Past email updates can be found HERE
Healthcare Heroes Act
Yesterday, I introduced the "Healthcare Heroes Act" along with my colleagues Rep. Mark Spreitzer, Rep. Daniel Riemer, and State Senator Jon Erpenbach, legislation in support of frontline healthcare workers in Wisconsin during the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill provides benefits for healthcare workers, including hazard pay, paid medical leave, state-funded COVID-19 testing and treatment for those uninsured, and insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and treatment. The bill also accepts the Medicaid expansion.
As policy-makers we owe it to the public, public health, and those frontline healthcare workers to provide what they need. We have heard directly from healthcare heroes about the circumstances confronting them — now it is up to us to act on their needs and with the urgency the situation demands. This proposal comes from these workers telling us that they deserve this. We as legislators hear this, and are enacting it.
Frontline healthcare workers will continue performing their vital roles, because it is not simply what they do, but who they are. The Wisconsin legislature needs to respond with policies to enable these heroes to serve in this unprecedented public health crisis. Wisconsin healthcare heroes are counting on us to act. Elected officials derive power from the consent of the governed, and the governed is telling us that this is what they need and this is what they deserve, so let’s get this done.
Read my full statement HERE.
Department of Health Services Updates
For daily updated information on COVID-19 in Wisconsin, visit the DHS website HERE.
Updates on the Badger Bounce Back plan gating criteria can be found HERE.
COVID-19 CASES
Statewide
28,659 confirmed cases (increase of 601*)
4.7% of total tests are positive (for 6/30)
3,446 hospitalizations (12% of cases- increase of 39)
22,587 recovered cases (79% of all cases)
539,539 negative test results (increase of 12,180)
784 devastating deaths (increase of 7)
14th District Counties
Milwaukee - 11,358 confirmed cases
Waukesha - 1,175 confirmed cases
*Changes over yesterday
Forward together,