OMAHA- It’s not that Dr. Angela Hewlett doesn’t want Nebraskans to have fun or gather with family and friends.

The infectious diseases physician with Nebraska Medicine just wants residents to take a lesson from Texas and do it safely so Nebraska can avoid rolling back its reopening. Texas and more than a half-dozen others have had to do just that in the face of rising coronavirus case counts.

“Shouldn’t we heed warnings from Texas, where the governor had to walk back on opening due to a surge of COVID-19?” Hewlett wrote recently on Twitter. “The virus will be where people congregate, and bars with no restrictions will most certainly result in outbreaks. We need to do better.” “Even though we’re opening things up,” she said in an interview, “we need to remember that this could really backfire on us and we could end up having to backtrack on opening like they’re doing in Texas and Arizona and other southern states.”

Hewlett, the medical director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, has treated patients with Ebola and people with COVID-19. She said she doesn’t want Nebraskans to become complacent and have COVID-19 take off here as it has elsewhere in the United States.

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