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 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayo Clinic Health System ― Red Cedar in Menomonie is offering a drive-thru testing location, beginning Wednesday, March 25. This location is for current Mayo Clinic Health System patients who meet criteria for COVID-19 and are referred for testing. Mayo Clinic Health System patients experiencing COVID-19 symptoms should take these steps: ·         Call your Mayo Clinic Health System primary care clinic or provider for a phone screening. Your provider or nurse will direct you to the dedicated

Monroe County is confirming its first case of COVID-19. The Monroe County Health Department yesterday said the man is in his 50s with no known exposure or contact with a confirmed case. The health department says the man is now isolated at home. Director Sharon Nelson says the county has been preparing for a confirmed case of COVID-19. Western Technical College in La Crosse is donating supplies to help medical workers protect themselves from COVID-19. Dean of Health and Public

The Eau Claire Police Department is trying to protect officers from the spread of COVID-19. The department says they’ve issued personal protection equipment for all officers to wear on calls. Chief Matt Rockus says the department is looking at ways for less in-person contact so officers can avoid the potential of getting coronavirus and continue to protect the community. Chief Rockus says one of those ways is asking citizens to speak outdoors with a little distance.

An Eau Claire hospital is taking steps to protect mothers and newborns from the spread of COVID-19. H-S-H-S Sacred Heart Hospital is limiting the number of visitors for each woman in labor to one person. The hospital says newborns are at a higher risk for COVID-19. Nurse Kayla Lombard says the hospital is also screening all patients, visitors, and staff members to protect everyone at the hospital. 

If you don’t stay at home for the next month, Wisconsin’s top public health official says tens of thousands of people could get sick and more than a thousand could die. Department of Health Services boss Andrea Palm yesterday predicted that if people ignore Governor Tony Evers’ ‘Safer at Home’ order, 22-thousand people would get sick with the coronavirus in the next two weeks and 15-hundred people would die. As of yesterday, 457 people in Wisconsin are sick with the coronavirus. Just five

Add the Eau Claire Marathon to the list of things postponed because of the coronavirus. Race organizers yesterday said they are moving the marathon back to September. There is no way they could hold the race with social distancing requirements in place. The race was originally set for May 2nd and 3rd. The race will not be held September 26th and 27th.

We now know more details of the car removed from a river. It was on March 20th just before 3am. When the Eau Claire Communications Center received information about a vehicle that had entered the Chippewa River. A witness had observed a vehicle travel westbound on Gilbert Avenue and enter the Chippewa River.   Despite delays due to high water, crews worked to recover the vehicle and continued investigation showed that the car did not brake before entering the water.

As our lives are uprooted the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Great Chippewa Valley are doing great things and providing meals. Below is an updated calendar of times and locations.

Life may be inconvenienced a bit but not totally halted with the Safer at Home initiative authorized by Governor Tony Evers. The governor said today the state is not in total lock-down and essential businesses like healthcare, those that provide food, shelter and social services, pharmacies, grocery stores, gas stations, banks, laundromats, child care facilities and much more will remain open.  The initiative is to encourage people to stay home and limit contact with others for the next several weeks