State Senators Ask Governor To Re-Start Statewide Covid Dashboard

Lincoln, NE (August 11, 2021) 11 Members of the Nebraska Legislature  sent a letter to Governor Pete Ricketts today, requesting he reactivate the statewide COVID-19 daily dashboard.  The group includes  State Senators Machaela Cavanaugh, Jen Day, Megan Hunt, John McColister, Terrell McKinney, Carol Blood, Matt Hansen, John Cavanaugh, Patty Pansing Brooks, Tony Vargas, and Adam Morfeld.

The request comes as schools are opening for the fall school year and businesses are making operational decisions. “Since the State shutdown the COVID-19 Dashboard on June 30, 2021, Nebraska has seen a rise in infections and hospitalizations. We respectfully ask that the Department of Health and Human Services reinstate the COVID-19 dashboard at once and that all 93 counties across Nebraska be required to report data to the state.” 

The Senators further clarified why reinstating a daily dashboard is crucial at this time, “The current weekly report is lacking crucial detailed information, including county by county infection rates, COVID-19 related deaths, daily available hospital beds, respirators and overall staffed beds.” The Dashboard gives us real-time representation of data we need to make decisions about the pandemic and without it we do not have the information we need to act.