WisContext

• State Was a Leader in Handling AIDS

  Jun 28th, 2020 by Andy Soth

  Wisconsin less partisan and leaders had broad authority under law state Supreme Court recently overruled.

• 31 Cities in Wisconsin Saw Protests

  Jun 6th, 2020 by Will Cushman

  From Manitowoc to Marinette, Sun Prairie to Superior, demands of justice for George Floyd, police reform.

• Lessons Learned from Past Public Health Battles

  May 31st, 2020 by Andy Soth

  UW-Madison Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt discusses historical lessons for the current pandemic.

• Will Northwoods Vacations Spread COVID-19?

  May 23rd, 2020 by Ryan Weichelt and Ezra Zeitler

  Many owners of cabins come from hot spots like Milwaukee, Chicago, Twin Cities.

• City’s Smallpox Quarantine Created a Furor

  May 12th, 2020 by Andy Soth

  Back in the 1890s, Milwaukee’s clampdown on smallpox outbreak caused fear and fury.

• Wisconsinites Starting To Ignore Stay-At-Home Order

  Apr 30th, 2020 by Will Cushman

  State residents starting to experience “quarantine fatigue.”

• Wisconsin Was a Leader in 1918 Epidemic

  Apr 22nd, 2020 by Tessa Conroy

  Only state to do a widescale shutdown, and had a mortality rate far lower than the national average.

• State Races To Do More COVID-19 Testing

  Apr 1st, 2020 by Will Cushman

  But faces problem: shortage of everything.

• Why the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was So Huge

  Mar 29th, 2020 by Samantha Nash

  An estimated 50 to 100 million people lost their lives.

• Story of State’s First Coronavirus Case

  Feb 26th, 2020 by Will Cushman

  Nation’s 12th case; virus now being studied at UW-Madison research lab.

• Coronavirus and When to Wear Masks

  Feb 16th, 2020 by Will Cushman

  As the disease spreads, what do public health officials advise?

• How State May Handle Coronavirus

  Feb 9th, 2020 by Will Cushman

  How isolation and quarantine authority are used In Wisconsin