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Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Defends Business Reopening Plan

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Defends Business Reopening Plan

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Photo: WNAX


Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts has been criticized for allowing some parts of the state’s economy to reopen while coronavirus infection numbers continue to rise.
Ricketts says it is a measured response to the rate of infection…

Ricketts says the health care system did not get overloaded…

Ricketts says the economy can slowly open as they watch the rate of infection and hospitalizations…

One out of six infections were tied to people that work in meatpacking plants.

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