The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is ramping up efforts for COVID-19 contact tracing after the April 7 elections may have caused increased exposure to the disease during in-person voting.
Wisconsin's legislative leaders called the state Senate and Assembly into extraordinary session to pass a COVID-19 pandemic aid package. The bill's language is still being worked out.
Several experts have advice on dealing with housing-related issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how to pay for housing expenses, what to do about showing a house or apartment, and what to do if you’re being removed from your home.
Dr. Marin Darsie watched the spread of the coronavirus long before it reached Wisconsin. She works in an emergency room and specializes in neurocritical care. And she worries that compelling people to congregate, as they do at polling places, could provide a vector for the spread of COVID-19.
Steve Deller, a professor at UW-Madison's Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, predicts unemployment is going to be much worse in March compared to February in Wisconsin's rural locations.
Wisconsin's county sheriff's offices are working to reduce the number of inmates in hopes of preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 among inmates and jail staff.
Ethics experts and critical care workers are helping the state come up with guidelines on who should have access to ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has hired more than 120 workers in the last few weeks to help local public health departments track down people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 on Election Day.
