![]() Ricketts comments came at a news conference at which state college and private university officials discussed plans for reopening their schools for in-person instruction. An attempt to get reaction from the CDC to the governor’s comments was not immediately successful. But the 7-day average positivity rate has not surpassed 10% since the beginning of June. Nebraska’s positivity rate reached 28% during the state’s peak in late April and early May. ![]() And I don’t believe his advisers are serving him – the President – well if they’re giving him bad data about what’s going on here,” he said. So the White House putting us on that list in my opinion was a mistake. ![]() “If you look at our data, we have never crossed that 10 percent positivity threshold. Monday, Ricketts said that wasn’t the case. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease Control told Omaha television station KETV that Nebraska had entered the red zone. That’s consistent the number calculated by NET News. Ricketts said by his calculation, the positivity rate for Nebraska last week was about 7.9 percent. But the White House was not sorting that data out of their data,” Ricketts said. So we don’t count that multiple tests positive on one person as far as the numbers we report. So there may be multiple rounds of testing where you still test positive before you get that test negative and go back. You have to test negative to get back into the nursing home. One of the things, for example is, say you go to a hospital from a nursing home. “We dug into the data, and what we found out is that the White House was using bad data. Pete Ricketts said that was based on bad data, and offered an explanation. Nebraska supposedly met that first standard. That’s a designation for states where more than 10 percent of diagnostic tests come back positive, or that have more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population. Deborah Birx, a member of the Whtie House Coronavirus task force, told local officials Nebraska had moved into the “red zone” of states with high coronavirus rates. Last week, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington DC, reported Dr. And the governor supported a property tax compromise advancing in the Legislature, despite it not having spending controls. Pete Ricketts pushed back Monday against the White House and the Centers for Disease Control saying last week that Nebraska had entered the “red zone” for having a high positivity rate for COVID-19 cases. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.Gov. In Washington County, the clinic at First Lutheran Church in Blair is open to walk-ins from 9 a.m.on the first and third Mondays of the month. In Saunders County, the Three Rivers clinic in Lake Wanahoo is open to walk-ins from 9 a.m.In Dodge County, the Three Rivers Fremont location is open for walk-ins from 7:30 a.m. ![]() to noon on Saturdays at the new Ambulatory Care Center. VETERANS: Any eligible veterans can go to the Omaha VA Medical Center’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics’ walk-in hours from 9 a.m. TOTAL WELLNESS: DCHD has been working with Total Wellness, located at 9320 H Court, to establish a vaccination clinic from 10 a.m. ![]() Appointments will be made through the county’s vaccination registry. at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus, located at 5300 N. MCC FORT OMAHA: Vaccinations also will be distributed Mondays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. ![]()
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