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Replies(5) According to state health officials, COVID-19 has more severe consequences in older adults and prioritizing this population will help protect more Wisconsinites from serious illness and death. (Shutterstock) ACROSS WISCONSIN — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Jan. 25. Currently, front-line health care workers, residents in long-term care facilities (nursing homes and ass...

  Today the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning January 25. Currently, frontline health care workers, residents in long-term care facilities (nursing homes and assisted living facilities), and police and fire personnel are eligible. There are approximately 700,000 Wisconsinites who are 65 and older and Wisconsin currently receives around 70,000 first-dose vaccines per week from the federal go...

Colorado’s long-term care facility administrators are concerned about the alarming number of their staff who are refusing the coronavirus vaccine, reigniting a debate over whether workers can be required to

Close Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken ou...

2:07 Local and tribal health departments are getting more funding from the state to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Governors Evers and the Department of Health Services announced the funding last week. The $86 million is being divided among Wisconsin’s local and tribal health departments. DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said the funds are meant to help with cost of coordinating and administering COVID-19 vaccines as well as keep up with COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. “J...

COVID Update New Jersey: Residents, staff at long-term care facilities begin getting 2nd dose of vaccine Replay Video UP NEXT Residents and workers at the first long-term care facility in New Jersey to get the COVID-19 vaccination began receiving their second doses Monday. Governor Phil Murphy and Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli were on hand at the Roosevelt Care Center in Old Bridge for the event, as the state continues to mourn more than 7,200 long-term care residents who have died from...

Anthony Johnson reports on New Jerseys State of the State address. Mildred, who has now live through two pandemics, received her shot to a round of applause. She was followed by nurse Esther Moodey, the states first nursing home staff member to receive the vaccine. "It is an understatement to say that this has been an incredibly challenging year for all of us in healthcare, on many levels," Moodey said after receiving the first dose. "I am thankful for the COVID-19 vaccine and honored to be the...

Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) say the internal database they use to track COVID-19 cases has been experiencing problems that has caused incomplete case reporting for several days.

Test positivity rate in Knox County finally drops below state benchmark GALESBURG —The Knox County Health Department announced 100 new COVID-19 cases Friday that were detected between Tuesday and Thursday in the county. The new positive cases include 32 female and 68 male individuals. While rates of infection remain high in the county, Knox County has made its way off of the State of Illinois COVID level orange advisories. The advisories, meant to assess whether counties are meeting targets f...

Long-term care facility hit hard by COVID-19 receives vaccine Officials at a nursing facility in Deep East Texas dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak receive vaccine Friday. Hemphill Care Center is located in Hemphill, Texas. (Source: KTRE) By Jeremy Thomas | January 15, 2021 at 8:05 PM CST - Updated January 17 at 10:06 AM HEMPHILL, Texas (KTRE) - Officials at a nursing facility in Deep East Texas say they have been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed 10 residents since Thanksgi...