The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing racial healthcare disparities. In an attempt to lessen those disparities, the foundation partnered with the Public Health Madison and Dane County to promote community COVID-19 safety education, mask distribution, expanded testing and quality care and access for highly impacted communities, Stevenson said.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, communities of color experience higher rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Though Black residents make up only 6.4% of the state’s population, they account for a total of 11.8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
A cause for this disparity is the stress and tension Black individuals face in their daily lives due to societal inequities, which McGranahan said can impact their immune system through epigenetics.
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MADISON, Wisconsin The pendulum of statewide political power swung back toward the fulcrum on Wednesday when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Gov. Tony Evers’ repeated use of emergency declarations to control the COVID-19 pandemic was illegal, thus ending the statewide face-mask mandate.
The ruling in
Jeré Fabick vs. Tony Evers was the latest salvo in a running battle between the Democrat governor, whose COVID-19 mitigation strategy relies heavily on executive mandates, and Republican lawmakers, who have not only refused to approve Evers’ emergencies, but voted in early February to end the latest one. Hours later, Evers
By Taurean Small Washington, D.C. UPDATED 3:38 PM ET Mar. 31, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:18 AM ET Mar. 31, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:18 AM EDT Mar. 31, 2021
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WASHINGTON, D.C. A recently-released study shows Wisconsin was among 20 states that are well-prepared to handle public health emergencies.
The report by Trust for American’s Health, a Washington D.C.-based nonpartisan public health policy organization, ranked the preparedness performance of states based on 10 indicators including nurse licensure, hospital participation in healthcare coalitions, flu vaccination rates and public health funding.
John Auerbach, the president and CEO of the organization says Wisconsin checked quite a few of those boxes.
“Relative to other states, Wisconsin had a number of the indicators that would show it was well prep
COVID variants
As of Tuesday, March 30, there are 12,053 cases of the three COVID-19 variants in the United States, up 4,272 over the past week. Those are the United Kindom (B.1.1.7), South African (B.1.3.5.1), and Brazil (P.1) variants.
Sixteen states now have all three variants circulating in their populations. Those states are Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, California, Massachussetts, Georgia, Maryland, Texas, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, Indiana and Maine.
There are 11,569 cases of the United Kingdom variant in 51 states and territories, an increase of 4,068 cases. As of Tuesday, Mar. 30, there are 78 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant in Wisconsin. There are 218 confirmed cases in Illinois, 526 confirmed cases in Minnesota, 1,237 confirmed cases in Michigan, and 89 confirmed cases in Iowa. Michigan remains second in the nation for UK variant cases in the last week, exceeded only by Florida with 2,351 cases.