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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials have partnered with a medical testing company to provide free at-home COVID-19 tests as the state set a new record for disease-related deaths. Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday that his administration has struck a deal with Vault Medical Services to provide free at-home COVID-19 saliva tests. Anyone interested in a test can order one through the state Department of Health Services website starting immediately. […]

Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac is urging school districts to return to full in-class instruction after the first of the year.  The chair of the Assembly committee on education says the widespread, long-term closures of school buildings since March has been the "poorest government decisions of the pandemic."   Thiesfeldt says the decision not to have in-class instruction during the pandemic  will be impacting some students for […]

The Fond du Lac School District interim superintendent says the goal is still to have in class instruction five days a week at some point before the end of the school year.   Sharon Simon says the District has been holding it's own since returning  to a blended model  after the Thanksgiving holiday.  The District was forced to go to all remote learning earlier last month due to a staff  shortage because of COVID […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is promising that students will be able to return to campuses for the spring semester. Regents President Andrew Petersen said Monday that regents expect students will be able to return at the end of January, hoping that more robust COVID-19 testing will help stave off the types of outbreaks that forced the system to turn […]

Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin is expecting shipments of the Moderna vaccine to begin arriving at hospitals and clinics across the state this week. The initial shipment is expected to be 16,000 doses, with state health officials planning to receive a total of 100,000 doses in the upcoming weeks. Unlike the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the Moderna vaccine can be stored in normal freezers, which allows the vaccine to be shipped […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin health officials are confirming more than 1,800 positive COVID-19 tests in the last day and 18 new deaths due to complications from the coronavirus. The Sunday update increased the total number of cases to 457,177 since the start of the pandemic. The COVID Tracking Project reports that Wisconsin ranks 26th in the country for new cases per capita over the last two weeks. One in every […]

Fond du Lac St. Agnes Hospital emergency medicine physician Dr. Mark Kermgard says getting the COVID vaccine is the next step in controlling the spread of the disease and getting back to some normalcy.   Last week Dr. Kermgard became the first Fond du Lac resident to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.  Despite a report of a health worker in Alaska suffering an allergic reaction after receiving the shot Dr. Kermgard says he […]

The Dodge County Public Health Officer says even with the initial COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving in Wisconsin last week, distribution to the general public is still probably months away.  Public Health Officer Abby Sauer says initial vaccination plans will focus on health care workers and nursing home residents.  Sauer says it remains to be seen if the virus becomes a seasonal illness with an annual COVID-19 vaccine, just like a flu […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Associated Press analysis has found that Wisconsin spent at least $99 million on personal protective equipment and ventilators during the chaotic early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Data the AP obtained from states shows Wisconsin officials paid suppliers with in-state facilities only about $10 million for gear as they scoured the country to build a stockpile of supplies quickly. They paid high prices as states […]