JANESVILLE
The Rock County Public Health Department is working on a COVID-19 vaccine registration tool for those not included in eligible vaccine groups, Rock County Vaccine Coordinator Alison Chouinard said Thursday.
Chouinard said plans are in place to make online registration available soon.
âWe have plans in place to reach future groups as state guidance changes,â Chouinard said.
Health department officials answered questions Thursday during its first weekly COVID-19 update news conference. The news conferences will be streamed live on the health departmentâs Facebook page.
Because of the size of the vaccination groups now eligible, the state advisory committee tasked with naming eligible groups has paused meetings until rollout to adults 65 and older progresses, DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said earlier this week on a call with reporters.
Rock County s epidemiologist hopes some of the lopsided demographic data on local COVID-19 vaccinations evens out as vaccines become more widely available.
Submitted photo
The Amazon fulfillment center in Beloit and the Dollar General
distribution center in Janesville are two examples of the growing
warehousing and distribution sector of the local economy.
JANESVILLE
As local private and municipal economic development officials peer into the crystal ball of a new year, they say one new prospect is coming into view in 2021: More warehousing, distribution and supply-chain jobs could be headed to Janesville.
During a conference call with chamber of commerce group Forward Janesville on the future of the local economy this week, city of Janesville Economic Development Director Gale Price said he is seeing a sudden, dramatic uptick in interest for industrial developers.