Updated: 4:24 PM CDT Apr 22, 2021 FEMA will end its COVID-19 vaccine distribution at the Wisconsin Center next month.Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in WisconsinThe announcement was made Thursday morning.The last day for vaccines at the Wisconsin Center will be May 28.The Milwaukee Health Department will continue vaccine distribution at the Northwest and Southside Health Centers.The city hopes to continue with mobile vaccination sites to bring the vaccine into the community. There were also plans for drive-thru vaccine distribution.City officials have not yet said where that will be. If the demand is there, we will make sure we have the ability to have vaccinations but I think everyone understands if people aren t coming, those resources should go somewhere else, Mayor Tom Barrett said.FEMA has the capacity to administer as many as 4,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses per day.Officials said about 2,000 doses have been administered each day, on average.FEMA said it would administ
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin National Guard specimen collection teams will gather COVID-19 specimens Monday through Wednesday this week due to the New Year’s holiday.
Teams have collected a cumulative total of nearly 990,000 specimens at community-based testing sites and institutional-based testing missions. The Wisconsin National Guard’s collection activities support the Wisconsin Department of Health Service’s efforts to expand COVID-19 testing throughout the entire state.
The teams, which are tailorable to meet the needs of a specific facility or community, are dispatched from a larger task force of several hundred Citizen Soldiers and Airmen. They have established mobile testing sites since early April at locations ranging from correctional facilities, health clinics and institutional facilities, to private businesses, senior-living facilities, and community-based testing sites.