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Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: April 2020

The Use And Misuse Of Wisconsin's COVID-19 Projections

Wisconsin Watch

Days after Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced the state's Safer-at-Home order, a subtly misleading framework for Wisconsin's COVID-19 projections appeared on Twitter.

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: April 2020

COVID-19, Face Masks And Why More Wisconsinites Are Wearing Them

Will Cushman

WisContext

Wisconsinites are adapting to life under the cloud of COVID-19, and for a growing group that means getting into the habit of covering up with a face mask when they venture from their homes.

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: April 2020

A Trio Of Nurses Share The 'Surreal' Ordeal Of Fighting For Lives In A COVID-19 ICU

Parker Schorr

The Cap Times

Over several interviews, a trio of nurses offered an inside look into how frontline workers are responding to the virus that has upended life in Wisconsin.

Series: The Flu And Wisconsin's Public Health

While World War I Ended, UW-Madison Endured A Deadly Pandemic

Samantha Nash

PBS Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, the First World War and 1918 flu pandemic came together in a typical yet tragic way.

Series: The Flu And Wisconsin's Public Health

The Virus That Shut Down Wisconsin: The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918

Steven B. Burg

The speed at which the novel coronavirus has raced around the world, and the severity of the disease it causes, has sparked interest in humanity's last experience with a contagion of such scale.

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: April 2020

Closed For COVID-19: Door County Asks Visitors To Stay Away

Myles Dannhausen Jr.

Door County Pulse

At the time, it seemed almost absurd. During an emergency meeting of the Sister Bay Village Board of Trustees on March 16, 2020, trustee Rob Zoschke leaned back in his chair and asked bluntly: "Should we be telling resorts to close down and not accept reservations and cancel existing ones?"

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: March 2020

Wisconsin's Race To Roll Out More COVID-19 Tests, Despite Shortages Of 'Everything'

Will Cushman

WisContext

There are simply not enough resources available to test most people who are sick in Wisconsin and across the United States.The dilemma is spurring local and regional health systems to increasingly take testing matters into their own hands, a move state officials not only endorse but are actively pursuing.

Series: The Flu And Wisconsin's Public Health

What Made The Great Flu Pandemic Of 1918 So Momentous

Samantha Nash

PBS Wisconsin

When a new and dangerous respiratory disease started racing around the globe in early 2020, it had been just over a century since humankind endured the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Series: Growing Rural Wisconsin's Economy

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: March 2020

The Broadband Gap Leaves Rural Wisconsin Behind In The COVID-19 Crisis

Peter Cameron

The Badger Project

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many of the ways in which poor internet service can make rural residents less productive and more isolated than their urban counterparts.

Series: The Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 And Wisconsin: March 2020

The Urgent Battle To Flatten Wisconsin's COVID-19 Curve

Will Cushman

WisContext

Over the course of a single historic week, daily life in Wisconsin and across much of the United States ground to a halt as a dangerous new virus arrived in communities across the nation. A flurry of shutdowns raced to keep up with the spread of COVID-19 and the growing realization of its looming human impact.