Another day, another number that shows that coronavirus positives in Wisconsin are falling.
The state’s Department of Health Services’ numbers show positives have fallen nearly 70-percent since last month’s peak. On November 18th, DHS reported the state’s week-long average was nearly eight-thousand positives. Yesterday, that seven-day average fell to just over 26-hundred. DHS is reporting drops in positives in every single age group in the state.
However, at the same time that we are seeing those numbers drop, there are the people and families affected by deaths and loss. Wisconsin is setting a new record for COVID-19 deaths in one day.
The health department reports 120 deaths in the last 24 hours. That breaks the record of 107 deaths set on December 1st. Eight deaths were reported yesterday. Over 45-hundred Wisconsinites have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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When it comes to the national level and relief package, President Trump is calling on Congress to raise the economic stimulus checks for Americans from 600 dollars to two-thousand dollars.
In a video yesterday, Trump said he’s asking Congress to amend the coronavirus relief bill passed Monday and increase what he called “the ridiculously low” direct payment of 600 dollars to two-thousand dollars per person, or four-thousand per couple. He also complained about other items in the bill that includes government funding.
If Trump vetoes the bill, there could be a partial government shutdown at midnight Sunday.
