‘They are essential to everyone’: Groups hopeful as child care workers considered for next phase of vaccine distribution
January 13, 2021 7:29 PM Madalyn O Neill
Updated:
Tuesday morning, the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee (SDMAC) Vaccine Subcommittee met to finalize its recommendations for Phase 1B, which will be sent to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The experts’ recommendations include people older than 70, people living in congregate settings such as Family Care, jails or shelters, and frontline essential workers such as first responders, educators and child care workers with direct interaction with students.
“As the group has thought about populations, they’ve really focused on who is most vulnerable. Who is most at risk?” DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said. “What essential services do we need to make sure are in place?”
Confused about COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy? Doctors push for change
Confused about COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy? Doctors push for change
Efforts to avoid experimenting on pregnant women in clinical trials are unintentionally making them part of an experiment in everyday life.
MILWAUKEE - Efforts to avoid experimenting on pregnant women in clinical trials are unintentionally making them part of an experiment in everyday life.
This conundrum puts pregnant health care workers first in line to make big decisions with little data about the COVID-19 vaccines, all while they are on the front lines of fighting a virus that is dangerous for expectant moms.
By Madalyn O Neill
Jan 13, 2021 7:29 PM
Tuesday morning, the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee (SDMAC) Vaccine Subcommittee met to finalize its recommendations for Phase 1B, which will be sent to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The experts’ recommendations include people older than 70, people living in congregate settings such as Family Care, jails or shelters, and frontline essential workers such as first responders, educators and child care workers with direct interaction with students.
“As the group has thought about populations, they’ve really focused on who is most vulnerable. Who is most at risk?” DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said. “What essential services do we need to make sure are in place?”