8 Wisconsin Cities on List of Top 20 U.S. Cities Where COVID Cases Are Rising Fastest

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8 Wisconsin Cities on List of Top 20 U.S. Cities Where COVID Cases Are Rising Fastest

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By Jocelyn Grzeszczak On 9/16/20 at 5:07 PM EDT


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Two of those cities sat at the top of the list. La Crosse, located along the state's border with Minnesota, is the American city where cases are rising the fastest. It currently has 626 active cases, a sharp increase from the 130 active cases city officials had reported a week ago. Whitewater, about 45 miles southeast of Madison, placed number three on the Times' list with 406 active cases.

The other Wisconsin cities include: Green Bay; Beaver Dam; Oshkosh; Platteville; Appleton and Madison. The majority of these localities have a University of Wisconsin (UW) school within their city limits, WTMJ-TV noted. This could point to a possible reason for the sharp rise in cases.



On Sunday, UW-La Crosse ordered a 14-day quarantine of all its dorms and temporarily closed academic buildings, halting in-person undergraduate classes, in response to growing COVID-19 cases both on and off campus, the La Crosse Tribune reported. The university announced 105 new cases Friday and a total of more than 200 last week.

UW-Whitewater reported 54 new coronavirus cases as of September 16 and 139 cases the previous week, according to the school's COVID-19 dashboard.

UW-Madison is struggling to slow the spread on its campus, as at least seven percent of the school's 31,185 undergraduates have tested positive for the virus.........................................

Malia Jones, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the university, told the Wisconsin State Journal that evidence pointed to the fact that the outbreak has "bled into the community more broadly," with cases shooting up in Madison's Dane County.



UW-Oshkosh is also experiencing an alarming rise in case numbers, with 86 students testing positive on September 15, according to the school's COVID-19 dashboard. A total of 168 students have tested positive since September 2, meaning that more than half of the school's total cases were reported in just one day.

The two other schools, UW-Green Bay and UW-Platteville, are seeing much smaller cumulative positive tests, comparatively. ......................

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