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Soon, likely in the next few weeks, the U.S. toll from the coronavirus will surpass one million. Through wave after wave, the virus has compiled a merciless chronology of loss, one by one by one.  Fond du Lac County Public  Health Officer Kim Mueller says a little more than two years ago Fond du Lac County recorded it's first COVID-19 deaths.  Meanwhile, federal data confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New data shows a sharp increase in Type 2 diabetes among children in Wisconsin and doctors think COVID-19 could be a factor. Figures from UW Health Kids shows a nearly 200% increase in the number of cases over the last several years. In 2018, 5.8% percent of pediatric patients with new onset diabetes at Madison’s American Family Children’s Hospital had Type 2, a disease that primarily […]

Experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. and wondering how long it will take to detect.   After several weeks of daily positive cases in the single digits Fond du Lac County reported it's first double-digit day this week.  But Fond du Lac County Public Health Services supervisor Laura Berndt says its too early to say its the beginning of a surge.   Statewide the Department of Health Services reported […]

Americans age 50 and older can get a second COVID-19 booster if it's been at least four months since their last vaccination.  The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for that age group and certain younger people with severely weakened immune systems.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later recommended the extra shot as an option but stopped short of urging those eligible […]

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that ivermectin, the horse drug, Joe Rogan championed as a COVID treatment, does nothing to cure the virus.    In the U.S., ivermectin prescriptions soared to 80,000 per week last August from a baseline of 3,600, prompting the CDC to issue a warning against using the drug.  The CDC said its poison control center had witnessed a fivefold increase in calls related to ivermectin […]

Fond du Lac County has topped 250 COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.  On Friday the Health Department reported six more COVID-19 deaths, including a 36 year old woman.  There have now been 251 deaths related to the virus in Fond du Lac County.

While the number of new positive COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin has been climbing this week the numbers in Fond du Lac County continue to remain low.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says three positive cases were reported Wednesday and one person is hospitalized in the county with COVID-19.  State Department of Health Services reported over 500 new confirmed cases Wednesday.

The vice president of Pharmacy Services with SSM Health Wisconsin Region says we may see COVID-19 cases start to rise again as a new coronavirus variant is making its way across the United States.   New data releaseed this week shows the BA2 variant is spreading more quickly in the Northeast and West and appears to be on its way to becoming the dominant coronavirus strain, having roughly doubled each week for the past month.  The […]

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic nobody is hospitalized with the virus in Fond du Lac County.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says when the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Fond du Lac County two years ago, one of the individuals was in the hospital and eventually became the first person in the state to die from the virus.