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Boxes of the Covid-19 Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine are ready to be distributed as part of a collaborative effort from the West Virginia National Guard, FamilyCare Health Centers and Toyota to vaccinate Toyota employees on March 26, 2021 on the grounds of the Toyota plant in Buffalo, West Virginia.
Milwaukee County is resuming use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that states can resume use of the vaccine, with a warning about rare complications involving blood clots.
The CDC had originally paused its use because of six cases of blood clots in women out of 6.8 million doses given.
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MILWAUKEE, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), a statewide health philanthropy based at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has announced a $230,000 funding award to support a coalition of partners in increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates in Milwaukee County, with a focus on 10 highly impacted and high-risk ZIP codes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the systemic disparities in health equity that exist based on race and ethnicity in our state that have had a significant impact in Milwaukee County in particular, said Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, director of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment and senior associate dean at the Medical College of Wisconsin. To address these disparities, we aim to support the expansion of work to reach Milwaukee County s highly impacted and vulnerable residents while building a model that can inform continuing efforts across the state.