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A new statewide immunization coalition, Immunize Wisconsin, will provide fact-based resources, education, and grants. Oconomowoc, WI September 06, 2022

A new statewide immunization coalition, Immunize Wisconsin, will provide fact-based resources, education, and grants.

Rock County infants aren’t as likely as before the COVID-19 pandemic to be fully vaccinated against diseases like diphtheria, polio and measles.

To mark National Infant Immunization Week, state health officials are calling on parents to make sure their kids are up to date on their routine vaccinations.

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...

COVID-19 shots at WI nursing homes start as soon as Dec. 28 COVID-19 shots at WI nursing homes start as soon as Dec. 28 Wisconsin health officials are hopeful the majority of residents in the states skilled nursing facilities will be vaccinated by the end of January. WAUWATOSA, Wis. - The state of Wisconsin plans to use the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at nursing homes, with shots starting as soon as Dec. 28. Administrators at Luther Manor in Wauwatosa are planning who will get the vaccine first...