Organizations line up to oppose Republican effort to end Evers’ mask order
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Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature want to cancel the governor’s mask order. The state Medical Society wants it continued.
Dr. Bud Chumbley is CEO of the Wisconsin Medical Society. “The science is definitive that they reduce the spread of COVID-19, and thus by reducing the spread, reduces the morbidity and mortality.”
The state Senate will consider a Republican authored joint resolution today. If passed there and in the Assembly, it would make one of the few public health tools available to slow the pandemic, less effective.