The 2,367 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday bring Wisconsin’s statewide total since the pandemic began to 119,955.
Health officials in Wisconsin sounded the alarm on Tuesday as the state reported a nearly 22 percent positivity rate of COVID-19 test results reported over the last day in the state. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services added 2,367 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday with 8,397 tests coming back negative since Monday. The new infections bring the state’s total number of cases to 119,995 and total number of deaths to 1,300. The state health department’s chief medical officer, Ryan Westergaard, said during a Tuesday news conference also attended by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and the health department’s secretary-designee, Andrea Palm, that Wisconsin’s infection, hospitalization and death rates are all likely to get worse if citizens’ attitudes toward virus restrictions do not improve. « We are in a crisis right now, » Westergaard said. « Turning the corner on this requires that we do things dramatically different than what we’re doing. It requires all of society, all of Wisconsin, to do things differently to reduce the transmission.
