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Show Transcript HERD IMMUNITY TO STOP COVID IT’S BEEN A GOAL SINCE THE START OF THE VACCINE ROLL-OUT, BUT ONE THAT SOME BELIEVE MAY GETTING OUT OF REACH. IS REACHING HERD IMMUNITY REALISTIC? I THINK IN THE NEAR TERM IT’S UNLIKELY. KENT: DR. MATT ANDERSON OF UW HEALTH SAYS WITH NEWERR, HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS VARIANTS OF COVID, HERD IMMUNITY WOULD REQUIRE 75-OR-80% OF THE POPULATION TO BE VACCINATED. CURRENTLY JUST OVER 43% OF WISCONSINITES HAVE HAD AT LEAST DOSE OF VACCINE AND THE RATE AT WHICH PEOPLE ARE GETTING SHOTS IS DROPPING. ALSO, A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION IS CHILDREN UNDER AGE 15 WHO AREN’T YET ELIGIBLE FOR THE VACCINE. I THINK IT IS UNLIKELY THAT WE WILL HIT HERD IMMUNITY BEFORE WE HAVE THOSE 0-15 S INCLUDED IN THE POPULATION. SOME PEOPLE, GETTING THEIR SHOTS ON MONDAY, HAD DOUBTS ABOUT REACHING HERD IMMUNITY. KENT: DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO REACH THOSE LEVELS WE NEED TO REACH FOR HERD IMM
Vaccine rollout contributed to State Fair return
Wisconsin State Fair Park Board leaders told 12 News a main factor to decide to host the fair in 2021 was vaccine distribution Share Updated: 10:30 PM CDT Apr 28, 2021
Vaccine rollout contributed to State Fair return
Wisconsin State Fair Park Board leaders told 12 News a main factor to decide to host the fair in 2021 was vaccine distribution Share Updated: 10:30 PM CDT Apr 28, 2021
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Show Transcript COURTNEY: THE BOARD MEMBERS SET A GOAL IN JANUARY TO HOST IN AUGUST, LEADERS SAID BEFORE THEY COULD OPEN THESE GATES, THE COMMUNITY WOULD NEED TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES FOR THE COVID-19 VACCINE. THE DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS. COURTNEY: ALL BOARD MEMBERS ON BOARD TO HOST THE WISCONSIN STATE FAIR IN AUGUST. THE VERY EARLY DISCUSSIONS WERE WHERE ARE WE IN THE PANDEMIC. AND WHAT GAVE US SOME DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE WAS THE DECISION IN DECEMBER THAT THERE WOULD BE AN ACTUAL VACCINE ROLLOUT. COURT
CBC Quebec journalists receive 21 nominations for RTDNA awards
CBC journalists in Montreal and Quebec City have been nominated for 21 RTDNA awards for their work in 2020.
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Posted: Apr 28, 2021 4:34 PM ET | Last Updated: April 28
CBC Quebec s ongoing coverage into the crisis in Quebec s long-term care homes has won a RDTNA award. Here, Lori Morrison and her husband Greg Giroux hold up a signs outside CHSLD Herron, a private Montreal-area seniors residence. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
CBC s English-language journalists in Quebec have received a total of 21 award nominations for their work in 2020 from RTDNA Canada, the association of electronic journalists.
Updated: 6:12 PM CDT Apr 26, 2021 The restaurant industry, devastated by the pandemic, is facing a new challenge.Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in WisconsinA shortage of workers is forcing some restaurants to scale back their hours.Others are offering bonuses to new employees.As restaurants reopen and capacity limits increase, it appears some customers are ready to return.But that may not be the case for restaurant workers. We can t open up extra days, we can t do lunch service because we don t have staff, DanDan owner Dan Jacobs said.He said restaurants everywhere are struggling to get back workers who were laid off from jobs that typically offer low pay and lower job security. We abandoned our staff as an industry, and they ve gone to do other things, Jacobs said. For servers making $2.13 an hour and depending on the generosity of others for their wages, I don t blame them at all. A new billboard puts the call out for needed restaurant workers.A WISN 12 search found
Updated: 5:20 PM CDT Apr 25, 2021 Matt Smith State health officials are closely watching Pfizer as it conducts clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine on infants as young as six-months-old. Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in Wisconsin If we want to get to herd immunity at 80 or 90 percent, we ve got to tackle that, said Dr. James Conway, UW Health’s director of immunization programs. We can t just depend on adults. Conway said the vaccine could be approved for kids aged 12 to 15 years old by mid-summer and eventually expand to kids 6 to 11 years old by the end of the year, and all kids 6 months or older by sometime in 2022. We really need to balance that safety piece and making sure we absolutely guarantee the vaccines are appropriate in that age group and there are no side effects, Conway said. State health officials said Thursday about 2.15 million Wisconsinites still need a first vaccination shot for the state to reach herd immunity at 80% of the s