Wisconsin reports 84 deaths on Saturday as COVID-19 cases continue to fall
By FOX 9 Staff
(Wisconsin Department of Health Services)
(FOX 9) - As other COVID-19 numbers trend downward, Wisconsin reported 84 deaths on Saturday, the fourth highest single-day total since the start of the pandemic.
After dropping off from record highs earlier in the month, the seven-day average for COVID-19 deaths has started to rise again, data shows. After falling from a high average of 61 deaths on December 6 to 44 deaths on December 17, the average has once again climbed back up to 51.
Experts say death reports typically lag behind COVID-19 spikes, which may account for the continued high totals while cases keep going down.
Gov. Evers: Wisconsin is getting shorted on COVID-19 vaccine
By AP author
MADISON, Wis. - Add Wisconsin to the list of states told by the federal government that it will be receiving less COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech than initially expected.
This illustration picture taken in Paris on November 23, 2020 shows a syringe and a bottle reading Covid-19 Vaccine next to the Pfizer company logo. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)
Gov. Tony Evers said on Friday that the state was told on Thursday it will be receiving 35,100 doses of the vaccine, less than expected after 49,725 arrived this week. The Department of Health Services did not respond to messages about how much vaccine was expected.
A Raw Meat Sandwich Warning Draws Eyes on Wisconsin (and More Warnings)
Vimal Patel, New York Times
Dec. 18, 2020
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Please don’t eat the raw meat sandwich.
That message from Wisconsin’s health authorities, however straightforward, set off a wave of interest and even confusion outside the state this week about its so-called cannibal sandwich: Is this really a tradition? Is it just raw meat? And who is eating it?
“Our dirty little secret is out,” said Anna Altschwager, assistant director of guest experience at the Wisconsin Historical Society. “The health department is right to say what it said. Will it fall on a lot of deaf ears? Yeah.”
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The people who died were residents of Ashland and Sawyer counties.
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A model of the novel coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019. U.S. health officials have stated that COVID-19 is expected to become a significant public health concern in the United States. (Illustration courtesy of Centers for Disease Control)
Two Northwestern Wisconsin residents died from complications related to COVID-19, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported Saturday, Dec. 19.
The people who died were resident of Ashland and Sawyer counties. Their deaths brought the total in each county to 14 in Ashland County and 10 in Sawyer County.