DHS to distribute COVID-19 vaccine doses to vaccinators using on-demand system
May 5, 2021 4:49 PM Gabriella Bachara
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MADISON, Wis.– Demand is going down and supply is going up. So, in an effort to save vaccine from going unused, Wisconsin Department of Health Services is switching its distribution method.
“What we saw last week is a number of vaccinators who had requested vaccine on the survey they sent two weeks prior, canceling some of their orders, because they had sufficient inventory and they did not want to build up their inventory any further,” DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said.
Rather than vaccinators requesting and hoping for all of it to come, they are now able to ask for however many doses they need and DHS will send them that number.
Wisconsin school boards pull back some COVID-19 safety measures; doctors express concern
School boards and districts across southeast Wisconsin have been revisiting their COVID-19 safety measures, with some pulling away from requiring face masks and quarantine.
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School boards and districts across southeast Wisconsin have been revisiting their COVID-19 safety measures, with some pulling away from requiring face masks and quarantine.
In a narrow vote, the School District of Waukesha school board voted Tuesday night to stop requiring quarantine for students or staff identified as a close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, is presumed positive, or waiting for a test result.
On Wednesday, the figure was 626.
The seven-day average of positive cases measures the average number of new cases per day over the previous week. An overall decrease in the seven-day average of positive cases indicates the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the state is also going down, according to DHS.
The number of negative tests in the state was 2,864,060 Wednesday, an increase of 4,387.
An additional 73 people have been hospitalized because of the virus since Tuesday, bringing the total to 29,600. Overall, 4.9% of Wisconsinites who contracted the virus have been hospitalized.
Wednesday s report also showed that 97.4% of the people who have tested positive for the virus have recovered. That means 1.4%, or 8,666
Fraction of COVID vaccine doses ordered for Wisconsin: DHS
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Demand for the vaccines in Wisconsin is softening
Wisconsin health officials said Thursday that they ve ordered only a fraction of the COVID-19 vaccine doses the federal government had set aside for the state for next week, another sign of plateauing interest in the shots.
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin health officials said Thursday, May 6 that they ve ordered only a fraction of the COVID-19 vaccine doses the federal government had set aside for the state for next week, another sign of plateauing interest in the shots.
The federal government has allocated 86,580 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine, 65,900 first doses of the Moderna vaccine and 10,200 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine for the week starting Monday. Wisconsin Department of Health Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Goodsitt said the agency has ordered 9,120 Pfizer doses, 2,070 Moderna doses and just 2,100 Johnson & Johnson doses.
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