Covid dashboard scaled down

Changes to a direct health measure suspending certain elective surgeries was announced Oct. 21, by Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Class D and Class E elective surgeries, for all acute care, critical care and children’s hospitals, in Nebraska were resumed, as of Oct. 22.

Ricketts also announced changes to the state’s COVID-19 reporting dashboard. As of Oct. 22, county-level counts of COVID-19 cases and demographics have been removed. The dashboard, available at dhhs.ne.gov, will be updated weekly, on Wednesdays, since COVID-19 hospitalizations are below 10% capacity.

Ricketts reinstated the dashboard Sept. 20, when he inked an executive order waiving a state law that he claims would have prohibited release of the data.

That executive order will expire Oct. 31.