Here & Now

Gov. Evers addresses the Spike in COVID Cases

Frederica Freyberg:

Governor Tony Evers took to the prime time airwaves this week to make an urgent plea and an executive order to advise people to stay home.

Tony Evers:

Wisconsin has become a national hot spot. We once led our region in containing this virus, but now surges in our state rival what we saw in New York City this last spring. Our case numbers continue to climb. Since last Friday we’ve added more than 25,000 new cases. It took us seven and a half months to get to 100,000 cases, but it only took 36 days to add another 100,000. The way things are going, it will take us only 20 days to reach another 100,000. We’ve now surpassed in deaths the number of lives we projected we would have saved months ago if we would have been able to keep safer-at-home and reopen safely. 2,395 Wisconsinites, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends and co-workers have lost their lives and I offer my deepest sympathy and condolences to those who are mourning the loss of their loved ones. Unfortunately, they will not be the last.

Frederica Freyberg:

Since the governor’s address earlier in the week those numbers have only grown.