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Kenosha County has seen a 20 percent spike in COVID-19 cases since the Safer at Home order ended in Wisconsin. Now health leaders are urging people to take precautions to help change the growing number of cases.
“My message for tonight is really to just implore Kenosha County residents that this is not business as usual. We are still very much on the rise,” said Dr. Jen Freiheit, interim health officer of Kenosha County.
Since March, a total of 1,061 people in Kenosha County have tested positive. 24 people have died of coronavirus.
Now, health officials are monitoring multiple outbreaks at local bars and restaurants.
“Today, alone, we saw several dining and drinking establishments that had seven positive cases. So these are employees of these dining and drinking establishments that are positive. And this is sort of the scenario that public health was afraid of,” said Freiheit.
Health leaders are also concerned about contact tracing, noting the difficulty of tracking down the potentially hundreds of people who came into contact with the bar and dining workers who are now COVID-19 positive.
Nice of these fine folks to put others at risk and take up valuable resources so they can go out and have a beer and some fries without a mask or socially distancing . Anything to own the libs I guess.
By the way, the cases are rising in the nursing homes as well. Golly, I wonder how that happened. Surely none of these people could have spread it to workers or others that brought it into nursing homes.
The fact is that people probably could have gone back to bars without this happening, at least not to this extent. But the employees and customers would have had to wear masks and not crowd each other and be careful. That was apparently too much to ask. So, people are dying.