Health officials in Milwaukee reported on Monday that seven people are thought to have contracted COVID-19 through activities related to state’s controversial April 7 primary election.
The city’s health commissioner, Jeanette Kowalik, noted that six of the cases are voters, while the other is a poll worker.
“There needs to be a little bit more analysis so we can connect the dots, that’s why case investigation and contact tracing is so important,” Kowalik said, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
She added: “As you recall, there were people that were in line for a very long time to get their vote in, so if you figure out around a range of time when someone was there or in the polling sites or in the line, connect to someone who was an actual case, that’s when we would do notifications.”
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