OMAHA- Nebraska may have reached its peak for coronavirus cases, an infectious disease specialist said Thursday, but infections in long-term care facilities remain a problem. That’s according to Dr. M. Salman Ashraf, medical director of the Nebraska Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

“It appears to be at the peak, a plateau,” Ashraf said, during a televised town hall with Gov. Pete Ricketts. “We might even be on the way to a decline. We have to wait a few more days. There is hope, we should be looking forward to that.”

But his comments were tempered by Ricketts, who quickly followed with a call to keep expectations in check.“Let’s be cautious,” Ricketts said. Both reiterated that the course of the virus is somewhat dependent on Nebraskans.

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