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Tue Dec 21, 2021, 02:42 PM Dec 2021

WI Issues Health Advisory on Omicron Variant Ahead of Holidays: Marshfield had 35 pts DIE/4wk period



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State Issues Health Advisory on Omicron Variant Ahead of Holidays


Public health officials on Monday once again sounded the alarm about the growing number of coronavirus cases in the state, issuing a public health advisory about the growing Omicron variant and renewing their call for the unvaccinated to get the shot and wear masks when indoors and surrounded by people one doesn't live with.

Wisconsin’s seven-day average of new daily confirmed COVID-19 cases has grown to 3,294, reported Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. That figure is nearly double where the state was two months ago. The state’s total confirmed deaths have reached 9,638. There are currently 19 confirmed Omicron cases in Wisconsin, and the variant last week accounted for 40% of the virus samples sequenced by the state Hygiene Lab.

“We are seeing daily case numbers that we haven’t seen since the end of last year. High rates of COVID-19 transmission are occurring in all Wisconsin counties, and that trajectory is growing,” Timberlake said Monday in a call with reporters, stressing that hospitals are still filling up. “We are at another critical moment in this pandemic … What each of us chooses to do in the next few weeks really matters.”

Dr. William Melms, chief medical officer for Marshfield Clinic Health System, noted that the only reason the number of COVID-19 patients in the network’s nine hospitals hasn’t grown even more is because so many of those patients are dying from the virus.
"We just went through a four-week period here at our main hospital in Marshfield where we had 35 patients die of COVID," Melms said.

—Reported by Cara Spoto
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WI Issues Health Advisory on Omicron Variant Ahead of Holidays: Marshfield had 35 pts DIE/4wk period (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2021 OP
If it's the unvaccinated Jilly_in_VA Dec 2021 #1
35 dead in a town of 20,000? Botany Dec 2021 #2
Marshfield pulls in people from a 20 mile radius easily Ellipsis Dec 2021 #3
thanx .... I figured you have some rural and semi rural areas around the town Botany Dec 2021 #4
yep. 20 easy. Tetrachloride Dec 2021 #5
OUR SERVICE AREA ewagner Dec 2021 #6
It's a world class clinic and they are fortunate to have access to such talented professionals. Ellipsis Dec 2021 #7

Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
1. If it's the unvaccinated
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 02:46 PM
Dec 2021

it could still be Delta they're dying from. I mean, really. Have they tested? These idiots. They don't get vaxxed, they're gonna get it and some of them are gonna die. It's that simple.

Ellipsis

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3. Marshfield pulls in people from a 20 mile radius easily
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 03:05 PM
Dec 2021

...many people west of Marshfield and there's lots of tiny towns in the area. Lots of red in that neck of the woods.

ewagner

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6. OUR SERVICE AREA
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 03:54 PM
Dec 2021

Is about 35-40K and we span both Wood and Marathon Counties.

I suspect some are "Marshlanders" but most are from the surrounding areas.

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