State health officials said Wednesday that they will resume funding projects supported by $225 million in grants canceled by President Donald Trump’s administration, a day after they said they were putting the funds on hold.
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Federal officials pulled money from two COVID-19-related research projects at the University of Wisconsin last week, according to a declaration that is part of a challenge against widespread abrupt terminations of health funding.
Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsinites are more divided than ever on whether closing schools and businesses was appropriate, according to the results of a Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday.
Wisconsin’s upcoming respiratory disease season is forecasted to be milder than last season, a state epidemiologist told reporters Thursday.
Gov. Tony Evers on Monday urged Wisconsin voters to reject a Republican-backed push to amend the state’s Constitution to give the Legislature more say over the spending of federal dollars, following a fight between the governor and GOP lawmakers over COVID-19 relief money.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who led the federal health department under President George W. Bush, doesn’t think the country is ready for another pandemic.
A state effort to boost access to COVID-19 treatments ends Wednesday.
The Department of Health Services on Friday welcomed updated federal guidance that shortens isolation recommendations for COVID-19.
Wisconsin health system and hospital leaders say workforce shortages are abating, although challenges remain coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Milwaukee County will no longer move forward on a proposal to leverage federal COVID-19 relief funds to forgive low-income residents’ medical debt.
Nearly $500,000 will go to seven organizations providing mental health services to veterans, the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday.
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Cases of flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are on the rise. However, unlike last year, the diseases seem to be on a trend to peak around or after the holidays, rather than earlier, a state health official said Thursday.
