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'Extreme loosening or dissolving' of pandemic restrictions possible by summer as vaccines guide reopening decisions in Dane County | 97 Seven Country WGLR - The Tri-States Best Variety of Country


By Madalyn O Neill
Mar 8, 2021 9:24 PM
MADISON, Wis. – As more people are vaccinated, Dane County public health officials say we’re entering “a new era of hope and possibility,” and that means focusing on new metrics when it comes to issuing public health orders focused on reopening.
“We have been data-driven since the beginning,” said Janel Heinrich, director of Public Health Madison & Dane County, which has been releasing data snapshots each week since last spring. “There were different models about what to look like and what data points might serve us well to help inform, probably more of the closing than the opening.” ....

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A year after COVID-19 transformed life in Wisconsin, pandemic toll widespread


DAVID WAHLBERG
A cascade of coronavirus cases and cancellations washed over Wisconsin and the Madison area a year ago this week, upending life for everyone and ushering in a state of physical distancing, economic downturn and unprecedented deaths for which the end may be near but remains unclear.
At the beginning of the second week of March last year, the state had reported only one case of COVID-19, a Dane County resident who tested positive more than a month earlier after returning from China. A second case was confirmed that Monday and a third on Tuesday. By Friday, March 13, the total was 19 cases, suggesting community spread, first suspected in the U.S. near Seattle, may have come here. ....

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