The developing coronavirus crisis in Wisconsin established a new one on Friday, and the state reported 3,861 new cases.
The coronavirus outbreak in the state has reached new heights in recent days: the seven-day average reached 3,000 on Friday, about 3 weeks after surpassing 2000.
The State Department of Health Services reported 21 deaths, bringing the death toll to 1,574.
As of Friday afternoon, another 1,101 people were hospitalized with coronavirus in the state, and another 274 people were added in extensive care units. Both figures were historical highs.
The number of coronavirus patients in hospital care tripled in one month.
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Friday’s knowledge is the last thing the state would report before a planned online page outage over the weekend, meaning citizens will be temporarily in the dark at a time when new cases and deaths are coming faster than since the start of the pandemic.
The state’s internal reporting formula will be deactivated on Saturday, Sunday, and in all likelihood Monday for updates, mandatory due to the “massive accumulation of data” related to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, according to a DHS spokesperson.
More than part of all pandemic-positive tests have been reported since September 1, according to research through the Journal Sentinel.
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Of the 166,000 tests in Wisconsin, more than 90,000 have been conducted since early September.
The avalanche of new cases has led to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths, which fitness officials say will be accentuated in the coming weeks as newly inflamed patients expand severe symptoms.
In Winnebago County, which has been severely affected, a third of the virus’s deaths have occurred in the two weeks.
“We have an out-of-control spread that threatens all facets of network life,” the Winnebago County Department of Health said in a statement. “The use of voluntary respect to curb the spread of the disease continues to fail. “
The crisis has tested Wisconsin’s health infrastructure, putting hospitals almost at full capacity, leading to widespread shortages and overwhelming contact-seeking efforts.
A cash hospital established this week in State Fair Park, known as a care center of choice, is intended to reduce the bed area in hospitals and treat patients who want a point of decline in hospital care.
Loose Wisconsin National Guard sites on the north and south sides of Milwaukee will close after Saturday when the Guard moves its operations to other parts of the state.
Local leaders are expected to open a central check Monday in Miller Park and have also opened two networks for loose checks: Northwest Health Center, 7630 W. Mill Road, and Southside Health Center, 1639 S 23rd St. No appointments required .
More than 1. 7 million other people have been screened state-round for the virus. Of the 166,186 Wisconsin residents who tested positive:
Among the new cases of COVID-19, Waukesha County Director Paul Farrow said he tested positive on Friday and had mild symptoms.
The United States has reported more than 8 million cases and 217,700 deaths, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins.
The United States is now the only successful country in 8 million coronavirus cases, less than a month after reaching 7 million, in the midst of an outbreak that has led to an increase in the number of cases in 41 states over the following week. according to an analysis by USA TODAY.
A rehabilitation unit for hospitalized patients at Froedtert Hospital, where stroke, injury, disease and surgery patients have been affected by an outbreak of COVID-19. At least 15 other people, staff and patients, were sick on Friday.
Wauwatosa Hospital examined the entire unit for the virus last Saturday after discovering that several others had contracted VOCD-19, according to hospital spokesman Stephen Schooff. Patients who tested positive were transferred elsewhere and members with positive effects were quarantined.
The source of the outbreak has still been determined, Schooff said.
The hospital suspends new admissions to the unit until more is known and also prohibits them.
Froedtert had examined all patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19, but not staff members, resources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. in an app, they said.
Also friday, Gov. Tony Evers faced a third lawsuit challenging his authority to factor emergency orders to combat legislative approval of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jeré Fabick, a Republican donor and political adviser to the conservative Heartland Institute living in Waukesha County, has asked the state Supreme Court to take the lawsuit, arguing that Evers overstepped its authority by issuing new emergency orders after the expiration of its initial fitness. Emergency.
The lawsuit, like others opposed to Evers, argues that the governor factors new emergency orders because the urgency – in this case, the pandemic – is the same threat.
State law states that governors may consider fitness emergencies for 60 days, at which point the Legislature will have to approve an extension. Ever argued that it can simply take into account new emergencies because the risk of the pandemic has changed, similar to emergency declarations in separate floods in the same river.
The trial comes the same day, in the meeting with majority leader Jim Steineke, Republican by Kaukauna, who said the Legislature would convene a consultation to vote against the governor’s fitness emergency.
Also this week, Evers used the cash raised in a retirement that opposed him for a six-figure announcement made before the November election, criticizing President Donald Trump and Republican legislative leaders for what the governor calls opposing the pandemic.
Evers has criticized Republican legislative leaders in recent days for suing him for his coronavirus policy and for refusing to provide him with a plan they would agree to use to combat the spread of the virus.
Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald rejected the announcement, saying Evers politicized the pandemic and sought to blame lawmakers for the worsening situation. Ever hasn’t spent all the aid investment under federal CARES law, Fitzgerald said, and thousands of people in Wisconsin have waited weeks or months for unemployment benefits due to pandemic-related task losses.
Trump planned to hold a demonstration of thousands of people in a Janesville air hangar on Saturday night.
Janesville is in Rock County, which has a “very high” disease burden, according to DHS data, with more than 3,800 positive tests and 38 deaths in the county since the start of the pandemic.
The occasion will be held at an airport on the outskirts of Janesville and will require participants to park miles away and take transportation for the occasion, according to the Janesville Gazette, another fitness threat, a pandemic.
According to Trump’s campaign, “participants will get temperature control, mask that they will be invited to wear and will have to disinfect hands. “
Matt Piper of USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin and Raquel Rutledge of the Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
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