Given the continued uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, we have decided to close the Saint John’s On The Lake concert the afternoon of July 13 to registration by the general public. Although COVID is in more of an “endemic” phase now, the virus is still spreading at a high rate throughout Milwaukee County. 13% of tests reported are positive. (5% has been considered a meaningful threshold.) Symptoms are increasingly unlikely to predict whether someone, even vaccinated, is carrying the virus.

A senior community such as Saint John’s needs to be able to carefully monitor COVID incidents because of the high vulnerability of some residents, even though vaccines and other precautions have helped to manage that threat.