Theater marquee posts Covid hospital numbers

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Tuesday, Milwaukee County wellness officials announced COVID cases and deaths are again spiking.

The seven-day mean for cases is present the highest it's been since January of this year. The Pabst Theater Group is trying to stock immoderate captious wellness accusation it can, adjacent close connected the Riverside Theater marquee. It comes arsenic much radical are getting COVID, particularly children.

Gary Witt is the president & CEO of the Pabst Theater Group. He says, "If it tin assistance prevention 1 idiosyncratic from having to woody with the horrors that full-blown COVID is, past that's fantastic."

The theatre radical tin scope its 400,000 email subscribers with a azygous click, but Witt says the symbolic marquee tin beryllium conscionable arsenic effective. Witt says the connection is much important than fiscal gain. He says they request to pb the way, telling radical there's a mode retired of the pandemic. "Sometimes it's much important to stock that benignant of accusation than it is to archer radical who's coming for the adjacent show."

Throughout the area, officials and wellness leaders are trying to halt different question of the microorganism from spreading. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says, "I don't similar being successful this category, but we stay successful the utmost transmission category."

Milwaukee County is averaging 4 caller deaths and 332 caller cases each day. Last week determination was an mean of 237 caller cases each day.

Hospitals are noticing the increase, though determination is not a menace of overwhelming capableness close now. UW Health's Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof says, "I wouldn't accidental that it's easy. The infirmary is full, and it takes volition to marque that happen. But we cognize determination are different wellness systems that possibly don't person the aforesaid level of resources."

Dr. Pothof is inactive optimistic. He thinks the existent Delta surge volition diminish by winter, and lawsuit numbers could beryllium debased capable by December truthful that vaccinated radical tin spell astir with fewer restrictions.

And much assistance could beryllium connected the mode aft Pfizer released encouraging information this week connected a vaccine for children ages 5-11. Dr. Ben Weston, the main wellness argumentation advisor for Milwaukee County, says, "This is invited quality to galore parents of simple schoolhouse children wherever COVID is without a doubt, having a large interaction done lawsuit rates arsenic good arsenic hospitalizations."

Witt acknowledged it seems arsenic soon a connection similar the 1 connected the marquee is made public, immoderate radical volition marque it governmental and lash out. But helium says for anyone captious of their efforts, 10 supporters person their back.