Credit Office of the Secretary of Defense
Now is the time to get your COVID-19 vaccine if you haven’t already done so, according to Governor Tony Evers.
In a COVID update with the Department of Health Services on Wednesday, the Governor urged people to get vaccinated.
“Summer is right around the corner and getting vaccinated will also us to get back to all the gatherings and events we miss,” said Evers.
More than two million Wisconsinites are fully vaccinated.
DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said we’re no longer seeing the urgency of getting a vaccine like we did earlier this year.
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Registered nurse Angela Yarbrough prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at SSM Health St. Mary s Hospital in Madison on Jan. 7, 2021. (
Credit: Angela Major / WPR)
One month after all adults in Wisconsin became eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, demand for shots has fallen off as millions of eligible Wisconsinites remain unvaccinated.
At the same time, the average number of new daily COVID-19 cases in the state continues to be stuck higher than public health officials and medical providers hope to reach. An ongoing plateau in average daily hospitalizations and deaths for Wisconsin is also persisting.
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MADISON, Wis.– Local vaccinators are on standby, preparing appointments for as soon as the federal and state governments give the green light to vaccinate kids 12 and up.
Pfizer applied for an Emergency Use Authorization to vaccinate kids ages 12 to 15, and the FDA is expected to authorize it early next week, according to media reports.
“We will be ready to distribute that and support our vaccinators in admitting vaccines,” Wisconsin DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said.
There’s about 300,000 kids that fall into the 12-15 age group in Wisconsin, according to Willems Van Dijk.
In the last year and a half, 6,850 Wisconsinites have died because of COVID-19. 248 of those deaths are people from the Northwoods. “For the nurses who