With a strike looming on the horizon, nurses at Meriter Hospital successfully voted over the weekend to approve a new precedent-setting contract to support healthcare workers and improve policies after […]
UW Health recycling respirators to preserve supply
Wisconsin is facing shortages of essential personal protective equipment for its medical workers. In an effort to preserve its supplies, UW Health is reusing, disinfecting and sanitizing a variety of […]
A Difficult Choice: Democracy or Health
Kelli Larson works for the State of Wisconsin as a tax analyst. Yesterday, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Larson served as a poll worker for the first time. […]
Tim Osswald on 3D Printing PPE
As manufacturing of personal protective equipment (or PPEs) and other medical gear ramps up, 3D printing is being used as a stopgap to meet healthcare workers’ needs. Tim Osswald is […]