Tagged COVID-19

Milwaukee Health Department announces upcoming changes to COVID-19 services

March 17, 2023

Milwaukee Health Department Announces Upcoming Changes to COVID-19 Services MILWAUKEE – Following the announcement of the expiration of the federal emergency declaration on May 11, and the end of the Wisconsin...

Two weeks after dropping bus mask requirement, MCTS reinstates bus mask requirement

Matt Wild

October 14, 2022

Beginning today, masks are required on all Milwaukee County Transit System buses. Again. The news comes two weeks after MCTS dropped its previous mask requirement. And yeah, let's be honest, no one had been fol...

Mask up like it’s 2020: Milwaukee Health Department issues new mask advisory

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

Yep. Here's the press release. And yeah, it's "just" an advisory, not a mandate or whatever. On May 19, 2022, Milwaukee County moved into the CDC’s “high” level of COVID-19 community spread. This level is base...

No more mask requirement for MCTS buses (UPDATE: Oops, masks are required again)

Matt Wild

April 19, 2022

UPDATE: Never mind. Masks are required again. MCTS released this statement at 5 p.m. on Tuesday: The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) will continue to require riders to wear masks on County buses. The de...

Festa Italiana canceled for third year in a row

Matt Wild

April 8, 2022

For the third year in a row, Festa Italiana has been canceled. The popular summer festival previously canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Rose Anne Fritchie, Festa director and president ...

Notes from the beginning of a pandemic

Matt Wild

March 12, 2022

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon in March 2021. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks!I don't know if it's possible to pin ...

Pray for Milwaukee: Unenforceable mask mandate set to end in 19 days won’t end early

Matt Wild

February 9, 2022

This is how it ends, Milwaukee. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with two and a half more weeks of an unenforceable mask mandate that many Milwaukeeans are completely unaware of.In case you're one o...

Reminder: Milwaukee’s mask mandate is back in effect, so save the comments and just wear a mask

Matt Wild

January 24, 2022

What's funnier: the City of Milwaukee's latest indoor mask mandate that comes along ridiculously late in the game and that won't be enforced in any real way and that lasts a whole month, or people who are someh...

Milwaukee Common Council approves return of indoor mask mandate (through March 1)

Matt Wild

January 18, 2022

At a meeting Tuesday morning, the Milwaukee Common Council voted 12-1, with 1 abstention, to reinstate a citywide indoor mask mandate. If signed by Mayor Cavalier Johnson, the mandate will be in effect through ...

500,000 more free N95 masks are available at Milwaukee libraries and city testing sites

Matt Wild

January 13, 2022

UPDATE (1:30 p.m.) Well, that didn't last long. From the Milwaukee Health Department: "All N95 masks at the Milwaukee Public Library sites have been distributed. Individuals should not go to the libraries to ge...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Where to get a free COVID-19 test

Matt Wild

January 10, 2022

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places lifesaving measures come and go, while some places lifesaving measures become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-wor...

Return of Milwaukee mask mandate advances, awaits full Council approval

Matt Wild

January 7, 2022

At a meeting Friday morning, the Milwaukee Common Council's Public Safety & Health Committee voted 3-0, with 2 abstentions, to reinstate a citywide indoor mask mandate. The mandate still needs approval from...

Nearly a dozen Milwaukee-area health officials issue new COVID-19 public health advisory

Matt Wild

January 6, 2022

So it's pretty clear at this point that we're fucked, right? That there's no way out of this? That there are people who care about this and people who absolutely do not care about this? That, thanks to the peop...

Welcome to 2022. I hate it

Matt Wild

January 4, 2022

Hi. It's January 4, 2022. We're four days into a sparkling, glistening, still-has-that-new-year-smell new year. Twenty-twenty-two! It has a nice ring, doesn't it? Here we go!I hate it already.This post ...

Uncle Wolfie’s Breakfast Tavern will require proof of vaccination beginning Jan. 7

Matt Wild

January 3, 2022

Roughly 24 hours after Odd Duck announced it will require prospective diners to show proof of vaccination, Brewers Hill brunch spot Uncle Wolfie's Breakfast Tavern, 234 E Vine St., has announced a similar dine-...

Odd Duck will require proof of vaccination, first Milwaukee restaurant to do so

Matt Wild

January 2, 2022

Effective immediately, Milwaukee's Odd Duck restaurant, 2352 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., will require diners to show proof of vaccination before entering. It appears that the Bay View restaurant is the first dedicate...

Ahead of Omicron, Milwaukee issues another “mask advisory” (not a mandate)

Matt Wild

November 30, 2021

Here we go again. In "anticipation of future identification" of the Omicron variant, the City of Milwaukee Health Department has issued another "mask advisory" (not a mandate). The Health Department is once aga...

Get your second dose (not a booster) of the COVID-19 vaccine, get a $25 U.S. Bank gift card

Matt Wild

October 20, 2021

Have you gotten your first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine yet? Good. Have you gotten your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine yet? (Not a booster shot, mind you.) Well, if you haven't, the City of Milwaukee has a...

Milwaukee Health Department, health committee spar on indoor mask mandate

Matt Wild

September 30, 2021

Should the City of Milwaukee reinstate an indoor mask mandate? The Milwaukee Health Department and at least one member of the Common Council's Public Safety and Health Committee have some differing thoughts on ...

Club Garibaldi will require proof of vaccination or negative COVID test beginning August 28

Matt Wild

August 27, 2021

Club Garibaldi is joining the ranks of Milwaukee and Milwaukee-area venues requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for entry. Club Garibaldi's new policy begins Saturday, August 28."Effec...