Wisconsin Watch

Gov. Tony Evers issued an order Friday, March 27, relaxing a range of rules governing Wisconsin’s health care workforce — an effort to maximize the number of doctors, nurses and physician assistants available to help during the all-hands-on-deck coronavirus pandemic.

As Americans struggle to cope with the spread of COVID-19, they will also need to brace themselves for “disaster fraud” — those cons that rely on post-catastrophe chaos to separate people from their money.

Wisconsin’s physician assistants are calling on Gov. Tony Evers to change regulations, allowing them to help during an all-hands-on-deck public health crisis.

The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare many of the ways in which poor internet service can make rural residents less productive and more isolated than their urban counterparts.

As COVID-19 rapidly spreads across Wisconsin and worldwide, Madison nurses say they are standing in the “calm before the storm,” expecting a surge of infected patients to overwhelm hospital systems that sometimes struggle to meet typical demands.

Unable to work inside hospitals, University of Wisconsin nursing students are helping staff in another way: by watching their children.