A COVID-19 outbreak has been reported in the Fond du Lac County Jail. Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says 17 of the 19 inmates in a dorm-style housing unit who tested positive for COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Waldschmidt says he’s unsure when the first case arrived in the dorm or how it was transmitted. He says the virus could have been spread by an asymptomatic employee, or an inmate testing positive to a COVID positive person in a courtroom. Waldschmidt says it is the first instance of known spread among inmates in the jail in 11 months since the pandemic began.
