The Menomonie Public Library announced today that they are joining many other businesses and organizations in the area by requiring face masks be worn by customers of the library. Their announcement requires masks on everyone age 3 and above who are visiting the library and goes into effect on Monday, August 3.
We're trying out another community engagement experiment. WisCommunity is partnering with Polco to do polls of the local community. At the moment we're interested in how you feel about sending your kids back to school this fall, and how you think that will happen.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread alarmingly throughout the country and Wisconsin. Although we have not reached a crisis level in the Chippewa Valley, the numbers are not great. As of today we've had 61 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Dunn County, 48 of which are considered to have recovered. Fortunately we have not yet experienced any deaths. In Eau Claire County there have been 371 cases, and one death. State-wide the numbers are definitely not improviing (see below graphs).
This is a community meeting of many people and organizations on preventing the spread of the virus and the importance of wearing masks and following other best practices.
The City-County Health Department also today released a "Mask Up Eau Claire" statement of multiple partners in the county encourage mask use in public places.
Today Governor Evers announced a new committee to expand broadband availability in the state. He also covered other developments in economic recovery in the state from the pandemic. He reiterated that economic recovery in the state largely depends on controlling the growth of the pandemic, and that we are now seeing record increases in cases, particularly in the past week.
For the third day in a row, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the state per day has hit a record high. Today's report from the Department of Health Services shows a new high of 926 cases reported in the state. Although it is true that the number of tests being done in the state has increased greatly the percentage of tests that are positive also has been rising over the last few days, with over 8% of the tests done in the past 24 hours reported as positive.
According to a press release from the Dunn County Health Department this morning, people attending the Knapp Valley Riders 4th of July event in Knapp, Wisconsin may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. People who attended the event and who are experiencing any of the COVID-19 symptoms should report this to their medical provider and be tested.
