COVID-19 Media Conference for 11/12/2020

Who:

• Governor Tony Evers
• Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk, Wisconsin Department of Health Services 
• Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Chief Medical Officer, DHS Bureau of Communicable Diseases
• Ryan Nilsestuen, Chief Legal Counsel, Office of the Governor

When: Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.        

In today's media briefing the Department of Health Services announced a new category of COVID activity in the state - Critically High. This was necessary since the activity level is now so high in the state that all counties had reached the highest level. All but 7 of the counties in the state are currently in the Critically High level, where there are currently more than 1000 cases per 100,000 residents in the county.