ASHWAUBENON - For bars and restaurants in the Lambeau Field entertainment district, the hits keep coming.
Hanging on for six months of the coronavirus pandemic, they were starting to see business come back and had an outside hope some number of fans would be allowed to attend Green Bay Packers games at Lambeau Field by Nov. 1.
Instead, COVID-19 cases spiked well beyond what they were in spring, especially in northeastern Wisconsin. The state ranked third nationwide this week in the number of new cases per capita, with 548 cases per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University.