of Us, COVID-19, Health Equity, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Research

The All of Us Research Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it is leveraging its significant and diverse participant base to seek new insights into COVID-19—through antibody testing, a survey on the pandemic’s impacts and collection of electronic health record information....

10 Jun ‘All of Us’ Research Program: Ensuring that medical research benefits all of us (Part 2)

Posted at 13:17h in All of Us, Community, Community Engagement, COVID-19, Health, Health Equity, Madison, Precision Medicine, UW-Madison

Lucretia Sullivan-Wade, a community outreach specialist for UW-Madison's participation in the national All of Us Research Program, discusses the racial disparities that exist in health research and how the All of Us program is reaching out to communities of color in Madison and elsewhere to help ensure they have more of a voice in the future of healthcare....

09 Jun Maps show ZIP codes with highest percentage of people at risk of severe complications from COVID-19

Posted at 12:06h in COVID-19, Health Equity, Research, UW-Madison, Wisconsin

What ZIP codes throughout Wisconsin have the highest proportion of adults at high risk of severe complications from COVID-19? Where should public health departments allocate the most resources? What areas should be monitored the most closely? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pulled together information to help answer those questions....

03 Jun Hope for community, for health, and for the future

Posted at 16:09h in All of Us, Community, Community Engagement, COVID-19, Equality, Health Equity, Research

All of Us was founded with the core values that participation is open to all; that the rich diversity of the United States is one of our greatest strengths; and that you, our participant, walk with us as our partner. We seek to treat all with respect, dignity, and value, and to communicate often and clearly to earn your trust. These values remind us of why we’re here, and why the research we’re moving forward...

20 May Podcast: Why is the pandemic killing so many Black Americans?

Posted at 10:21h in COVID-19, Health Equity

This podcast explores how racial disparities in the death rate contradict the claim that the novel coronavirus is "the great equalizer"....

19 May Bringing out the best in us during the pandemic

Posted at 14:29h in COVID-19

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins discusses how, for some, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a selfless need: to be a good neighbor to the most vulnerable among us and help them stay well, both mentally and physically, during this trying time....

14 May Why has COVID-19 hit seniors so hard?

Posted at 16:24h in COVID-19

Older people are more likely to catch COVID-19, to suffer from it more severely, and to have a tougher recovery....

14 May Racial disparities heightened with COVID-19 crisis

Posted at 14:40h in COVID-19, Health Equity

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, African Americans make up 6.7% of Wisconsin’s populations, but they account for 29% of the people who have died in the state from COVID-19, higher than the national number of 21.9%. Blacks make up 21% of the COVID-19 cases statewide....

13 May ‘3 times more likely to die’: Coronavirus ravages Milwaukee’s African American community

Posted at 14:53h in COVID-19, Health Equity, Milwaukee

As of Monday, there have been 4,051 cases of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County and 221 deaths. African Americans represent about a quarter of the county’s population but account for almost half of the deaths....

13 May Antibody testing for COVID-19 now offered at Madison hospitals, clinics

Posted at 10:24h in COVID-19

People who want to know if they have had COVID-19 can now go to Madison hospitals and clinics for antibody testing, which could also help health officials decide when to loosen or tighten measures to reduce spread of the coronavirus....

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