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Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 43. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:42 for 9 hours 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 32 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1969, the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history (Jets 16, Colts 7).
Some Wisconsin counties have begun to stock harm-reduction vending machines with flu tests:
In the midst of an intense flu season, some Wisconsin counties are stocking “public health vending machines” with free flu tests.
Kenosha County Public Health began stocking vending machines with COVID-19 and flu tests this month.
Harm reduction vending machines have been popping up across Wisconsin in recent years. They are typically filled with Narcan — a lifesaving drug that reverses opioid overdoses — and fentanyl test strips. Some counties are broadening its public health impact by adding flu testing kits and winter supplies.
[…]Julie Dabrowski is the communication support coordinator for Crawford County Health and Human Services. She said the program gives residents affordable and accessible health care.
“We do have vending machines on all corners of our county,” Dabrowski said. “So even in some of the most rural areas, they can have access to these products that they wouldn’t be able to unless they went into the city.”
Flu tests in vending machines also allow residents to figure out what treatment to seek while protecting the health of others.
“We thought that would be a great idea, since people need to know whether or not they have COVID, flu A or flu B,” Dabrowski said.
See Steph Conquest-Ware, Some Wisconsin counties are filling ‘harm reduction vending machines’ with flu tests (‘It comes at a time when flu cases are surging nationwide’), Wisconsin Public Radio, January 12, 2026.
Adding flu kits is a good decision: (1) the machines have the capacity to stock different items at the same time, (2) they have become known in their communities, and (3) adjusting the variety of kits to account for shifting community health risks is a rational approach.
Supplies within the machines should be adjusted as needed.
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Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…