Here & Now

Health Officials Remind Public That COVID Has Not Gone Away

Frederica Freyberg:

The other big story this week continues to be the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin. More than 700 people across the state have now died due to COVID-19. Health officials remind the public that frequent hand washing, social distancing and other precautions have not gone away.

Ryan Westergaard:

We can communicate and coalesce around the idea that adopting these infection prevention strategies, like wearing masks in public and maintaining physical distancing in public, I think there’s a lot of good that can be done. So it’s not a foregone conclusion that we are going to have a wave. There’s a lot we can do to prevent new cases going into the late summer and fall.