The surge in COVID-19 cases statewide is setting records on a regular basis, and the situation is the worst locally.
Appleton’s public health officer Kurt Eggebrecht says the Fox Valley region is the highest in Wisconsin for case rates and hospitalizations.
He’s calling the increase in patients at local hospitals “an alarming trend.” He says if it continues, local hospitals might have postpone elective surgeries because of space needs.
Winnebago County Public Health says the surge in the region is threatening the ability of schools to remain open, and companies to have healthy workers available. The department says young adults are spreading COVID-19 to other age groups at home, work, and school.
Eggebrecht stresses the virus hasn’t changed since the spring, when numbers were much lower. He says the virus hasn’t changed since then, and people can avoid catching it by avoiding close contact with others. He says it’s not inevitable that everyone in the community will get COVID-19, as long as they don’t intermingle with people outside of their household.
