There are 8,901 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin as of May 6, according to the state Department of Health Services. That's an increase of 335 cases from the day before.
The closure of Wisconsin schools through the end of the year means kids are at home with parents who still go in to work, are working from home, or are not working at all, which has made both working and keeping up with schooling hard for parents.
Ten patients infected with COVID-19 will be treated with Remdesivir at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee as part of a nationwide study of its effectiveness.
Costs for school districts are going up because of the coronavirus, at the same time that schools' primary sources of funding are likely to take a hit.
The UW System Board of Regents will consider a proposal dropping ACT requirements at all campuses except UW-Madison. The change is meant to make it easier for prospective freshman to enroll amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
For Wisconsin's rural Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant a series of adjustments — to students' and parents' schedules; to the way teachers conduct lessons; to the roles that support staff are filling.
Influenza and COVID-19 share several commonalities. They both cause respiratory distress. They both can be transmitted via contact and in droplets. And they both kill.
Estimates from the University of Wisconsin System administration office show the state's 13 universities and branch campuses are expecting more than $212 million in losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic through the summer semester.
Wisconsin's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund could run out of money by October if unemployment claims keep coming in at the current rate, the state Department of Workforce Development announced May 7.
There are 9,215 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin as of May 7, according to the state Department of Health Services. That's an increase of 314 cases from the day before.
