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Now is the time to get your COVID-19 vaccine if you haven’t already done so, according to Governor Tony Evers.
In a COVID update with the Department of Health Services on Wednesday, the Governor urged people to get vaccinated.
“Summer is right around the corner and getting vaccinated will also us to get back to all the gatherings and events we miss,” said Evers.
More than two million Wisconsinites are fully vaccinated.
DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said we’re no longer seeing the urgency of getting a vaccine like we did earlier this year.
PHOENIX Arizona is reporting 469 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths.
The latest figures posted by the state Department of Health Services on Wednesday bring the pandemic totals to 870,624 cases and 17,430 deaths.
Hospitalizations of patients with the virus climbed slightly to 599 statewide. Of those, 190 were in ICUs.
Meanwhile, more than 5.4 million vaccine doses to date have been administered in Arizona. More than 3 million people, or 42.8% of the state’s eligible population, have received at least one dose. Over 2.5 million have been fully vaccinated.
Arizona on Tuesday saw more than 11,100 doses administered, almost half of the number issued a day earlier.
Big Tucson vaccine site plans halted, mobile service sought
April 21, 2021
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) A plan to establish a large federally supported mass vaccination in metro Tucson is being shelved and Pima County instead is now asking for mobile vaccination sites.
Follow weeks of discussions, state and federal officials did not reach agreement on details of an agreement for authorizing and running the proposed mass vaccination site, officials said Tuesday.
The county is now pivoting to ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency for mobile sites capable of providing about 300 shots daily to reach populations that could use help getting vaccinated, said County Administrator Chuck Huckleberry.
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TUCSON, Ariz. A plan to establish a large federally supported mass vaccination in metro Tucson is being shelved and Pima County instead is now asking for mobile vaccination sites.
Follow weeks of discussions, state and federal officials did not reach agreement on details of an agreement for authorizing and running the proposed mass vaccination site, officials said Tuesday.
The county is now pivoting to ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency for mobile sites capable of providing about 300 shots daily to reach populations that could use help getting vaccinated, said County Administrator Chuck Huckleberry.
“It’s an inconvenience for a variety of reasons because they don’t have the technology, they don’t have the time, because they don’t have the wherewithal, mobility issues, language barriers,” said Dr. Francisco Garcia, the county’s medical officer. “We need to decrease