Brett Dahlberg
Brett is the health reporter and a producer at WXXI News. He has a master’s degree from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and before landing at WXXI, he was an intern at WNYC and with Ian Urbina of the New York Times. He also produced freelance reporting work focused on health and science in New York City. Brett grew up in Bremerton, Washington, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
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Struggling to keep up with a COVID-19 surge in Michigan, overwhelmed local health departments turned to schools, and recruited principals and teachers as supplemental contact tracers. -
The coronavirus is spreading so fast that cases are outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Some have asked people who test positive to do their own contact tracing.
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Local health departments that can't keep up with the rapid spread of the coronavirus are having to adapt. Some Michigan counties are asking people who test positive to do their own contact tracing.
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As cities weather the first blasts of excessive summer heat, officials weigh the benefits of opening cooling centers and spray parks against the risks of letting people gather in public spaces. -
The Monroe County health department announced that a patient at Rochester General Hospital has died from COVID-19. The is the first known local death... -
Monroe County public health commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza announced eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday evening, bringing the local total to... -
The Rochester man who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week rode a Greyhound bus from New York City to Rochester on Tuesday. Monroe County... -
A Monroe County resident has tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Public health commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza and Monroe County... -
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in New York, there are still only two places in the state that can test for the coronavirus that causes… -
New York state has confirmed its first case of novel coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday night. The case is in a woman in her mid-30s who...
