Possible, practice good hygiene and social distancing and wear a face mask in public if youre able to. Wisconsin was in a pretty good place in our battle against covid19. We had reached all of our gating criteria. On monday we opened up 14,000 Small Businesses across the state. Putting potentially 90,000 folks back to work in that industry. Despite that good work by wisconsinites across our state who banded together, stayed home and stayed safe, republican legislators have convinced four of our Supreme Court justices to throw our state into chaos. We awe is already last night when the Tavern League of wisconsin urged its members to open back up and people flooded to bars across the state. Instead of a comprehensive statewide approach to keep people safe were seeing municipalities around the state chart their own course. That means you might have to follow a different set of rules than your neighbors across the street. And if you own businesses in multiple locations or have employees who live in a Different Community than the one they work in, things are going to get very confusing, very fast. Even with all of these chaos, we cannot let the courts ruling undo all the work we have done and all the sacrifices wisconsinites have made during the past few months. We need everybody to continue doing their part to keep our families, our neighbors and our communities safe by continuing the safer at home, wear a mask in public if you can, practice social distancing and limit travel, because folks, the Supreme Court may have changed the rules for how we operate, but it sure the heck didnt change how viruses operate. This virus has killed more than 400 of our family members, friends, and neighbors and thousands more across our state are sick. Because of the courts decision, many more people could get sick and overwhelm our hospitals, but not if we stay the course and stay home. If you do not feel safe leaving the house, you should stay home. If you feel safe enough to go out to a store or a restaurant, but experience crowds or unsafe conditions that make you feel uncomfortable, you should go home. Just because republicans have said it can be a freeforall, that doesnt mean we have to though out good judgment, throw that good judgment out the window. I have already heard from a number of individuals and businesses, who said they plan on continuing staying at home. Id like to read one message i received from a constituent lacrosse who says this, as for me and my household, we will continue to abide by the guidelines your office set, even if they are no longer required by executive order. While i miss going to church, i can still exercise my freedom of religion by practicing it faithfully at home. While i miss sitting down in a restaurant, i still have the freedom to enjoy my favorite restaurant food from carry out options and while i love to shop at secondhand stores, i can do so with Online Options or five people in the stores. You didnt take away any of my freedoms and you helped protect them because of the good work and freedoms, if youre not alive and healthy to enjoy them, they mean nothing. I heard from dozens of folks, librarians, fed exdrivers, Grocery Store workers, cancer survivors like myself, Business Owners people from all over the state who support our efforts to stay safer at home and are hoping that you will continue to stay at home, also. Their lives depend on it. Now, it is more important than ever to make sure we are focused on keeping everybody safe, especially that we consider those who are most exposed and vulnerable when we take decisions. We remain concerned and are working hard to keep people safe in our care, such as our Health Care Facilities and correctional facilities. Even though we understand how difficult it is right now for those individuals, and their families, at this time we do not have any diagnosed cases of covid19 at our wisconsin veterans homes, which we attribute to the good practices we had in place and protocols we added very early on. While safer at home order is no longer in effect, in the interest of the health and welfare of our members and staffs our wisconsin veterans homes will continue to follow the guidance for the centers for Disease Control for our longterm care facilities and Nursing Homes by limiting visitation. I know that other longterm care providers are making the same kind of considerations. This pandemic hasnt gone away and the threat to frail older adults remains real and potentially dangerous. The department of Health Services and the Provider Community are working hard to develop options and strategies to allow visitations to safely occur under certain circumstances and conditions. We all want visitations to occur and open up, but we dont want to thoughtlessly threaten the lives of older adults. I know that folks are eager to visit their loved ones and i understand that. I appreciate your patience and understanding as we all try and make sense of the situation and find solutions that will keep your loved ones safe. We also need to be diligent in our effort to keep our workers safe. Wedc has a comprehensive set of guidelines that we developed in consultation with dhs and i strongly urge every business to implement these best practices to ensure the safety of every workplace in other community. Both customers and workers need to be confident in their safety so we need everyone to be diligent in following best Safety Practices so that we can continue to move our state forward while keeping our neighbors, families, and communities safe and healthy. Regardless of the political overtones of the Supreme Court decision, we still know what we need to do. As i said before, the virus hasnt changed and neither has the science. We will continue with our testing and Contact Tracing efforts around the state and well continue to ensure our critical workers have the equivalent they need to do their jobs safely. I urge anyone who needs a test to go get tested at one of our Community Testing sites and help protect your community and family from this virus. Lets stay the course, wisconsin. I know were up to this challenge. And now, before secretary d designee andrea palm gives her updates id like you to hear from one of the workers on the front line, Laura Anderson. Laura . My name is Laura Anderson and im a family and Womens Health practitioners in beloit. Were one of 18 Healthcare Services in wisconsin providing health care to services who need them the most. Our doors are open for whatever. Families, children, farm workers, the homeless and those who are uninsured, on medicaid, or who have private insurance. We are usually located in the heart of a medically underserved and vulnerable community. Prior to and during the covid crisis, we have offered comprehensive medical, dental and behavioral Health Services. We provide Innovative Care that reaches beyond the walls of Traditional Medicine and we address the social determination of health, things that i cannot possibly prescribe for like food, shelter, and these are very real issues. Due to efforts of experience of passionate staff, they have resources, including social workers, interpreters, free Diabetic Health education, assistance programs and hiv clinic and Case Management through a partnership with uw health. Historically, community Health Services has adapted quickly during the health crisis, the hiv pandemic, sars, h1n1 and today is no different. Our patient needs have been always first and foremost, they are the reason we are here. We are one of the first to offer telephone and virtual visits for all three of our service lines, medical, dental, and behavioral health. We provide access to quality care to people who do not require emergency or intensive care. We function as shock absorbers to overwhelmed hospitals. Weve been on the forefront of Testing Services providing to those most in need. Including the families affected by the covid19 virus. According to the National Association of Community Health centers, as of may 1st, Community HealthService Centers across the nation have provided over 356,000 tests. Among those tested, 59,000 were of racial and or ethnic minorities, and in that group, 65 have tested positive. We have been effective because of our connection with patients and the relationship with providers. They feel trust coming to a place they know is safe. We developed and provide culturally appropriate health information. We offer consultation and put fears to rest. As things start to open up, people are worried and asking what they should do. Were here to listen to them and offer sound advice about staying safe. This is what i want you to know most of all, we are all in this together. Our Health Centers are uniquely positioned to address the Health Disparities that have become glaringly evident during this pandemic. These disparities are overwhelmingly affecting People Living in poverty and lack adequate housing or food and including many in our africanamerican, latino, and asian communities. We provide services that wouldnt be able people wouldnt be able to access without us. Our staff and our patients are a part of your community and you are a part of ours. Thank you. And im turning this back to the department of Health Services secretary andrea palm. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I am andrea palm, im the secretary designee at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, thanks for joining us again today. I share governor evers disappointment in the Supreme Court ruling as this decision will hamper our ability to protect the health and safety of wisconsinites and it risks increasing our cases and our deaths. In the face of this reality, i urge you to stick with us, wisconsin and continue to stay safer at home. Your commitment to flattening the curve is protecting our Health Care Workers and vulnerable neighbors and the capacity of our Health Care System more broadly. Theres more work to do. Yesterdays ruling changes nothing about the science of this virus or the work we need to continue to do together to safely reopen wisconsin. And that work, and that is work that we have been doing together since we began our state wide response in early march. You can see our progress in the green gating criteria on our dashboard. And as weve talked about, while youve been staying at home weve been working up our Contact Tracing infrastructure to be able to detect positive cases quickly and help stop the disease from spreading further. Bye covid19 remains highly infectious and this is why our badger bounce back plan offers a gradual reopening through three phases, including interaction between and among wisconsinites in a way that will help us prevent the spreads of the disease, minimize the risk of a surge that would overwhelm our Health Care System. Physical distancing in in phased approach, along the aggressive testing and Contact Tracing will help protect the health and safety of wisconsinites, until there is an effective vaccine. What we have done so far together is working. Dhs and our partners in the statewide response will continue to do the work helping to protect the safety against the virus and safely reopen wisconsin. I am asking all wisconsinites to continue to do it with us. Here is where things stand today. Weve got 52 active labs running covid19 tests in wisconsin with a daily lab capacity 13,372 tests, 1,22, 598 negative tests, an increase of tests over yesterday. There are now 11,275 confirmed cases of covid19 here in wisconsin which is an increase of 373 over yesterday. Our total deaths have now reached 434. We currently have a total of 299 facilitywide Public Health investigations and now ill take your questions. Thank you. Reminder to maintain Audio Quality to keep your phones on mute until its time to ask a question. And the need to wrap up by 3shg 3 00, please only one question per reporter. Scott bower from associated press. Scott. Hi, thank you again for taking this call. Governor, i wanted to get your reaction to speaker saying it might be okay not to have a statewide plan and leave it up to local governments to decide what the policy should be and im wondering what the doctor thinks about that with the ramifications. That was part of our conversation today. I felt both leaders felt very comfortable with the idea that and they were unconcerned about what i believe will be massive confusion that will exist without a statewide approach. Apparently they believe that different rules are okay. So i i cant imagine another state thats in this predicament, where essentially mile by mile there may be different rules across all of the state of wisconsin. So disappointed in that, surprised in that, that was part of an mo right from the beginning, but i do see some contradiction here and that is, i remember receiving a letter shortly after the may it was dated may 1st, i dont know when i received it, but its from the speaker vos and some of his colleagues and they made it clear to me that they were interested in a gradual and safe reowning of the state. Apparently between that at that time and when the Supreme Court made their decision, they decided that that wasnt what they wanted to do. I think its a mistake, but the court decided and theyre the court of the land. At least four Court Members decided. Thank you, scott. Now to mark leland from wluktv in green bay. Mark. Yeah, thank you very much. Republicans let me ask this. How many counties have enacted their own continuance of your stayathome order . Are you reaching out to those that havent yet and are those legal . A lot of people are questioning if theyre legal if the state order was not. I can answer that for the governor. I think last i checked, there were at least five or six counties that had enacted their own order, that suspect based on the amount of interest that weve heard from local Public Health officers that theres going to be more counties and more municipalities that will be doing so. In terms of the legality, the Public Health officers have very Broad Authority under state laws. While legislative republicans and their allies on the Supreme Court overturned the states effort to do so on highly technical rule making grounds. Those same requirements to rule making doesnt apply to Health Officers so there isnt is connect between the states Supreme Court decision and what the Health Officers are doing. Well see a patch work across the state and thats authorized unt state law. Thanks, go ahead. This is brian. And following up on local Public Health. To that first question id say its not necessarily a weakness or a bad thing for control of Public Health to be for those decisions to be set at the local level. In fact, we rely on local Public Health as the leading edge of our statewide response and all things to communicable diseases. In principle thats a good solution, the limitation is that the resources required to contain this at the local level so quickly outstripped our abilities to do things locally that needed to be done. Where was as the theyre this unfolded so quickly we needed a statewide response and as were trying to build our next generation Public Health system for the neck ye next yea, we need to coordinate the at the state level and builds up low Public Health that wasnt there before. The resources that the Public Health needs to respond to this epidemic is going to be here for the next year or two. For us to have a statewide response trying to mitigate on a statewide level was critical in our opinion, number one make sure theres uniformity in our response and number two, time to build the resources locally that we need to contain local epidemics and prevent them from becoming large generallylized epidemi epidemi epidemics. They need to do that in a scale that hasnt been done in our lifetimes. And thats why the state is such an important resource and support. Thank you, mark. Now to mays dowling from aowtv in wausau. Mason . Hi, thank you for taking this call. Our question was this, weve had several Business Owners in the wausau area make a Facebook Post or email, something along those lines, saying theyre trying to figure out how best to implement their businesses, but concerned because their employees are currently making more money off of unemployment than they would have been while working. Is the