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Thursday 8 OcTOber 2020
Wisconsin activates field hospital as COVID keeps surging

By TODD RICHMOND seven hospital regions.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wis- Nationwide, about 30,000
consin health officials an- coronavirus patients are
nounced Wednesday that hospitalized, the COVID
a field hospital will open Tracking Project reported.
next week at the state fair- The DHS reported 2,319
grounds near Milwaukee as new confirmed cases on
a surge in COVID-19 cases Wednesday and 16 more
threatens to overwhelm deaths. The state has now
hospitals. seen 138,698 cases and
Wisconsin has become a 1,415 deaths since the pan-
hot spot for the disease demic began.
over the last month, rank- Virus spread is particularly
ing third nationwide this rampant in northeastern
week in new cases per Wisconsin. The Green Bay
capita over the last two Packers announced this
weeks. Health experts have week that no home fans
attributed the spike to the would be admitted to
reopening of colleges and home games until the situ-
K-12 schools as well as gen- ation improved, and head
eral fatigue over wearing coach Matt LaFleur asked
masks and socially distanc- area residents to wear
ing. masks and practice social
State Department of Health In this Aug. 27, 2020, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during a news conference in distancing.
Services Secretary Andrea Kenosha, Wis. Associated Press. The U.S. Army Corps of En-
Palm told reporters during a gineers built a 530-bed
video conference that the in a statement. "This alter- closed public spaces. The had grown to 853, it's high- field hospital on the state
facility will open on Oct. 14. native care facility will take governor on Tuesday issued est during the pandemic fairgrounds in West Allis just
"We hoped this day some of the pressure off our new restrictions on the size according to the COVID outside Milwaukee in April
wouldn't come, but un- healthcare facilities while of indoor public gatherings Tracking Project, with 216 in at the request of Evers'
fortunately, Wisconsin is expanding the continuum through Nov. 6. intensive care. administration. Local lead-
in a much different, more of care for folks who have Only 16% of the state's Results of COVID-19 tests ers had warned about the
dire place today and our COVID-19." 11,452 hospital beds were on an additional 262 in- possibility of area hospi-
healthcare systems are be- The move also came as a available as of Tuesday af- patients in Wisconsin were tals being overwhelmed,
ginning to become over- state judge was consider- ternoon, according to the pending. The southeastern but hospitalizations never
whelmed by the surge of ing a lawsuit seeking to DHS. region of the state had reached the point where
COVID-19 cases," Demo- strike down Evers' mandate The number of hospital- 250 COVID-19 patients, the the hospital was needed

cratic Gov. Tony Evers said that masks be worn in en- ized COVID-19 patients most of any of the state's until now.q

Appellate judges let 2020

census continue through

October

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A of U.S. District Judge Lucy
panel of three appellate Koh's preliminary injunction
judges on Wednesday up- last month, and rejected
held a lower court order part of it.
allowing the 2020 head Koh's injunction suspended
count of every U.S. resident a Sept. 30 deadline for fin-
to continue through Octo- ishing the 2020 census and
ber. But the panel struck also a Dec. 31 deadline for
down a provision that had turning in numbers used to
suspended a year-end determine how many con-
deadline for turning in fig- gressional seats each state
ures used to decide how gets in a process known as
many congressional seat apportionment. Because
each state gets. of those actions, the dead-
The ruling by the three lines reverted back to a
judges on the Ninth Circuit previous Census Bureau
Court of Appeals in San plan that had field opera-
Francisco was a split deci- tions ending Oct. 31 and
sion for the Trump admin- the reporting of apportion-
istration and a coalition of ment figures at the end of
civil rights groups and lo- April.
cal governments that had Attorneys have indicated
challenged the administra- they would likely appeal
tion's 2020 census sched- the case to the U.S. Su-
ule. The ruling upheld part preme Court.q