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Kynala Phillips, left, and Jimmy Gutierrez, right, distribute bags with COVID-19 vaccination information, face masks, hand sanitizer and a community newsletter to Milwaukee residents in vaccine eligible ZIP codes on March 27, 2021, in Milwaukee. Some of Wisconsinâs most vulnerable populations struggle to access COVID-19 vaccines, and volunteers and community groups are trying to erase barriers.
By: Bram Sable-Smith
and last updated 2021-04-05 10:58:01-04
Barbara felt ecstatic in January when a Wisconsin Department of Health Services letter confirmed that she and her parents were eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations.
The 28-year-old education student lives with her parents in Milwaukee. All three share caretaking duties for Barbaraâs young child, who is on the autism spectrum. That unpaid work qualifies them as frontline health care personnel in Wisconsinâs vaccine rollout.
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How Wisconsin turned around its lagging vaccination program and buoyed a Biden health pick Isaac Stanley-Becker, Dan Diamond © Scott Bauer/AP Andrea Palm, formerly secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, speaks to reporters in 2019. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
When President Biden announced in January that he would make Wisconsin’s top health official his No. 2 at the Department of Health and Human Services, the state seemed like a poor model for the nation’s most crucial public health priority: fighting the pandemic.
Wisconsin had just come through a surge more intense than New York City’s, and it ranked near the bottom of states in bringing a first dose of vaccine to its residents. Only about a third of doses sent to the state had been administered. The grim numbers galvanized Republicans in Wisconsin to take aim at a familiar target, state health secretary-designate Andrea Palm, whom they had refused to confirm since 20