Here & Now

COVID Timeline, Flow of COVID in Wisconsin

Frederica Freyberg:

And finally tonight, from our partners at WisContext. The pandemic has continued for about ten months now, but the rate of new COVID-19 cases in different places around Wisconsin has ebbed and flowed over that time. Charts created by WisContext show a time line of how the rate of coronavirus cases grew in all 72 Wisconsin counties on a day-by-day basis. Starting in late March, when multiple cases first started being reported, these graphics illustrate the initial spring wave, the mid-summer spike and then the sustained autumn surge in cases. One graphic breaks down the case numbers by county population and another by their census status as urban, rural or in-between. A graphic that shows the pandemic’s course by age is similar to the first two. There’s also one that looks at geographic patterns, namely through the state’s hospital readiness regions. All of these charts are available at WisContext.org.