by Kevin Zimmermann
(WHBL) – When National Guard troops were dispatched on Monday to test inmates at the Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution near Greenbush – accompanied by four more cases of COVID-19 than previous weeks – it looked like another round of the coronavirus could be spreading through the population. However, John Beard, the Director of Communications for the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, told us that this isn’t the case.
The case total at the facility had been stable at 868 since early November when the County Division of Public Health stopped including their statistics in the daily reports. However when National Guard testing teams were sent there on Monday, the case total was up to 872.
Beard said that the testing this week was “routine”, for lack of a better word, and was being done because the institution is in an area with a high level of community spread, and because KMCI had experienced outbreaks in the past. As of Wednesday, no additional cases were seen in the Department of Corrections dashboard for KMCI.
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