Doctors and health experts are no longer asking people to stay home for the holidays.

They are begging. jsonline.com/story/news/202… via @DaphneChen_ and @madeline_heim
@DaphneChen_ @madeline_heim Across Wisconsin, overflowing hospitals and spiking case rates are causing panic among health care workers and public health officials who are sounding the alarm that the state is about to enter the most dangerous period of the pandemic yet.
@DaphneChen_ @madeline_heim “The timing and confluence with what’s happening in Wisconsin, I don’t think could be worse,” said Amanda Simanek, epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
@DaphneChen_ @madeline_heim For health experts, Thanksgiving is a nightmare scenario in terms of respiratory disease transmission.

The holiday combines gathering indoors for prolonged periods of time, eating and drinking for hours and shouting at football games on TV — all likely without face masks.

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24 Nov
Kathryn Rogers has lived — and voted — in eastern Dane County for more than 50 years. Now, she's 82 and the president is trying to throw out her ballot.

"There aren't enough adjectives to describe what I'm thinking," she told me.

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John and Renae Feldner of McFarland also cast their ballots on Oct. 20. John Feldner, 70, a retired high school guidance counselor, said they waited in line for around 10 minutes. The couple also voted early in 2018.

"They counted last time, why wouldn't they count this time?"
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Some local health departments have abandoned tracing efforts beyond positive cases because of the surge in cases.
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4,389 new cases -- 70,205 active infections
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He says a big issue has been predominantly asymptomatic people who aren't limiting interaction with other people.
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