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MADISON, Wis. (AP) About 2 million more Wisconsin residents, including those with certain pre-existing conditions, will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in the next round to be announced later this week, the state’s deputy health secretary said Monday.
That would be the single largest expansion of vaccine-eligible people in Wisconsin since the first doses began trickling into the state in the mid-December. Those were targeted to front-line health care workers, then expanded to those over age 65 and this month a group of 700,000 people. including all teachers, were made eligible.
Health officials have been under pressure to broaden those eligible to people with underlying health conditions that could put them more at risk of serious illness should they get COVID-19. State health officials have been working to determine which pre-existing conditions will make a person eligible and are expected to announce the next group, about 2 million people, on Thursd
The number of positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin rose by 463 Tuesday, March 9, officials with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported, for a total of 567,334.
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