{"id":8590,"date":"2020-07-30T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:18:06","slug":"notes-from-the-field-public-health-efforts-to-mitigate-covid-19-transmission-during-the-april-7-2020-election-%e2%80%95-city-of-milwaukee-wisconsin-march-13-may-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/notes-from-the-field-public-health-efforts-to-mitigate-covid-19-transmission-during-the-april-7-2020-election-%e2%80%95-city-of-milwaukee-wisconsin-march-13-may-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Field: Public Health Efforts to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission During the April 7, 2020, Election \u2015 City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 13\u2013May 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wisconsin, the first state to hold an election with in-person voting after stay-at-home orders were issued, observed no clear increase in cases, hospitalizations, or deaths after the election. Various mitigation strategies, in line with the CDC guidance and additional measures, were implemented in Milwaukee to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at in-person polling venues.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These data provide preliminary evidence that CDC\u2019s interim guidance for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">precautions at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0voting\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sites<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">including<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0encouraging physical distancing, personal prevention practices, and employing environmental cleaning and disinfection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0lower COVID-19 transmission risk during elections.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This report concludes that f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">urther risk reduction can be achieved by fully implementing CDC interim guidance, which recommends longer voting periods, and other options such as increasing the number of polling locations to reduce\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">density in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indoors in polling locations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Paradis et al. (July 31, 2020). Notes from the Field: Public Health Efforts to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission During the April 7, 2020, Election \u2015 City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 13\u2013May 5, 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6930a4\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6930a4<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin, the first state to hold an election with in-person voting after stay-at-home orders were issued, observed no clear increase in cases, hospitalizations, or deaths after the election. Various mitigation strategies, in line with the CDC guidance and additional measures, were implemented in Milwaukee to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at in-person polling venues.\u00a0\u00a0 These&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/notes-from-the-field-public-health-efforts-to-mitigate-covid-19-transmission-during-the-april-7-2020-election-%e2%80%95-city-of-milwaukee-wisconsin-march-13-may-5-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}