Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds stopped short of issuing a stay-at-home order in her news conference Monday morning.

Iowa and Nebraska remain two of the few states that have not issued one. The list of Midwest states with such an order includes neighboring Kansas, Minnesota and Missouri. Yet, a key difference those states have that Nebraska and Iowa do not: specific instructions that narrow down who is an essential worker that can leave to go to their job and who should stay home.

On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor, said that, despite no stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders in both Iowa or Nebraska, the two states are on the same page with him.

"I had good conversations with (Gov. Ricketts) and (Gov. Reynolds) and it's interesting that functionally, even though they have not given a strict stay-at-home, what they are doing is really functionally equivalent to that," Fauci said

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