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How Wisconsin turned around its lagging vaccination program — and buoyed a Biden health pick Isaac Stanley-Becker, Dan Diamond © Scott Bauer/AP Andrea Palm, formerly secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, speaks to reporters in 2019. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File) When President Biden announced in January that he would make Wisconsin’s top health official his No. 2 at the Department of Health and Human Services, the state seemed like a poor model for the nation’s most crucial public health priority: fighting the pandemic. Wisconsin had just ...

COVID-19 shots at WI nursing homes start as soon as Dec. 28 COVID-19 shots at WI nursing homes start as soon as Dec. 28 Wisconsin health officials are ''hopeful'' the majority of residents in the state's skilled nursing facilities will be vaccinated by the end of January. WAUWATOSA, Wis. - The state of Wisconsin plans to use the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at nursing homes, with shots starting as soon as Dec. 28. Administrators at Luther Manor in Wauwatosa are planning who will get the vaccine first out of the nearly 800 residents and staff. About 200 to 300 of them are in the skilled nursing...