Timeline: One year of COVID-19 in Dane County
February 1, 2021 8:58 PM Gabriella Bachara
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MADISON, Wis.– This week marks one year since the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in Dane County. Here’s a look at what’s happened since.
BREAKING
“For all of these reasons, I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of #2019nCoV.”-@DrTedros
February 5, 2020: The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced the state’s first person with coronavirus. The person was from Dane County and had recently traveled to China. The person went straight from the airport to UW Hospital in Madison on January 30. The person was tested for coronavirus and sent home to isolate. City and county leaders said the risk of the general public contracting the virus remained low.
New face, same debate
Chief Shon Barnes says âtrust is like building a sand castle one grain at a timeâ
Freedom Inc.
Black Lives Matter activists painted DEFUND POLICE in front of the City County Building this summer and no effort has been made to remove it.
Dr. Shon Barnes was sworn in Feb. 1 at the Madison Municipal Building. As Madisonâs new police chief crossed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to his office at the City County Building, he must have noticed the feet-high yellow letters that spell out âDefund Policeâ painted on the pavement by protesters this summer. Barnes says it s âoften easy to direct frustrationâ about the failures of government at law enforcement.Â