Wisconsinites age 65 and older will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning January 25. Wisconsin Department of Health Services made the announced
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Dickinson County has confirmed 11 new COVID-19 positives and Iron County five new since its last report Friday, local health officials said.
The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department posted on Facebook that Dickinson County also had 46 cases now considered recovered and Iron County eight recoveries.
The DIDHD on Monday had Dickinson County at 2,070 confirmed positives and 218 probable cases, with 2,014 recovered, 67 deaths and 207 cases still active. For Iron County, the DIDHD showed 829 confirmed cases and 65 probables, with 754 recovered, 34 deaths and 106 still active.
Across the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Monday added 68 confirmed positives since Saturday: 17 in Houghton County, 14 in Gogebic County, nine in Marquette County, six in Dickinson County, five in Menominee County, four each in Delta and Alger counties, three each in Iron and Ontonagon counties, two in Chippewa County and one each
Michael Best Strategies partner Karen Timberlake to serve as DHS interim secretary
Karen Timberlake
Karen Timberlake, a partner at Michael Best Strategies’ Madison office, will serve as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ interim secretary.
Timberlake replaces Andrea Palm, who has been nominated as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration. Palm will depart DHS on Wednesday, and Timberlake will take over in the interim starting Jan. 25.
This isn’t Timberlake’s first time working for DHS. She served as the secretary of the agency from 2008 to 2011, under Gov. Jim Doyle. Her time in office included managing the department during its 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus response.