Wisconsin governor Tony Evers says Wisconsin is flattening the curve, but residents need to continue to do what they are doing to keep the coronavirus from spreading. Evers says the state is about where he thought it would be after he issued his Safer at Home order March 25. “We’re pleased that we’re finding a way to slow the growth and hopefully we’ll be reaching our top point in the near future and it will start a rapid decrease,” Evers said in an exclusive interview on AM 1170’s Between the Lines program. Evers wouldn’t say if he will lift or extend that order which is scheduled to expire April 24. He says that will depend on discussions with scientists and the business world and the situation at that time. When the state begins to slowly reopen the economy, Evers says there has to be a plan that involves testing through Public Health Departments so individual cases can be dealt with immediately, along with having contact tracers in place. “The Fond du Lac area knows about them. The tracers were able to say who was with who, and when, and get isolation for those folks. We need that on a really big basis going forward if we’re going to eventually say, okay, the economy is going to come back in this way.” Evers says the best guess for the virus peaking is still around May 1. “May first sounds like a good place to take a temperature on this but making sure that we stay safer at home,” Evers said. “If we take our foot off the accelerator too quickly you and I will be talking about this next year at this time and we can’t afford that.”
