NEW: Milwaukee health officials identify at least seven new cases of coronavirus that appear linked to the April 7 election—underscoring the risks of forging ahead with in-person voting during the height of the public health crisis.
, underscoring the risks of forging ahead with an in-person voting during the height of the widespread and deadly public health crisis.
"As of now, we only have 30 percent of the data as far as any new Covid-19 cases that were associated with the date of the 7th of April, which is when the election was held," she said."There needs to be a little bit more analysis so we can connect the dots, that's why case investigation and contact tracing is so important."
"There were people that were in line for a very long time to get their vote in, so if you figure out around a range of time when someone was there or in the polling sites or in the line, connect to someone who was an actual case, that's when we would do notifications," she said. Tuesday marks 14 days since in-person voting took place in Wisconsin's spring election, the time frame health experts give for symptoms to appear. The contest ultimately occurred after a chaotic series of emergency orders and legal challenges and against the backdrop of a country waging war with a surging global pandemic, with thousands of voters casting their ballots wearing masks and gloves and standing in long lines.
Shortly after the election, the Wisconsin state health department announced it will trace new cases of the coronavirus to determine if there is any connection between those emerging cases and Tuesday's election through the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System.
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