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What you need to know about the COVID-19 booster shots
COVID-19 infection rates have been increasing throughout the summer. One epidemiologist is advocating for getting booster shots now to target recent variants in hopes of avoiding another spike as Wisconsin […]
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Workers, employers struggle as Long COVID sidelines thousands of Wisconsinites
In November 2020, Danielle Sigler tested approximately 200 residents in a Mount Horeb, Wis., nursing home during a COVID-19 outbreak. The residents weren’t the only ones Sigler was worried about; […]
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WisContext: What The COVID-19 Pandemic Looks Like In Wisconsin: Maps And Charts
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on April 1, 2020 and has since been updated, with the most recent changes made on Aug. 6, 2022. Data visualizations are updated […]
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Wisconsin zoos, animal sanctuaries take precautions against avian flu
Normally at this time of year, staff at Heartland Farm Sanctuary in Verona would be gearing up for the wave of visitors coming to pet, cuddle and admire their adorable […]
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Thousands Still Without Power In Eastern Wisconsin After Tuesday Storms
Tens of thousands of people across the eastern part of Wisconsin remain without power Thursday afternoon as We Energies undertakes what its president calls “the largest restoration in our company’s […]
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WisContext: A Year Into The Pandemic, What’s Driving Varied Coronavirus Rates Across Wisconsin?
Situated along the eastern banks of the St. Croix River just 18 miles from downtown St. Paul, the community of Hudson, Wisconsin, serves as a primary gateway to the Badger […]
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WisContext: The Pace Of A Pandemic Meets The Speed Of Science As Wisconsin Takes On COVID-19
Time has taken on elastic qualities over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic— slowing, stretching and slipping as uncertainty has reigned — but its passage has been accompanied by one […]
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WisContext: Wisconsin’s Spring, Summer And Fall COVID-19 Surges
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services issues data on a daily basis that list the number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported to the state by local health departments, as […]
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WisContext: COVID-19 Misinformation And The Paranoid Style In Wisconsin’s Pandemic Politics
When the coronavirus started spreading around Wisconsin in the spring of 2020, Dr. Chad Tamez hosted Facebook Live sessions to help patients understand what was initially a mysterious new pathogen. […]
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WisContext: Wisconsin’s Urgent, Imperfect, Transparent, Confusing, Essential COVID-19 Data
Alarmed by “near-exponential” growth in COVID-19 cases across Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers on Sept. 22 declared his third public health emergency during the pandemic and extended a statewide mask mandate […]