Who:

• Governor Tony Evers
• Secretary-designee Andrea Palm, Wisconsin Department of Health Services 
• Stephanie Smiley, Interim DPH Administrator and State Health Officer 
• Ryan Nilsestuen, Chief Legal Counsel, Office of the Governor

When: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.                 

This is today's media briefing by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Who:

Wisconsin is seeing significant COVID-19 activity, and data show that this is at least partly due to activities like gatherings. Data obtained from contact tracing calls indicate that the percent of people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 who reported attending a gathering, party, or other meet up with people outside their home in the past two weeks grew from 7% of cases in May to 21% of cases in June and 20% of cases in July.

Today's media briefing will take place at 1:30 PM. 

Who: 

There will be a media briefing again today with the state DHS office. Today's briefing starts at 1:30 PM and will include:

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Today's media briefing will include Governor Evers, DHS Secretary-designee Andrea Palm, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Secretary Mary Kolar, Chief Medical officer of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases Dr. Ryan Westergaard, and Chief Legal Counsel Ryan Nilsestuen. It will be held to update the status of Wisconsin's COVID-19 response.  The meeting will start at 1:30 PM.

This is today's media conference call with DHS and (usually) the governor. It starts at 1:30 PM. 

In today's briefing the Governor discusses the suspension of in-person voting that was announced shortly before the conference.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Wisconsin reached 381 in today's report from the Department of Health Services. The number of reported deaths remains at 4. 6611 tests have been conducted in the state as of today.