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Watch Live: DHS gives COVID-19 Q&A, announces use of VaccineFinder April 22, 2021 1:16 PM Jourdan Vian MADISON, Wis. (WKBT) — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services will begin using the Centers for Disease Control’s VaccineFinder tool to help people find COVID-19 vaccine in their area. Next month, the tool, found at https://vaccinefinder.org/, will replace the DHS map of COVID-19 vaccine providers that launched in February. “DHS is constantly evaluating diffe...

Counties across Wisconsin are sustaining a high level of COVID activity, after activity was trending downward earlier in the spring. 

RACINE — Friday night, the City of Racine’s public health administrator proposed a series of updates to the city’s mask requirement. The proposals in some ways call for rules to be stricter, but also call for others to be loosened. They are to be debated and possibly approved into ordinance during a City Council meeting Monday evening. Bowersox Dottie-Kay Bowersox, the public health administrator, requested the following: Bandanas, scarves, and gaiters are removed from the defini...

Wisconsin continues pause on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine WBAY news staff © Provided by Green Bay-Appleton WBAY-TV The local effect of the pause in Johnson and Johnson vaccine administration MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - State officials have extended a pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Wisconsin as an investigation continues into people who experienced blood clots after getting the shot. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the pause will continue...

April 15: Weekly Driftless Region COVID-19 update DRIFTLESS - Over the past week COVID-19, diagnoses statewide increased from 580,184 on Monday, Apr. 5 to 585,710 on Monday, Apr. 12. That is a statewide increase of 5,526 cases. The number of deaths increased from 6,640 to 6,680, an additional 40 deaths, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). According to the Monday, April 12 issue of Up North News, the state Department of Health Services (DHS) reported 1...

Wisconsin DHS orders full stop on J&J vaccines Unmute Check out all of our COVID-19 vaccine coverage here. According to a news release from the DHS, six cases of a blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis have been detected in the U.S., meriting a full stop on J&J vaccine administration. “We are pausing administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of an abundance of caution. At this time, these adverse events appear to be extremely rare,” DHS Se...

WUWM Boxes of the Covid-19 Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine are ready to be distributed as part of a collaborative effort from the West Virginia National Guard, FamilyCare Health Centers and Toyota to vaccinate Toyota employees on March 26, 2021 on the grounds of the Toyota plant in Buffalo, West Virginia. Local and state health agencies have joined a national pause in use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by the firm Johnson & Johnson. But officials in Milwaukee and Madison are still urging peop...

Four different strains have been identified in Wisconsin, including several in the area. "Were now starting to share more data on these variant strains on our Wisconsin DHS website. Our variant data page now breaks down the number of the different variant strains by region," DHS Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard said. Since March 11, the positivity rate has almost doubled from two percent to 3.8 percent known active cases. It had been plummeting but started spiking again late March wit...

Vaccinators instructed to stop administering Johnson & Johnson vaccine

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is telling vaccine providers not to administer the Johnson & Johnson shot while federal health authorities investigate an extremely rare but severe blood-clotting reaction. Providers should keep the vaccine until a federal review has been completed, DHS secretary-designee Karen Timberlake said in a Tuesday statement.  Earlier Tuesday, federal health officials recommended an immediate halt to injections of the single-dose vaccine after six people in...