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At noon on Friday at the Lac du Flambeau Youth Center, clusters of students bend over bowls of wild rice and pages of schoolwork.
“I come here and do everything I missed from the last week,” said Tristan Poupart, a tribal student at Lakeland Union High School
Poupart is at the Youth Center for Remote Friday.
It’s a practice the school adopted in response to the challenges of COVID-19.
After a quarter of pandemic schooling, teachers felt overwhelmed trying to teach some students in-person and others online at the same time, and students learning remotely sometimes needed an opportunity to connect with teachers face-to-face.
By Mike Leischner
COVID 19 vaccination clinic at NTC in Wausau. MWC photo by Mike Leischner
MINOCQUA, WI (WSAU) â A walk-in vaccine clinic at Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua that was scheduled to distribute the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine will now issue doses of the Moderna version.
The change was announced Thursday morning by the county health department. Anyone over the age of 18 will be able to walk into the school without an appointment on Saturday, April 24th starting at 10 AM and running until all doses have been administered, or until 2 PM.
The clinic will be open to anyone who hasnât received their first dose of the vaccine. Those who take advantage of the clinic will then be scheduled for a second dose on Saturday, May 22nd.
Star Journal Wisconsin pauses administration of J & J vaccine
Star Journal Staff
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is instructing Wisconsin vaccine providers to stop administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to a federal review of adverse side effects reported.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called for the pause, saying six cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis were reported in the U.S. There have been nearly seven million doses of Johnson & Johnson administered.
“We are pausing administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of an abundance of caution. At this time, these adverse events appear to be extremely rare,” said DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. “Vaccine providers should not administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at this time, and should hold on to the vaccine until federal rev
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) â The areaâs first no appointment COVID-19 vaccine clinic was held Saturday on the UWSP campus.
The University teamed up with Marshfield Clinic to distribute 1,000 doses of the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine, and the event turned out to be pretty popular.
WAOW TV reports residents and students were lined up for hours before the clinic opened. For many, this was their first chance to get the vaccine, as the state only recently opened up eligibility to all over the age of 16. For others, the appeal of the single-shot vaccination was the draw.
âThatâs the key, one and done, donât have to come back for a second dose,â said Wayne Wise, one of those that lined up for the vaccine.