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Amid optimism and relief, officials concerned about unvaccinated populations.

Palm had served as a key member of President Barack Obama‘s administration, as senior counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2014 until 2017, overseeing the operational agenda for the public health and human services agencies with more than 60,000 employees. She was also a senior adviser to the White House Domestic Policy Council during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before this, she had worked five years as a health policy adviser to...

Andrea Palm, tapped as No. 2 at HHS, has been vilified by Wisconsin Republicans. But her state’s approach to covid-19 vaccinations is working.

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...

Can You Choose Which Covid-19 Vaccine You Get?     The bottom line For now, you’re unlikely to have a choice. Medical experts say it’s important to take whichever vaccine is offered to you, and both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are currently authorized in the U.S. have been shown to be highly effective at preventing disease. As vaccine supply increases and more options become available in the coming months and years, there may be more scope for doctors to re...

Coronavirus variant spreading in Minnesota Officials fear a second wave of more contagious virus strain could emerge.  By Christopher Snowbeck Text size Copy shortlink: Worrisome signs are surfacing that a more contagious version of the pandemic virus is spreading in Minnesota, even as the state continues to see fewer COVID-19 deaths and cases. The Minnesota Department of Health announced last week that the number of B.1.1.7 variant cases co...

“The (homeless) shelters were initially not going to be included in the phase 1b rollout … but then they included us,” said Teresa Reinders, the director of Racine Countys Continuum

UW-Madison COVID-19 stories and experts: Thursday Mourning, spread data, new vaccines For news media More information MADISON – The following UW–Madison stories and experts are available on current topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. See more stories here.   “Thursday Mourning” remembrance ritual honors COVID-19 victims “I wanted to feel a connection to those who had died, to acknowledge their lives.” That’s Omar Poler, describing the inten...

The Wisconsin advisory panel that decides whos next in line for the vaccine will pause to wait for Bidens strategy Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MADISON - The state advisory panel recommending when Wisconsin residents should get the COVID-19 vaccine is pausing work while the Evers administration gathers more information on how President Joe Bidens vaccine strategy will affect the state. The hiatus, which could last weeks, also comes while the distribution of vaccine ...

Johnson & Johnsons vaccine is less effective at preventing COVID-19 than other approved vaccines are, but experts say it could still be an important tool in curbing the pandemic.