Today we announced our Badger Bounce Back plan. This plan takes the steps Wisconsin needs to take to decrease #COVID19 cases and deaths and increase capacity in our healthcare system so that a phased reopening of businesses is possible and we can get people back to work. #Thread

In order to turn the dial on Safer at Home and supercharge the Badger Bounce Back, we must:
Access more testing and labs
Expand contact tracing
Aggressively track the spread
Access more #PPE and supplies
Increase healthcare system capacity

As part of that plan the state will be working to increase access to more testing and expand lab capacity. Under the Badger Bounce Back plan, the goal is that everyone who needs a test gets a test.

Next, the state will be expanding contact tracing and more aggressively tracking the spread with the goal that every Wisconsinite who tests positive being interviewed within 24 hrs of receiving their test results and their contacts being interviewed within 48 hrs of test results.

Additionally, the state will continue to pursue every avenue to grow Wisconsin’s supply of personal protective equipment #PPE for healthcare and public safety entities to conduct COVID-19 testing, patient care, and public safety work.

Finally, the plan works to bolster healthcare system capacity where patients can be treated without crisis care and there are more robust testing programs in place for at-risk healthcare workers.

In tandem, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is laying the groundwork to get Wisconsin businesses back on their feet and workers back to work as soon as it is safe to do so.

Turning the dial through the Badger Bounce Back will get our state moving again and get people back to work. More importantly it will allow us to stay open once we re-open.

Wisconsinites have had to make enormous sacrifices to slow the spread of COVID-19, but we are resilient and we will bounce back. #BadgerBounceBack

More on our Badger Bounce Back plan is available here: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/28768f3