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Milwaukee authorities indicated strong support for the extension of the guv’s stay-at-home order Thursday, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to more than 2,000 in the county and the death toll surpassed100
” We can never let these numbers end up being an abstraction,” Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele stated. “These are people and lives.”
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy and Brown Deer Village President Wanda Montgomery joined Abele in an online news briefing advising citizens to continue staying at home to stop the spread of the respiratory infection.
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” It’s important that we support each other through this. Wash your hands. Make certain that you do not go out when it’s not necessary,” stated Montgomery, who noted Brown Deer has a number of hot spots.
” We still have individuals that are going out,” she stated, mentioning examples of moms and dads and kids going to school home to play basketball, and adding: “We’ve got to do better.”
The state order suggests school is out for the rest of the scholastic year, while numerous organisations will remain closed up until May 26, the day after Memorial Day.
” We understand that this is causing economic difficulty,” Barrett stated. “All you have to do is look at the unemployment claims and see the difficulties that small businesses are having and I am really considerate to that.”
Under the new state rules, golf courses might open and even services not considered essential will be permitted to carry out minimum operations such as deliveries and mailings.
” We’re not going to open the golf courses until it is 100%safe to do so,” Abele stated.
” I would enjoy to have the earnings,” he stated of opening the county links. ” I ‘d like to have the earnings that we get from the beer gardens, but the issue here is about security and that is constantly the top priority and it absolutely has actually come at an expense.”
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The county already made modifications in action to the financial fallout, including freezing brand-new hiring, delaying all raises and bonuses, and preparing to furlough about 200 seasonal staff members, Abele stated.
Signs of ‘flattening the curve’ in Milwaukee County
Although the county case stats stay troubling, there is reason for careful optimism.
The rate at which cases are doubling is now about every eight days, much slower than the one- or two-day doubling seen when infection very first took hold in the county, said Greenfield Health Officer Darren Raush.
” That is an indication that we are approaching flattening the curve, we are approaching that peak,” Raush stated.
Officials concurred expanded screening is an essential factor needed to ensure public health and permitting companies to safely resume.
” What I want to see is more community screening that will permit us to go to a few of these areas that are truly locations and do more screening in these locations, a number of which are not served by hospitals, doctors or offices,” Barrett said.
He referenced the efforts of Madison-based Specific Sciences, which is associated with a state collaboration to develop test kits for COVID-19 modeled on its existing at-home tests for markers of colon cancer.
” I want us to deal with the state of Wisconsin, with Precise Sciences, and see what we can do, not in weeks, however literally in days, to bring those test sets here, so that they can be executed in our community,” Barrett said.
COVID-19 updates from throughout Wisconsin
Coronavirus has touched every part of life, from the legal system to schools — and often both at the same time.
A high school trainee in Marquette County has actually sued her local sheriff after he threatened to take her or her family to jail for her post on Instagram warning that she thought she had contracted coronavirus.
The sophomore became ill after a spring break trip to Florida with her marching band and checked unfavorable for the virus. According to the lawsuit, medical professionals stated she likely was positive but tested too late.
An attorney for the constable stated the teenager “triggered distress and panic” sometimes when the county had no verified COVID-19 cases, calling the occurrence “absolutely nothing more than a 2020 variation of screaming fire in a crowded theater” in reference to speech that is not secured by the First Modification.
Statewide, the Department of Health Providers has reported 3,875 confirmed cases, consisting of 3 in Marquette County, and 197 deaths. More than 1,100 people have been hospitalized since the state began screening.
The pandemic has resulted in organizations adjusting and discovering more methods to return.
Although schools will remain closed for the rest of the year, the WIAA continued to discuss options for high school sports in the spring and summer.
The Wisconsin Bike Fed began a petition requiring low-traffic streets to be closed to cars and trucks and trucks to allow more room for pedestrians and bicyclists who need to maintain social range.
And Plymouth-based Sargento Foods revealed it is contributing $2 million in cheese– which equates to 15.8 million cheese sticks — to the Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee and the national food bank Feeding America.
” We want to do our part to deal with the growing problem of appetite and food insecurity throughout these difficult times,” Louie Gentine, the family-owned business’s president, said.
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