It’s a fairly simple statistic but telling when it comes to COVID-19. “Here in La Crosse, I can speak for Mayo — 95%-plus of those that...
Signs and bullhorns and honking car horns marked a demonstration outside Gundersen in La Crosse on Tuesday, led by hospital workers fighting for their jobs against...
Less than a month ago, Holmen School Board members were not wearing masks at their meetings. But because of a surge of COVID, the board wanted...
Three months ago, the Coulee COVID-19 Collaborative stopped giving weekly updates. The collaborative between Mayo, Gundersen and the La Crosse County Health Department were encouraged by...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of fully vaccinated people in Wisconsin who were hospitalized with COVID-19 more than doubled from February to July, but the...
A third dose of certain COVID-19 vaccines is now being given to qualifying patients in the Mayo Clinic health system. The doses currently are intended for...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them...
When Washington supplies $50 million to Wisconsin farmers for economic relief from the pandemic, that’s not chicken feed. Roosters and dairy cows supplied some of the...
Gundersen Health System is aiming to have its entire staff vaccinated by Nov. 1. That’s the deadline requirement the healthcare giant has set for its employees....
Viterbo University is making up for cancelling a yearly celebration in 2020 because of COVID-19, by planning a fall ceremony to recognize two years’ worth of...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin’s rate of coronavirus cases on Monday reached a level not seen since the winter as the highly contagious delta virus variant fueled...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials on Monday reported the highest number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 since mid-May, along with five new deaths and 1,470...
Two weeks left for summer vacation for most La Crosse school students. The fall semester begins on September 1st, and for the first time in two...
The founder of La Crosse’s Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, is on a ventilator, due to COVID-19. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke is currently a Cardinal...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see...
La Crosse County has been rated as having a “high” COVID-19 transmission rate by the state, in part because of the fast-spreading Delta variant. COVID-19 cases...
La Crosse area hospitals are starting to fill up with COVID-19 patients again, because of the variant spreading across the country. Mayo doctor Joe...
The COVID pandemic has led La Crosse County to consider hiring a new health department staffer who would specialize in communicable diseases. On Wednesday, the county...
For a few weeks, the pandemic was easing up enough in the area for La Crosse County leaders to declare that county board members were required...
WINONA, Minn. — COVID-19 vaccines could be required in the near future at Saint Mary’s University. The school announced that the vaccine will be required for...