The upcoming start of the 2020-2021 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic brings a unique set of challenges to Wisconsin school districts and local and tribal health departments.
Wisconsin is seeing significant COVID-19 activity, and data show that this is at least partly due to activities like gatherings. Data obtained from contact tracing calls indicate that the percent of people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 who reported attending a gathering, party, or other meet up with people outside their home in the past two weeks grew from 7% of cases in May to 21% of cases in June and 20% of cases in July.
The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is alerting the public of potential COVID-19 exposure at The Pickle on August 5th and 6th from 11:00pm-1:30am.
Today's COVID-19 numbers reported by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services show 1006 deaths from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Although the rate of deaths has varied somewhat over the last five months and for some time the rate of increase slowed, the general trend has not gotten under control throughout the entire period. Since early July, the average number of deaths and the seven-day average of new cases have been increasing.
The Eau Claire City-County Public Health Department as issued a notice of a potential COVID-19 exposure in the city.
The potential exposure took place at
Sports Page Bar on Saturday, August 1st from 4:00pm -2:30am and Sunday, August 2nd from 5:00pm – 2:00am.
If you were potentially exposed to the virus and are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms it is recommended that you contact your health provider for further instructions about getting tested.
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced more than $32 million in financial assistance to the University of Wisconsin (UW) System and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as they prepare to welcome students back to campus this fall.
A joint statement was released today about the COVID-19 situation in Eau Claire County, and particularly in regard to the face-covering mandate. The document is signed by the Eau Claire Chief of Police and Sheriff, the Eau Claire City-County Health Department, the Eau Claire city manager, the Eau Claire County Administrator, and the Altoona Administrator and Chief of Police. It is supportive of the wearing of masks and makes several suggestions:
A new public forecasting model developed by Google and the Harvard Global Health Institute predicts 97 deaths in Wisconsin in the next two weeks and 15,000 new COVID-19 cases.
