Commonground
Senior Moderator
July 11, 2020
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Amid new daily records of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin and increasing hospitalizations, a state committee that has worked on ventilator triage guidelines took up other thorny topics expected to become more contentious in coming months: reopening of schools and distribution of anticipated coronavirus vaccines.
“School opening is an engine for all the other respiratory viruses,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a UW-Madison family medicine professor and member of the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee, which met online Thursday. “This is going to be a nightmare for our school districts.”
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Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Wisconsin have gone up this week, following a recent surge in cases, including a record 754 new cases reported Thursday amid a high level of testing. Statewide, 284 patients were hospitalized with the condition as of Thursday, up from 235 Saturday.
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Ventilator demand grew in early April to a peak of 375 patients on the breathing machines at hospitals statewide April 11, out of a total of about 1,200 ventilators, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association. Since then the number of ventilated patients at hospitals has ranged from about 275 to 350, with 294 using them as of Thursday.
...https://wausaupilotandreview.com/202...ool-reopening/
Excerpt:
Amid new daily records of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin and increasing hospitalizations, a state committee that has worked on ventilator triage guidelines took up other thorny topics expected to become more contentious in coming months: reopening of schools and distribution of anticipated coronavirus vaccines.
“School opening is an engine for all the other respiratory viruses,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a UW-Madison family medicine professor and member of the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee, which met online Thursday. “This is going to be a nightmare for our school districts.”
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Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Wisconsin have gone up this week, following a recent surge in cases, including a record 754 new cases reported Thursday amid a high level of testing. Statewide, 284 patients were hospitalized with the condition as of Thursday, up from 235 Saturday.
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Ventilator demand grew in early April to a peak of 375 patients on the breathing machines at hospitals statewide April 11, out of a total of about 1,200 ventilators, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association. Since then the number of ventilated patients at hospitals has ranged from about 275 to 350, with 294 using them as of Thursday.
...https://wausaupilotandreview.com/202...ool-reopening/