Category Archives: ((WHBYAM) 1150 WHBY) COVID-19-WHBY
New COVID cases remain around 1500
New cases of coronavirus in Wisconsin remain around 15-hundred for a fourth straight day. There were 1,522 positive tests on Wednesday. The positivity rate was 23-percent. The D-H-S reports another 50...
Jan 20, 2021
Senate bill would require regular votes to keep schools closed
School boards would be required to vote every two weeks if they want to keep kids in all virtual learning under a bill introduced in the state Senate this week. Senator Eric Wimberger of Green Bay say...
Jan 20, 2021
Virtual series to promote positive health starts Monday
A free virtual ten week speaker series on positive heath strategies begins Monday. Appleton West High School is teaming up with Prevent Suicide Fox Cities and Catalpa Health. Prevent Suicide Board Pre...
Jan 20, 2021
Over 65 will get COVID-19 vaccine starting Jan. 25
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is announcing that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning January 25th. Right now, frontline health care workers, tho...
Jan 19, 2021
Lowest number of new COVID cases since mid-September
The number of new coronavirus cases in Wisconsin continue to fall. The state Department of Health Services reports 1,083 positive tests on Monday. That is the fewest new cases on a non-holiday since S...
Jan 18, 2021
Coronavirus numbers stabilize
Wisconsin adds another 2,269 new cases of coronavirus. The positivity rate today was 28-percent. The state Department of Health Services reports another 32-deaths–bringing the statewide total to...
Jan 15, 2021
Mask mandate extended
Governor Tony Evers is extending his mask mandate. The emergency declaration will remain in place for another 60-days. The current public health emergency and mask mandate were scheduled to expire nex...
Jan 15, 2021
ThedaCare CEO gets the coronavirus vaccine
ThedaCare President and C-E-O Doctor Imran Andrabi gets his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. As a non-frontline worker, Doctor Andrabi waited until those still seeing patients regularly were abl...
Jan 13, 2021
State Department of Corrections releases prison death numbers
The Department of Corrections is now providing the numbers of COVID-related deaths in each of the state’s prisons. The Oshkosh Correctional Institution has recorded four deaths. The Dodge Correc...
Jan 13, 2021
New coronavirus cases decline
Wisconsin sees a decline in the number of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The state Department of Health Services reports 2,134 positive tests–with a positivity rate of 29-percent. There wer...
Jan 13, 2021
