CDC Study Shows No COVID-19 Spike from Wisconsin’s April Elections

[libertybele]

CDC Study Shows No COVID-19 Spike from Wisconsin’s April Elections

Despite fears that Wisconsin’s April election would serve to spread the coronavirus, a new report by the Centers for Disease Control confirms that it didn’t.

Symptoms of COVID-19 typically develop 2 to 14 days after an infection. Yet the CDC notes that only 14 people out of nearly 19,000 who voted in person in Milwaukee on April 7 are known to have tested positive for the virus between April 9 and April 21, with the caveat that in about half of the new cases reported in Milwaukee during that time period, whether the person voted is unknown.

Although the CDC report focuses on Milwaukee, there do not appear to have been spikes in cases anywhere else in the state due to the election, either.

According to Elizabeth Goodstitt, a spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, “71 people who tested COVID-19 positive” throughout the state between April 9 and April 21 “reported that they voted in person or worked the polls on election day. However, several of those people reported other possible exposures as well.” Thus, she says, “it is not accurate to say” that the 71 cases were the “result of in-person voting,” because some infections could have come from other sources..........

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/cdc-study-wisconsin-elections-caused-no-coronavirus-spike/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

[Fishrrman]

Then let the November elections roll...

[libertybele]

Then let the November elections roll...

I don't see that happening, the DEMS want mail-in voting; they can't let a COVID opportunity go to waste.

[LadyLiberty]

We voted in a runoff election one month ago just as TX was started to ramp up in new infections and we were being warned about how terrible it was going to get. The doors were automatic, so no touching there, then we were in a very wide hallway with marks for social distancing.  Everyone was wearing masks.  We brought our own pens to sign the book.  First time to use new touchscreen voting machines, and they gave us our very own sterile high - tech stylus (a q-tip, lol) so there was no need to touch the screen.   It felt very safe, and I am not at all worried about voting in person in November. 

Better yet, my choice for the runoff for US House of Rep, who spent less than $500k, won by a margin of 70% - 30% over a carpetbagger who spent $7 million.

[libertybele]

We voted in a runoff election one month ago just as TX was started to ramp up in new infections and we were being warned about how terrible it was going to get. The doors were automatic, so no touching there, then we were in a very wide hallway with marks for social distancing.  Everyone was wearing masks.  We brought our own pens to sign the book.  First time to use new touchscreen voting machines, and they gave us our very own sterile high - tech stylus (a q-tip, lol) so there was no need to touch the screen.   It felt very safe, and I am not at all worried about voting in person in November. 

Better yet, my choice for the runoff for US House of Rep, who spent less than $500k, won by a margin of 70% - 30% over a carpetbagger who spent $7 million.

Of course this is a way to social distance and vote. Every one required to wear a mask. As you stated; marks for social distancing. Hand sanitizer wipes at the sign in desk. Hand sanitizer wipes at each voting booth for touch screens with garbage cans.  Hand sanitizer at the door(s).  It's not brain surgery.