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Wisconsin’s year of COVID-19 has featured one milestone after another, many of them disturbing to people in the state and here in the Northwoods.
Here’s a look back at the timeline of how Wisconsin went from COVID-free to a half-million cases, with plenty of tension, confusion, and sickness along the way.
2020
February 5: Wisconsin reports its first case of COVID-19, found in a person who had just returned from Beijing.
March 13: Gov. Tony Evers closes all schools for two and a half weeks.
March 19: Wisconsin reports its first two deaths from the disease.
March 24: Evers orders people to stay at home and nonessential businesses to close as part of his Safer at Home order. It’s not “something I thought we’d have to do. It’s not something I wanted to do. It’s not something I take lightly,” Evers says.
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National Guard has been Wisconsin s Swiss Army Knife in coronavirus pandemic Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL Members of the Wisconsin National Guard walk to their positions to assist people at a newly established COVID-19 testing facility at United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS), 2701 S. Chase Ave., in Milwaukee on Monday, May 11, 2020.
On a recent sunny morning, a line of vehicles inched up to a large white tent in a mall parking lot where people dressed like Apollo astronauts extended long Q-tips through windows and into countless nostrils.
The people inside the cars and vans wanted to know if they were infected with the contagious virus that has rapidly spread throughout the world.