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Wisconsin public health officials urge continued caution as COVID-19 variants drive an increase in cases Wisconsin is “moving in the right direction,” with more than 3,250,000 COVID-19 vaccines having been administered — but state public health officials sounded a note of caution on Wednesday, amid an increase in cases driven by new coronavirus variants. Deputy Health Services Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said 35 percent of the state has gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, and ju...

Vaccinators have administered over 3 million COVID-19 shots in the state. That means over a third of Wisconsin residents have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine and 20 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. But even as more people get vaccinated, cases of COVID-19 are rising across the state. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said that’s largely because of COVID variants. “What we’re doing is racing against the variants with t...

COVID-19 variant strains driving Wisconsin case rise COVID-19 variant strains driving Wisconsin case rise Health officials said it is only a matter of a few weeks before the U.K. variant becomes the dominant strain in Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE - In the race against COVID-19, a new opponent is gaining steam in Wisconsin. More people are being vaccinated, but Wisconsin health officials say the state is also seeing a steepening increase in cases. Health officials said it is only a matter of a few weeks...

‘Please, Please, Please’; State Officials Urge COVID-19 Vaccination By Rob Sussman Apr 8, 2021 4:55 PM MADISON, WI (WTAQ) — State officials are pushing for people to take advantage of widespread vaccine eligibility as the rate of COVID-19 infection in Wisconsin continues trending upwards. Over a thousand new COVID-19 cases were reported in the state of Wisconsin on Thursday. The state also reported that over a third of all Wisconsinites have received the COVID-19 vaccination...

Wisconsin records highest number of virus cases in 2 months SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin recorded the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in two months on Thursday, leading to new warnings from state health officials about the growing spread of more contagious variants and a renewed call for everyone to be vaccinated as soon as possible. The seven-day average of new cases was twice as high as a month ago. “There’s a danger of this pan...

GALLERY: Baraboo High School hosts mass vaccination clinic More than 800 area educators from the Baraboo, Wisconsin Dells and Lodi school districts, three Baraboo parochial schools and Madison College’s Reedsburg and Portage campuses got their first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday during a mass vaccination clinic at Baraboo High School coordinated by SSM Health. 1 of 23 Amanda Forshee, a sixth-grade teacher in the Wisconsin Dells School D...

More than 2 million residents are estimated to have one or more of the medical conditions that will qualify them for shots Monday.

RACINE — Health disparities locally and nationwide are more obvious amid COVID-19. While health results across the board remain worse for people of color in the U.S., they’re especially bad when it comes to COVID-19. Compared to whites, African Americans were 10% more likely to catch COVID-19, 190% more likely to be hospitalized for it and 90% more likely to die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Similarly, comparing outcomes of Latino or Hispanic pe...

MADISON, WI (WRN) - A lot of people in Wisconsin and elsewhere wonder which coronavirus vaccine they should get. The simple answer, according experts,...

A year changed some of what we knew about COVID and who it affects most. But heartbreak was the constant. John Diedrich, Sophie Carson, Irene Chang, and Andrew Mollica © Courtesy of Carmen Gardner-Jackson Diane Butler, center, poses for a photo at her graduation in 2013 from Bryant & Stratton College with her daughter, Carmen Gardner-Jackson, and her son-in-law Kelly Jackson. Butler earned a degree in criminal justice. She died in 2020 from COVID. A year ago, as deaths from t...