Wisconsin reports nearly 4,400 new COVID-19 cases, over 70,000 active infections Monday

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Wisconsin reports nearly 4,400 new COVID-19 cases, over 70,000 active infections Monday

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2020/11/16/wisconsin-coronavirus-state-reports-4-389-new-cases-12-deaths-monday/6314737002/

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel



Physicians at Advocate Aurora Health joined public health officials in calling for people to limit Thanksgiving dinners to people living in a household to help check the spread of the coronavirus throughout the state.

“Thanksgiving dinners have the potential to be super-spreader events,” said Robert Citronberg, a physician and executive medical director of Infectious Disease and Prevention at the health system. “It is so critically important that we do not that.

"The numbers are devastating right now," he said. “Our health care system cannot absorb the doubling or tripling of those numbers that might happen if we have many super-spreader events arising out of Thanksgiving,”

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Maggie Fuhrman, a physician assistant, watches as a man takes a rapid-result COVID-19 test at the UW-Milwaukee Student Union on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. University of Wisconsin campuses are offering free "surge testing sites" that provide rapid-result COVID-19 tests to off-campus community members, with the aim of alleviating the high demand for testing across the state.