Stories tagged: "nursing"

Vaccine Stories Kristi and Jeff Mecikalski
Vaccine Stories As She Grieves Her Father-in-Law, This Wisconsin Nurse Awaits Her Vaccine Dose

COVID-19 also sickened her husband, so Kristi Mecikalski is well aware of the value of getting immunized.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson January 20, 2021 10:08 am CST
Coronavirus Hayward nurse Buffy Riley, left, and state Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, each contracted the coronavirus and survived painful battles with COVID-19.
Coronavirus Riley and Bowen: Trump Making It Harder to Survive COVID-19

Bowen was the first state legislator to catch the virus. Riley went to New York to help overloaded hospitals; then she caught it.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski May 20, 2020 9:08 am CDT
Coronavirus Buffy Riley, right, and one of the nurses she works with treating patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in New York. (Photo by Buffy Riley)
Coronavirus Buffy Riley Is Home – But Her Coronavirus Nightmare Isn’t Over Yet

Buffy Riley contracts COVID-19 despite safeguards while treating patients in New York City.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 26, 2020 8:31 pm CDT
Coronavirus Footage of Elizabeth “Buffy” Riley and other nurses being applauded by New York City police as they departed for work as shown on the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday.
Coronavirus Buffy Riley Back in the Northwoods, But Not Quite ‘Out of the Woods’

Back from NYC, nurse will quarantine at a friend's cabin.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 24, 2020 6:17 pm CDT
Coronavirus Registered nurse in Madison speaks out against lack of effort by state and federal lawmakers to provide PPE.
Coronavirus Nurses Getting Tired of Political Molasses

Undersupplied and facing health risks, they're silent no longer.

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 24, 2020 10:17 am CDT

continuing coverage

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) holds a press conference on April 13 where he demands Gov. Tony Evers accept severe restrictions on local health officials, schools, and the governor himself in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in federal supplemental COVID food aid. (Image via Wisconsin Eye.) Politics Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
An archival image of the Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes in Waushara County, which have experienced a reduction in water levels due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigated agriculture. (Photo credit: Wisconsin DNR) Natural Resources Clean Water at Stake as WI Supreme Court Hears Appeals to Take GOP Restrictions Off the DNR
Left: A sewer line under construction along St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee in 1920. Right: Victor Berger, co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, and the first Socialist elected to Congress. Lower: Construction of a Milwaukee sewer line in 1932. (Photos courtesy: Wisconsin Historical Society and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Graphic by Morgaine Ford-Workman.) Infrastructure Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
The state Capitol in Madison is reflected off the windows of an office building across the street. (Photo by Julian Emerson) Politics Not Allowed: Nonpartisan Analysis Finds a Flaw in GOP Plans for Wisconsin Stimulus Money
Coronavirus Hayward resident Buffy Riley, right, has given out dozens of N95 masks she has been sent by Wisconsin friends to other nurses working with her in New York. Riley wears two masks and a face shield to protect against her getting COVID-19. (Contributed photo)
Coronavirus Overwhelmed, Applauded and Now Sick, a Wisconsin Nurse Comes Home from New York

Part 5 – Buffy Riley has worries about coronavirus but no regrets

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 22, 2020 10:26 am CDT
Coronavirus Buffy Riley, right, and one of the nurses she works with treating patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in New York. (Photo by Buffy Riley)
Coronavirus ‘Death Feels Like It Will Go on Forever’

Part 4: Wisconsin nurse treating coronavirus patients in New York

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 14, 2020 7:29 pm CDT