Developing herd immunity is heralded as one pathway to containing the coronavirus pandemic. What is herd immunity, how is it achieved and will it work to contain COVID-19, the disease resulting from the coronavirus?
With fall arriving, winter on its way and COVID-19 still spreading in Wisconsin, people may be worried about what to do when the cold weather sends them indoors.
Calumet County and surrounding county residents have two more weekends, including Christmas Night, to attend the Delightfully Calumet Holiday Light Show at Hobart Park/Calumet County Fairgrounds located at 231 Chestnut Street in Chilton.
With the ending of the Wisconsin National Guard testing sites, Calumet County has secured ThedaCareMobile to administer COVID testing on an appointment basis.
Even as the nation saw an unprecedented drop in driving at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin recorded a significant increase in fatal car crashes and crash fatalities during the initial months of the crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a terrible impact: it’s killed nearly a million and a half people worldwide, and more than a quarter million in the United States.
Gov. Tony Evers, along with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, announced that restaurants and other targeted small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive $45 million in assistance, bringing the total assistance distributed to Wisconsin businesses this year to more than $220 million.
Highway departments from Brown and Calumet counties appear to be on the way to approving a speed limit decrease on Highway D where it crosses Man Cal Road, which is the county border.
There have been some accidents at that intersection, some of them bad, and part of the problem may be the current speed situation.
