Wisconsin's latest COVID19 data snapshot is an ugly one: a daily record of 104 deaths were reported Tuesday, said the state on Wednesday:
State reports record amount of new COVID-19 deaths in a single day
Other key numbers in the daily updates on the state's COVID19 dashboard; the total reported COVID death toll is 3,115 and the positive case total is 363,973.
Other key numbers in the daily updates on the state's COVID19 dashboard; the total reported COVID death toll is 3,115 and the positive case total is 363,973.
Here's another daily COVID19 data snapshot:
On May 13, the reported total state COVID death toll was 421 - far less than today's 3,115. The reported increase over the previous day's death count was 12 - not 104 - all charted, here - and the state's reported positive COVID case total stood at 10,902 - or about 3% of today's nearly 364,000, the data show.
Why look at May 13 COVID19 numbers?
Because that's the day on which a rightwing Wisconsin Supreme Court majority voted 4-3 to overturn Gov. Evers's 'Safer-at-Home' extension and restricted the administration's ability to control the pandemic, in a case brought by GOP legislative leaders Fitzgerald and Vos.
And by May 13, the GOP-run Legislature had been on fully-paid vacation for four weeks, had not offered the COVID19 control plan of their own they were purportedly working on - and still haven't - and may finally reconvene next month.
The Court, which continues to have a right-leaning majority, has yet to rule on whether Evers' can legally issue statewide masking orders.
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| Ruling expected soon |