MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The office of a Wisconsin lawmaker who has been an outspoken critic of vaccine and mask mandates declined to update his condition on Tuesday, even as a fellow legislator asked for prayers, saying the state senator was hospitalized with COVID-19-induced ...
State data Monday showed seven new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County and five in Dickinson County since Friday. Across the border, Marinette County in Wisconsin added 16 confirmed cases over the weekend. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin residents who get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the state between Aug. 20 and Labor Day will receive a $100 gift card, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday. The reward being offered just as students are returning to school is the latest incentive in Wisconsin designed to entice the unvaccinated to get inoculated. As of Monday, just over 50% of the state’s entire population and 61% of adults 18 and up were fully vaccinated, according to the state health department. Many other states have offered similar programs to get more people ...
State data Friday showed the pace of COVID-19 activity escalating across the Upper Peninsula, with 144 new confirmed positives reported in the region in the past two days. State and local data Friday also showed a new death in Menominee County attributed to the virus. Gogebic County was ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Western Michigan’s two largest counties Friday ordered masks in schools through sixth grade, citing the risk of the COVID-19 delta variant and young children who don’t qualify for vaccines. The orders came from health departments in Kent and Ottawa counties. Teachers and staff members who are vaccinated still must wear masks in schools, the counties said. “We cannot afford another disrupted school year, so we all need to do our part to make sure that everyone remains healthy,” said Stefanovsky and Adam London, the health officer in Kent ...
Local health officials Thursday morning reported 20 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 12 more in Iron County in the past week. In addition to the new confirmed positives, the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department in its Facebook post listed 34 new probable ...
