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  Today the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning January 25. Currently, frontline health care workers, residents in long-term care facilities (nursing homes and assisted living facilities), and police and fire personnel are eligible. There are approximately 700,000 Wisconsinites who are 65 and older and Wisconsin currently receives around 70,000 first-dose vaccines per week from the federal government. It will take time to vaccinate this population in Wisconsin. “Older adults have been har...

Republicans want faster, wider rollout. Evers says state needs more vaccine. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Freshly drawn up doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are placed in a tray Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison. Angela Major/WPR Republican state lawmakers criticized Gov. Tony Evers’ administration on Thursday for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in Wisconsin, saying projections for when the vaccine will be available to the general public are unacceptable. The Assembly health commit...

Wisconsin Examiner Gov. Tony Evers (left) and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (right) at recent separate news conferences, showing their divergent approaches to public health. Evers' briefing was conducted online. Vos' was held in person, although it was also livestreamed. (Photo illustration) On Tuesday — as Wisconsin set a record-high number of 107 deaths from COVID-19 — Gov. Tony Evers got on the phone with incoming Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to discuss how to address the pandemic that is ravaging Wisconsin. Afterward, Vos unveiled a 23-page sum...