The medical examiner’s office hasn’t completed toxicology reports for all the deceased. But officials believe fentanyl-laced street drugs are the main culprit.
City of Milwaukee to end health ordinance, mask mandate, on June 1st
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett made the announcement this afternoon.
“I have pledged, we have pledged, to follow the science and the evidence so when the CDC announced that vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks, I felt, and the health commissioner felt, we should do what we’ve done and follow the CDC guidance,” Barrett said during a virtual press conference this afternoon.
The city’s health order was set to expire on June 15th. The Mayor said the decision to move it up to June 1st, and not, say, May 18th, was to give businesses and organizations time to figure out what the expiration of the emergency order means for them, and to put their own precautions in place if they choose.