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Daily Bread for 4.13.20

Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of forty-two.  Sunrise is 6:13 AM and sunset 7:36 PM, for 13h 22m 07s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 65.3% of its visible disk illuminated.

Today is the one thousand two hundred fifty-second day.

On this day in 1960, the United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.

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 Devi Shastri reports Coronavirus has cost UW System $168 million in lost revenue and added expenses as of April 10:

The University of Wisconsin System released initial estimates on the cost of the coronavirus pandemic Sunday: $168 million across the state’s 13 campuses as of April 10.

Robert Cramer, UW System’s vice president for administration, called the estimate short-term and conservative. It is a combination of lost revenue and added expenses.

Nearly half the figure comes from the refunds made to students for room and board fees for what was left of the spring semester, which the system initially put at $78 million statewide.

It also includes parking refunds, forgone athletic revenue, technology investments and income-continuation payments for students.

Cramer said an estimated $47 million stimulus from the federal government will help the system remain solvent. The UW System also asked the state government in late March for $59 million in emergency aid. That request has not been acted on.

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The cost breakdowns across the UW System are:

  • UW-Eau Claire: $7.1 million
  • UW-Green Bay: $2.5 million
  • UW-La Crosse: $5.4 million
  • UW-Madison: $100 million
  • UW-Milwaukee: $9.2 million
  • UW-Oshkosh: $8 million
  • UW-Parkside: $2.3 million
  • UW-Platteville: $7.3 million
  • UW-River Falls: $6.3 million
  • UW-Stevens Point: $5 million
  • UW-Stout: $5.8 million
  • UW-Superior: $1.3 million
  • UW-Whitewater: $7.9 million

Rudy Ruitenberg and Robert Williams report France Reports Heart Incidents Linked to Drug Promoted by Trump:

France reported 43 cases of heart incidents linked to treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential “game changer.”

As the U.S. stockpiles as many as 29 million doses of the drug, which is also used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, the data on adverse reactions from France’s drug safety agency highlights the risk of using unproven treatments to stem a pandemic that’s killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday visited a clinic in Marseille, southern France, where reports of uncontrolled studies have recently propelled the 65-year-old drug to fame. Macron’s advisers said the trip wasn’t an endorsement.

(Read more: Nigeria Has Chloroquine Poisonings After Trump Praised Drug)

France has recorded about 100 health incidents and four deaths linked to experimental drugs for coronavirus patients since March 27, the national drug-safety agency ANSM said in a statement on Friday. Three other patients had to be revived.

Some 82 incidents were deemed “serious.” Most of those were split between hydroxychloroquine and HIV antivirals lopinavir-ritonavir, according to the agency.

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