Appointments for the community-based vaccination clinic at Regency Mall are rapidly filling up for the week of March 29, while there are many appointments still available for the week of April 5. Residents can register for the clinic by visiting the Wisconsin COVID-19 Vaccine Registry at https://vaccinate.wi.gov. They will then receive an invite to book […]
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Holiday to Affect COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Hours for Kenosha County
The Kenosha County Public Health COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinic will not be in operation on Friday, April 2, due to the Good Friday holiday. People who become eligible for their second dose that day will be invited to make appointments beginning April 7. This remains well within the 42-day period after a first dose in […]
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Racine County Emergency Operations Center marks anniversary
RACINE – Friday marked the first anniversary of the Racine County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activation to manage and support the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic. An EOC is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out emergency management and ensuring its continuity. It is set up during large or complex incidents that require a high […]
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City relaxes Safer Racine order
RACINE – City officials plan to loosen the Safer Racine ordinance restrictions, which will allow businesses to have more people in their establishments. The policy change takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday, according to a press release by the City of Racine. Dottie-Kay Bowersox, the City of Racine Public Health Administrator, executed an emergency order […]
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Wisconsin has wasted few COVID-19 vaccine doses, data show
By Bram Sable-Smith WPR/Wisconsin Watch Wisconsin vaccine providers reported 2,247 wasted or spoiled doses of COVID-19 vaccine through February, state Department of Health Services records show. That’s less than 0.16% of the more than 1.4 million vaccine doses administered statewide during that same period. The figures track waste only from providers receiving doses from the […]
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How to Get a COVID-19 Shot in Wisconsin: Vaccine Hunters Share Tips
By Bram Sable-Smith, WPR/Wisconsin Watch Robin Davis was thrilled to learn that Wisconsin deemed her family eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting March 1. That offered hope that she and her children could soon safely venture outside their Milwaukee home. For the past year, the 56-year-old has mostly hunkered down with her son, 26, and daughter, […]
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New Kenosha County Vaccination Clinic Now Operational
Kenosha County Public Health’s expanded-capacity COVID-19 community vaccination clinic is now operational in the former Shopko building at 5300 52nd St. in Kenosha. The former clinic site in the Kenosha County Job Center is no longer operational. Those who have appointments to receive both the first and second dose of the vaccine from Kenosha County […]
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Nearly 17% Of County Residents COVID Vaccinated
RACINE COUNTY – County officials reported Monday that 16.8 percent of Racine County residents (32,919 people) had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, more than 50 percent of the county’s age 65+ population have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. In its weekly update, the county also reported planned changes […]
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Milwaukee VA lowers age threshold for COVID vaccinations to those 60 and older, offers Saturday walk-in clinic
The Milwaukee VA Medical Center is expanding COVID-19 vaccinations to include those enrolled veterans age 60 and older and is offering a walk-in clinic on Saturday, March 6. Previously, the threshold had been ages 65 and older. The medical center is reaching out directly to schedule appointments. Veterans using VEText will start seeing appointment requests via text message on their mobile devices beginning Tuesday, […]
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Newest COVID-19 Vaccine Expected in State Next Week
MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) expects to receive an initial allocation of about 47,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Johnson & Johnson, next week. The vaccine doses will be incorporated into the state’s vaccine allocation strategy. The U.S. Food & Drug on Feb. 27 issued an emergency use authorization […]
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State COVID Vaccine Map Appears Full of Inaccuracies
By Robert Chappell The vaccine provider map the Department of Health Services announced today seems rife with errors, based on a small survey of providers listed. Several reporters across the state reached out to providers listed as having vaccine available for all eligible people, and found that nearly half were not, in fact, offering vaccines, […]
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Racine County Jail reports no new COVID-19 cases for 18 days
The Racine County Sheriff’s Office has been COVID-19-free for 18 days, officials said in a press release issued Friday. That includes jail staff, contractors, volunteers, and inmates, according to the release. Public-facing sheriff’s office staff have been COVID-free for 42 days, according to the release. Jails and prisons report a higher infection rate for COVID-19. […]
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Racine County Selected For COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
RACINE COUNTY – Racine County is among four additional locations that will have community-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics. The locations, which also include La Crosse and Marathon counties and a clinic split between Douglas and Barron counties, were announced Tuesday by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). The new clinics, to be operated by AMI […]
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‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate
By Vanessa SwalesWisconsin Watch Calvin Johnson spent his final weeks at Prairie du Chien Correctional Institution wracked in pandemic anxiety, a former cellmate recalled. He closely tracked COVID-19’s spread in and outside of the medium-security state prison — eyeing daily infection counts in surrounding Crawford County and across Wisconsin. Johnson, who grew up in Milwaukee and […]
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COVID-19 Vaccines Remain in Short Supply This Week
RACINE COUNTY – COVID-19 vaccines remain in short supply both statewide and locally, Racine County officials reported this week. As of Monday, 19,822 county residents – or about 10 percent of the population – have received at least one dose of the vaccine. The county’s two public health departments (City of Racine Health Department and […]