4A MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020 THE POST-CRESCENT Due to the holiday, our office hours and obituary placement times may vary. Please contact us at 888-774-7744 or for further details. WI-GCI0398202-03I- CI0476426-01 Obituaries There are several obituary options available. Please consult your funeral director for more information. Richard H.
Breuer passed away peacefully onAugust 29, 2020 at the age of 95. Formerly from Oak Park, West Bloom- field and Commerce Township, Michigan. He was born in Toledo, Ohio andmovedwith his family to Detroit in 1928. A veteran of World War II, he graduated from Wayne State University where he was a member and President of the Mackenzie Honor Society and the Mu Beta Chi fraternity before becom- ing a 42 year employee of Ford Motor Company. After retirement he volunteered at both Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield and Channel 56 Public Television for over 25 years.He is survived by his wife of 70 years Phyllis; his two children, Gerald Breuer (Diane Cupps) andNancy (Charles) Orenstein; two grandchildren, Elizabeth (Corey) Cohen and Stephanie Orenstein; and two great grandchildren, Abigail and Miles Cohen.
He was pre-deceased by his sister Emily (Eli) Cutler and Morris (Naomi) Breuer. Private graveside servicesMonday.Arrangements by The Dorfman Chapel, Farmington Hills, MI (248) 406-6000 or visit www.thedorfmanchapel.com Richard H. Breuer APPLETON WISCON- SIN Sharon K. Skeens, age 2, 1945 August 29, 2020. Due to current cir- c*mstances PRIVATE Family Service, 3 PM Tuesday, September 1, 2020.
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not a perfect system, but it would allow you to capture some people (who are Safdar said. Patients and visitors at UW Health undergo a no- touch temperature screening upon entry, in line with federal guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how to safely provide non-CO- VID health care. Several reopening plans note that parents should screen children for symptoms, including taking their temperature, before they go to school each day. The Stevens Point Area Public School District, for ex- ample, where most students will be attending school in-person at least two days a week, has asked families to monitor for symptoms including a fever of over 100.4 degrees. Eggebrecht said a fan of that approach, rather than queuing students up to get a thermometer point- ed at their foreheads after they arrive at school, which could cause them to group together in close proximity.
you have a line of students and doing tem- perature checks, creating a scenario where having little mass gatherings. You may be cre- ating a worse environment than not he said. How can fever screenings be most effective? In an ideal world, Safdar said, adjust to a rou- tine where children are screened at home every day, before coming to school and potentially exposing oth- ers to the virus. But given the busy mornings families often have, coupled with pandemic-related stress, the most thor- ough way to be certain that a child have a fever is to screen them right at school, she said. Some districts do plan to tackle it this way.
At Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton, for example, parents are asked to screen their child before school, but kids will also have their temperatures checked daily before they enter their building. Wednesday marked the day back for the rough- ly 600 students who chose in-person school this year, said Fox Valley Lutheran president Loberger. Each student and member had their temperature checked using one of three facial recognition scanners stationed at the entrances, which Loberger estimated cost about $2,000 apiece. The process takes about two seconds per student, Loberger said: They step up, the scanner reads their temperature, a green light if a fever is not de- tected, and they move through. Each temperature reading then uploads to a database.
got everybody through in a pretty timely fash- ion this Loberger said Wednesday. were moments, when a bus would drop that we had a short he said, but he predicts things will move more smoothly as kids get used to the process. The most recent federal guidelines do not recom- mend universal temperature checks of K-12 children at school, nor do state health department guidelines re- leased Wednesday. The CDC cited asymptomatic cases, infected people who do not develop fevers and the fact that a child could have a fever, cough or other symptoms but not COVID-19 in its reasoning. screenings have the potential to exclude some students from school repeatedly even though they do not have COVID-19 or any contagious illness.
This in turn may worsen disparities in students who already miss school frequently because of chronic medical the report says. Temperature checks and other screenings will not prevent an outbreak unless coupled with other mitiga- tion strategies, it says, like wearing masks, physical distancing and hand-washing. The CDC recommendation against daily in-school screenings likely stems from the knowledge that lots of districts are dealing with constrained resources, Saf- dar said. hard to deny that (temperature screenings) do take time and and manpower. not like there are oodles of resources that have suddenly come about in response to she said.
will be a The fact that such screenings catch everyone who might be infected is why Fox Valley Lutheran is also relying on parents to vigilantly look for other symptoms, Loberger said, and students who present with other symptoms during the day will be sent home. The school bought the screening software early, before the CDC had released its guidance, but have decided that it will help with more than just COVID-19. biggest thing for us, our number one concern, is safety of he said. aside, (the screen- ings are) still going to be a good thing for any fever of any sort. We want sick students in our He said he hopes the desire of students and families to have in-person school continues throughout the year and will serve as motivation to pay close attention to symptoms and keep kids home if not feeling well.
Contact Madeline Heim at 920-996-7266 or Follow her on Twitter at Fever Continued from Page 1A The Wisconsin Department of Health Services re- ported 537 more COVID-19 cases and three more deaths Sunday. The new cases accounted for 10.5% of the 5,099 test results reported Sunday by the state. The seven-day average for percent of positive tests was at 8.3%. Statewide, 75,337 people have had cases of COVID-19. Nearly of people have recovered and of cases, or 7,498, remain active.
The three additional deaths brings the number of people who have died from the virus to 1,122. As of Saturday afternoon, 268 people were hospi- talized with COVID-19 and 90 people were in the ICU, DHS reported. An additional 157 people were hospital- ized and awaiting test results. Global cases have surpassed 25 million, and deaths reached 843,842 as of mid-Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5.9 million of those cases and 182,789 deaths were in the United States.
State 537 new cases of COVI-19, three more deaths Benita Mathew Green Bay Press-Gazette USA TODAY NETWORK WISCONSIN A crucial Phase III clinical trial of a vaccine against COVID-19 begins this week at the University of Wis- consin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and its teaching hospital UW Health. On Tuesday afternoon, the of an expected 2,000 participants in the trial will be injected in the shoulder, either with the vaccine developed by the English drug company AstraZeneca, or with a harm- less placebo. The trial of the vaccine, known as AZD1222, is taking place at scores of sites around the world. kind of a pivotal moment in attacking CO- said William Hartman, an assistant professor of anesthesiology who will lead the UW portion of the trial. focused on treatment up to this point.
an honor for UW now to be able to contribute to the to a vaccine, to do our part in helping bring the world back to The vaccine being tested uses a weakened virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. That vi- rus has been manipulated to include the gene that pro- duces the all-important spike protein in the new coro- navirus. The spike protein allows the virus to dock onto the cells lining the human upper respiratory system. how the virus enters our cells and begins to spread. Once injected into a person, the vaccine will make a piece of the new coronavirus, triggering the im- mune system to produce antibodies and cells, a ma- jor component of the immune system.
Hartman said UW hopes to recruit 250 patients a week for eight weeks to participate in the trial. Re- searchers will inject all trial participants once on the day and a second time on Day 29. All participants will then be monitored for two years. Participants will be monitored and will undergo pe- riodic tests, including physical exams, measurements of vital signs and COVID-19 tests. They are not ex- posed to the virus, but left to go about their day-to-day lives.
Earlier clinical trials of the AstraZeneca vaccine, carried out on more than 1,000 people, found that it triggered the production of antibodies in about and cells in more than Side included muscle aches and fever, and generally occurred in the 24 hours. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 200 vaccine candidates for CO- VID-19 are under development around the world; four are in clinical trials in the U.S. Vaccine development can take 10 to 15 years, but regulators have accelerated the process this year in hopes of producing a vaccine that can be put into widespread use much sooner. The Phase III vaccine trial beginning at UW is ran- domized, double-blinded and placebo-controlled, a design considered gold for ac- curacy. To participate in the trial, people must be at least 18 years old, healthy and with no evidence of prior CO- VID-19 infection.
Study organizers will interview ap- plicants for the trial. Names of those who qualify be sent to a central computer run by AstraZeneca, which will assign them a number. Participants will provide their number to the phar- macy, which will then assign them to receive either the vaccine or the placebo; participants know which. Two-thirds of participants will receive the vaccine; one-third will get the placebo. Neither the study sub- jects and researchers will not know who has received the vaccine and who has received the placebo.
UW hosts Phase III trial of COVID-19 vaccine Mark Johnson Milwaukee Journal Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK WISCONSIN.
