WUWM The Southside Health Center, located at 1639 South 23rd Street, will continue to be a community vaccination site as the Wisconsin Center will stop administering vaccines on May 28.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Thursday continued to urge people to be vaccinated for COVID-19 even as FEMA announced last week it will close its mass vaccination site downtown on May 28 because demand is waning. Barrett said now is not the time to give up.
“I don’t want to take my foot off the accelerator when it comes to vaccinations. I am very much of the mindset, based on public health, that the more people who have the vaccinations, the healthier our community will be and the faster we will be able to return to life as normal,” he said.
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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) The walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site located at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee will close on May 28, according to a spokesperson for the Milwaukee Health Department.
The site has the capacity to vaccinate 4,000 people a day, but the health department has said they have been vaccinating about 2,000 per day.
The Biden administration selected the Wisconsin Center to serve as a federal pilot community vaccination clinic. It s been managed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since April 6.
FEMA funding is set to end, the Milwaukee Health Department spokesperson said. Milwaukee will run Northwest and Southside Health Centers for more vaccination options.
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