June 29, 2020 2:26 PM Logan Rude Posted: June 29, 2020 2:26 PM Updated: June 29, 2020 2:28 PM MADISON, Wis. — Roughly 30% of Wisconsin counties are experiencing a high level of COVID-19 activity, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The new metric, which is a summary based on each county’s number…
Benita Mathew, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 2:55 p.m. CT June 21, 2020 | Updated 9:36 a.m. CT June 22, 2020CLOSEState health officials reported 280 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 24,819.The new cases account for 4.6% of the 6,051 tests that came back positive, according to the state…
Posted: Wed 2:03 PM, May 13, 2020  |  Updated: Wed 4:18 PM, May 13, 2020 MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Wisconsin saw a significant upswing in new coronavirus cases Wednesday, even as the number of test results declined slightly. The state reports 291 more people had positive results from 4,654 tests, or 6.25%, bringing the state…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A feared spike in Wisconsin’s coronavirus infection rate following its April 7 in-person presidential primary never materialized, although some new cases of the virus were possibly linked to the election, according to a report. A team of doctors from Wisconsin…
Benita Mathew, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 3:03 p.m. CT April 19, 2020 CLOSENine more people died statewide from COVID-19, and over 140 more people tested positive, the state Department of Health Services announced Sunday afternoon. Health officials confirmed a total of 4,346 cases in Wisconsin and said at least 220 people died from the virus. The…
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two
Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleagues. “I’ve seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is bitten,” said Dhooghe, who works at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The