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Replies(5) According to state health officials, COVID-19 has more severe consequences in older adults and prioritizing this population will help protect more Wisconsinites from serious illness and death. (Shutterstock) ACROSS WISCONSIN — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Jan. 25. Currently, front-line 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 700,0...

  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...

Colorado’s long-term care facility administrators are concerned about the alarming number of their staff who are refusing the coronavirus vaccine, reigniting a debate over whether workers can be required to

Close Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken out. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP) The Aspen Times via The Associated Press CAROL MCKINLEY S...

2:07 Local and tribal health departments are getting more funding from the state to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Governors Evers and the Department of Health Services announced the funding last week. The $86 million is being divided among Wisconsin’s local and tribal health departments. DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said the funds are meant to help with cost of coordinating and administering COVID-19 vaccines as well as keep up with COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. “Just like our healthcare partners, our public health partners have been and continue to be on the fro...