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MILWAUKEE DOCUMENTS SEVEN CORONAVIRUS CASES LINKED TO IN-PERSON VOTING
Akela Lacy at the Intercept
April 20 2020, 4:28 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/20/milwaukee-coronavirus-voting-election/
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THE CITY OF Milwaukee has identified seven positive coronavirus cases linked to in-person voting on April 7, according to a city health official.
Six people who voted in person in Milwaukee tested positive, as did one poll worker, Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik told The Intercept. Tuesday marks the two-week incubation period since the election. The citys health department is still missing a significant amount of data from ongoing investigations into the spread of the virus following the election, she said, but they expect a more complete picture by Friday.
Right now we have identified six cases that were tied to in-person voting. And one election worker was also positive, Kowalik said. There are a lot of missing data through the investigations and contact tracing, so were waiting for 70 percent of the fields to be populated.
The election-linked infections were identified through the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System, an existing statewide program for reporting communicable diseases, and a version of which exists in every state. After the election, state officials added a field to the system, which is used by health officials and includes a voluntary questionnaire for people with illnesses, to ask whether respondents had either worked or voted in person on Election Day, where they worked or voted, when they developed symptoms, and if they had gotten positive test results. That would be a flag for us, so thats how we found out that theres seven, Kowalik said.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This is si very wrong!
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)Anyone else get the feeling this is just the start?