COVID Spread In FDL County Jail
18 February 2021 News
The Fond du Lac County Jail has its first known spread of the COVID-19 virus in the 11 months since the pandemic began. Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says it started with one inmate that didn’t feel well last week Wednesday. Testing revealed 8 of 15 inmates in that dorm were asymptomatic but tested positive for the coronavirus. Then another inmate in an adjacent dorm got sick Monday and although all 14 inmates in that dorm were asymptomatic 11 of them tested positive. Sheriff Waldschmidt says they were unable to determine when the first case in the dorm arrived with 17 of the 19 COVID positive inmates being asymptomatic. No other inmates have tested positive since and two symptomatic inmates are recovering with minor symptoms. Sheriff Waldschmidt says their correctional staff has done an incredible job under difficult circumstances.
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