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Lost in your own hell : As pandemic recedes, worsened opioid epidemic persists

‘Lost in your own hell’: As pandemic recedes, worsened opioid epidemic persists July 7, 2021 8:34 PM Madalyn O Neill Updated: MINERAL POINT, Wis. – The COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed and worsened a deadly epidemic that touches so many in the country. The challenges of the pandemic drove many to substance use, whether it was a new habit or an old one. ‘I had no one to talk to’: COVID disrupts usual support system “I had a really bad life until moving here,” said Shaun Jaco, sitting on a swinging bench outside his Mineral Point home. “I never had friends like I have up here.” It took a change of scenery and a new support system for his life to look brighter.

No COVID-19 deaths reported in Wisconsin

As of Wednesday, a total of 5,642,553 vaccines have been administered throughout Wisconsin. So far, 50.5 percent of Wisconsinites have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, and 47.7 percent of the state has completed the vaccine series. Vaccination numbers can change on a rolling basis as the state gets more data each day. DHS has a county-level dashboard to assess the COVID-19 activity level in counties and Healthcare Emergency Readiness Coalition regions that measure what DHS calls the burden in each county. 

Facts behind the COVID-19 vaccine fears causing hesitancy among Blacks

View Comments Dr. Kevin Izard has heard it all when it comes to theories about why Blacks are hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The one that makes him chuckle is the vaccine contains microchips to track people. He said it would easier for “Dr. Evil” to hack the banking system than to make a chip small enough to be injected into someone’s bloodstream. “And why would somebody go through all the trouble to track you anyway when they can track you on your cellphone so much easier?” asked Izard, chair of family medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and former president of the Cream City Medical Society

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