LINCOLN - Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said Monday that policymakers, rather than health experts, should decide whether schools should reopen to students.

Policymakers should take advice from different sources, including health experts, but have to base their decisions on the “big picture.”

At a press conference Monday, Ricketts was asked about the recommendation of health officials at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health that schools should consider staying closed when the number of COVID-19 cases in the community exceeds 50 per million population per day.

“Policymakers need to make these decisions,” Ricketts said, “because when doctors say that, they’re only looking at a very, very narrow part” of the situation.

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