MCW Surgery in the Age of COVID-19

#MASKUPMKE!

MCW/Kern Institute students and staff helped produce and distribute 3.5 million masks supplied from Revel Converting to the underserved population in Milwaukee.

Dr. Chris Davis has aggressively pursued a means of helping the underserved in the MKE community who have been disproportionally hit hardest by the pandemic. Dr. Davis took initiative to divide materials among students, staff, and community volunteers to make masks. In just 3 weeks, MCW and Kern Institute staff and students made and distributed almost 300,000 masks to community clinics, police, fire, and nearly 100 social service agencies. MCW/Kern is now a founding partner of MaskUpMKE and will continue to lead the initiative by overseeing production and delivery of masks to wherever in Milwaukee they are needed most with a particular focus on the underserved and vulnerable.

www.maskupmke.org

The Word on Medicine COVID-19 episodes

The Word on Medicine aired a series of weekly special broadcasts that provided accurate information from physicians caring for patients every day. We explained how this virus was transmitted from animals to humans in China, how human-tohuman transmission occurred, the challenges with testing and treatment, and much more.

The Word on Medicine would like to thank and gratefully acknowledge Drs. Joyce Sanchez, Mary Beth Graham (Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases) and Nate Ledeboer (Department of Pathology) for their many contributions during our eleven-part series devoted to COVID-19.

Scan the barcode above or visit ihr.fm/2LeatGc to check out The Word on Medicine podcast.

MaskUpMKE Timeline

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