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What are the risks of a summer COVID surge?

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

May 20, 2022 • Northern Region

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Laura Sauve, health officer for Barron County, discusses another rise in COVID-19 cases and what high community transmission means given vaccination rates and hospital capacity in northwest Wisconsin.

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