MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin students who get vaccinated for COVID-19 will no longer have to be tested weekly for the virus under a policy that interim President Tommy Thompson calls an incentive to bolster vaccination rates on campus. Thompson says the change he announced Wednesday is designed to maximize the number who get inoculated before they leave campuses and return home this summer. The push to get […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says a handful of the new positive COVID-19 cases from Wednesday were children. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says three of the nine positive cases Wednesday were children not eligible to be vaccinated at this time. Mueller says that’s why it’s important for people who are eligible to get vaccinated. Five people are currently hospitalized in Fond du Lac County with COVID-19.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The majority of Wisconsin Republicans’ plans for spending $3.2 billion in federal stimulus money either may not be allowed under the law or might have to be repaid. That's according to reviews of the bills that are moving quickly through the Legislature by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Republicans are moving to pass bills that would spend the federal money as they want, rather than as […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer is concerned about the potential for a fourth surge of the coronavirus if people let down their guard in their fight against COVID-19. Kim Mueller was responding to comments by CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who spoke this week of a “recurring feeling…of impending doom.” Mueller says 14 new cases were reported Tuesday, and five people are now hospitalized in Fond du lac County […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee opened state agency briefings by questioning the state superintendent of schools about when schools will fully reopen to all students in person and whether more than $2.2 billion in federally allocated money is going to the right districts. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and how Wisconsin’s schools and the state education department have responded to it dominated the Department […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruling clears the way for names of businesses that have had outbreaks of COVID-19 can be made public, but the decision is expected to be appealed to the state Supreme Court before any information is released. The ruling from the 4th District Court of Appeals, based in Madison, came Monday in a case brought by the state’s largest business lobbying group, Wisconsin […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The COVID-19 vaccination center at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison will be able to increase the number of doses delivered by 2,100 a week thanks to new staffing support from the federal government starting on Wednesday. Gov. Tony Evers made the announcement Tuesday. The site will become the third in Wisconsin run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. It also […]
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 variants continue to spike in Wisconsin the Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer is continuing to urge residents to wear masks. The number of COVID-19 variant cases spiked dramatically last week from the previous week, with nearly 150 cases of these strains now being identified in Wisconsin. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says even though the state Supreme Court struck down the statewide mask mandate […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers announced the team received the COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend but wouldn’t disclose what percentage of players and staffers participated. Major League Baseball has announced it would relax protocols for teams that had 85% of their players and primary field staff vaccinated. Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns declined to say whether the Brewers had reached that 85% threshold. Stearns did say the […]