Author: Staff

With restaurants struggling to stay open and hospital staff working intensely long hours under stress, a late-night text message between friends Christina Wilson Berger and Preeth Kurudiyara resulted in an opportunity to help. The Feed Our Frontline Hospital Staff MKE GoFundMe campaign launched on March 28 and raised $12,605 of its $25,000 goal by April 2. The initiative is collecting donations to purchase meals from local restaurants that can be delivered to various hospital staff in the Milwaukee. More than 500 of these meals have already been served to area medical staff. Located in Westown district of Milwaukee, Alexa...

Milwaukee County elected officials leading the local response to COVID-19 announced on March 29 the opening of a temporary shelter for residents with housing instability as part of regional efforts to slow the spread of the virus. The shelter is a partnership with the Saint Francis de Sales Seminary and the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Beginning Monday, March 30, 2020, temporary beds will be open at Clare Hall at 3470 South Illinois Avenue in St. Francis. “Our efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 will determine the outcome of this crisis for tomorrow and for the foreseeable future, and...

The Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) rolled out a series of public service announcement (PSA) videos on March 26, with the goal of providing important information and guidance related to Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The City of Milwaukee has 304 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the largest concentrations in Central City and North Side neighborhoods with a high density of African-American residents. PSA videos can be viewed and accessed by visiting Facebook.com/MKEHealth. “While we are still gathering and analyzing all of the data, it is clear at this point that the communities being hit the hardest by this virus...