DAVID WAHLBERG
Wisconsin might open COVID-19 vaccination to people 70 and older and limited groups of essential workers once most health care workers and nursing home residents are immunized, according to discussion by a state committee Friday.
The groupâs deliberations about who should get the vaccine next came as Gov. Tony Evers and seven other Democratic governors asked federal health officials to release more doses of COVID-19 vaccine. President-elect Joe Biden said he would stop holding back second doses for people who have received one, as the Trump administration has done.
âThe failure to distribute these doses to states who request them is unconscionable and unacceptable,â the governors wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
HHS releases $22 billion for testing and vaccinations To get shots in arms faster, HHS has begun its partnership with 19 pharmacy chains.
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The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are releasing more than $22 billion in funding to help states, territories and localities provide testing and vaccinations.
The money is part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act recently passed by Congress.
More than $19 billion will be allocated to jurisdictions through the existing CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity cooperative agreement to support testing, contract tracing, surveillance, containment, and mitigation to monitor and suppress the spread of COVID-19.