“While we wait for widespread community access to a vaccine, testing remains an important tool. Written By: Michael Brun | ×
ELLSWORTH The popular COVID-19 community testing site at Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services will continue into 2021, the county health department announced Dec. 16.
The drive-through testing site administered by the National Guard operates Mondays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nasal swab tests are offered free to anyone with COVID-19 symptoms or who has been in close contact with a confirmed case. Parents must be present for minors ages 5-17.
Test results are available within a few days.
“While we wait for widespread community access to a vaccine, testing remains an important tool, Pierce County Health Officer AZ Snyder said in a news release. People who have been exposed to the virus or those with even the mildest of symptoms need to get tested because we need to find out if they re infected and if they ve been transmitting the virus t
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By Naomi Kowles
Dec 15, 2020 6:46 PM
It’s been several weeks since Sherman Martin, 70, collapsed in his home on Madison’s north side after testing positive for Covid-19. His family called 911; when he arrived at St. Mary’s Hospital, his oxygen was dangerously low.
“He was working pretty hard to breathe,” his attending emergency room physician Dr. Kyle Martin recalled. “He was also quite dehydrated, and that caused some kidney injury.”
Martin had spent the pandemic staying as safe as possible while working delivering newspapers or in food delivery and catering at Hyvee. Retired with ten children–eight adopted–he and his wife both tested positive for COVID-19. She was able to recover at home; after a few days, Martin found himself hospitalized. He told his doctors: Do whatever you have to do.
360: As vaccines are administered in Wisconsin, some people remain vaccine hesitant
Health officials insist that COVID-19 vaccines are showing to be safe and that no corners were cut in the development or approval of the vaccine now being administered, but not everyone is quite ready to receive one.
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MILWAUKEE â As the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccines are administered around the world, most doctors and health officials are encouraging anyone who is offered vaccination to take advantage of the opportunity, signaling that the vaccine could be a major step towards a return to normal in 2021.
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