Communities and Wisconsin National Guard troops forge bonds amidst COVID-19 testing
SOLON SPRINGS and ASHLAND, Wis. — On two sunny spring days in northern Wisconsin, Citizen Soldiers and Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard, working with public health and emergency management officials from Ashland County, stood-up two mobile COVID-19 specimen collections sites May 6 at Solon Springs, and May 7 in Ashland. Each site collected samples for one day. The Wisconsin National Guard has specimen collection teams supporting communities throughout Wisconsin, and some of those teams, like Task Force Charlie, Team 10, provide COVID-19 specimen collecting and testing to rural communities, outside of the state’s major metropolitan areas. This capability fills