Frederica Freyberg:

A stratospheric rise in the number of COVID-19 cases across the state, with all counties in the critically high category.

Karen Timberlake:

We have heard health care providers in Wisconsin and around the country sounding this alarm and we need to hear them.

Frederica Freyberg:

To help support the state’s strained health care workforce, the governor deployed the National Guard, greeting members returning home from overseas late this week and asking if they’d like to train up as nurses.

Tony Evers:

And as we continue to see COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge, we are pursuing every available option to bring needed staffing support to Wisconsin’s health system.

Frederica Freyberg:

Meanwhile, testing and N95 masks take on critical importance as the Omicron surge shatters records. I’m Frederica Freyberg. Tonight on “Here & Now,” the latest on COVID-19, with the state’s health secretary. Insight into Ron Johnson’s reelection bid with Marquette pollster Charles Franklin. And a sit-down with one of the Democrats running in the 3rd Congressional District. It’s “Here & Now” for January 14.