The number of positive cases of COVID-19 rose by 2,269 on Friday, Jan. 15, officials with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported, for a total of 518,251.
MADISON, Wis. On December 14, TV screens everywhere showed frontline nurses in Wisconsin and around the U.S. getting their first COVID-19 vaccine dose. Emotions ran high after nearly ten months spent fighting a virus that has taken more than 5,600 lives in Wisconsin; the end was in sight.
One month later, the excitement has faded into questions, concerns and partisan finger pointing as–like in many states around the country–administered vaccines fall behind widespread expectations.
Frontline Workers
At a small, independently owned pharmacy in Jefferson–aptly named The Drug store–staff won’t have their vaccine for at least another week. Maybe not even then, if their allotment request to the Department of Health Services isn’t met. (Last week, the state wasn’t able to get enough vaccines to meet vaccinator requests, and said they expect that to happen again.)