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Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam is offering a mobile flu clinic this fall.   Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 7 the mobile unit will be located  in the parking lot near Entrance B.  The unit  is designed to increase access to the flu vaccine and reduce traffic inside Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam facilities.   Hospital officials say entering the first full flu season during the COVID-19 pandemic,  it’s more important than ever to have yourself inoculated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from a virus that has now killed more […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she agrees with the state’s chief medical officer, that the state is in “crisis.”   COVID-19  cases continue to soar at the state’s highest levels since the pandemic began.  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says recent spikes in cases locally have been tied to large wedding gatherings.  Mueller says contact tracers are hearing first hand from positive individuals who have attended weddings where there […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marcus Theatres has temporarily closed 17 of the 72 cinemas it reopened this summer, citing a decline in audience demand and the limited number of new movie releases. The coronavirus pandemic led to the closure of movie theaters across Wisconsin in mid-March. The Milwaukee-based Marcus began reopening many of its theaters in August, after test runs at a handful of theaters in June. Theaters Marcus has closed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city’s mayor and the state’s governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases. A spokeswoman for La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat said Thursday they had received word that Air Force One was no longer coming to the city, “so we are assuming the Trump Campaign […]

The Washington County executive says he couldn’t believe it when he heard  a youth football coach attended a practice and scrimmage knowing he had COVID-19.   County executive Josh Schoemann says the assistance coach was symptomatic and had gotten a COVID test on Thursday.  Schoemann says Saturday the coach got a call from a contact tracer stating he was positive and they were going to do contact tracing.   Schoemann says the coach told the […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she was disappointed to learn that a youth football coach would knowingly jeopardize the health of the kids he was coaching.    The Washington County youth football coach was fired after attending a practice and scrimmage even though he had been tested for COVID-19 and then told he was positive.  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller was notified because the coach lives in Fond du Lac County.   […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The coronavirus has tightened its grip on the Midwest, with hospitals in Wisconsin and North Dakota running low on space. In Wisconsin, a hospital north of Milwaukee has exceeded capacity in its COVID-19 unit and started sending patients to other facilities. In the capital of North Dakota, an extra hospital unit has opened that can treat virus patients if needed. Meanwhile, the NFL decided to postpone a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party is warning Milwaukee’s chief elections official that it would be illegal for any Milwaukee Bucks or Brewers players or mascots to participate in early voting events planned at their stadiums in the days leading up to the election. Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt sent the letter Tuesday to Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. Milwaukee […]