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WHA Moves to Five-Day Schedule for COVID Dashboard Updates

Due to changes in data availability, effective June 5, 2021, the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s COVID-19 situational awareness dashboard will only be updated Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday data will be included in the Monday dashboard update. The data for the COVID-19 situational awareness dashboard comes from two sources—the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and EMResource, which is a tool that hospitals use to alert and communicate with each other and with their emergency response partners, not only in an emergency like COVID-19, but also on a day-to-day basis. DHS recently changed its dashboard update schedule to weekdays, and WHA will correspondingly adopt this schedule.