The new vaccination program comes as Evers and his administration oppose growing criticism from state Republicans over Wisconsin’s vaccine implementation effort. Adding to the problems, the Democratic governor said Friday that Vice President Mike Pence and the U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar told him earlier in the week that additional vaccines were available, but said officials later that the stock had already gone down. . State health officials say vaccine use in Wisconsin is largely limited by the number of doses given by the federal government. Evers, along with Democratic governors in Michigan and Minnesota, sent a letter to Azar on Friday expressing frustration over the wrong “distribution of COVID-19 vaccines” by President Donald Trump’s administration, while asking Azar to permit states to -and buy vaccine doses directly. The governors also strived to call on the Trump administration to get as many doses of vaccine as feasible to supply to states.
Evers also announced Friday that it plans to issue a new COVID-19 public health emergency and a 60-day extension to the state mask mandate, which was first released in July. The state standard order requires everyone aged 5 and over to wear a face mask when indoors or in any enclosed space open to the public. The latest order is expected to expire in January. 19. The mobile vaccination program is expected to be launched on Tuesday, starting with nine teams across the state, and is expected to be launched later in vaccine use. Julie Willems Van Dijk, deputy secretary for the state Department of Health Services, said to achieve the state goal of an 80% protective herd by the end of June, the state should have 1.4 million doses of vaccine per month. Currently, Wisconsin receives 467,000 shots per month. More than 518,000 Wisconsinites have been successfully diagnosed with coronavirus and more than 5,300 have died.
Willems Van Dijk said the mobile teams will consist of between 12 and 15 people who will register, vaccinate and monitor recipients. Each team is expected to have a capacity of about 70 to 140 vaccines per day, but this could increase. Guard members, along with volunteer pharmacy or breastfeeding students through the University of Wisconsin system, will hire mobile teams. UW System announced on Friday that it is providing a $ 500 tuition loan for students who volunteer to administer vaccinations. Wisconsin is currently in phase 1a of its vaccine, which aims to protect the health of employees and residents of nursing homes and supported living facilities. The first phase of Program 1b – first responders, or police and firefighters (non-paramedic firefighters (drugs are in 1a) – starts on Monday. The U.S. Senate, which represents a lower-level legislature last week by a Republican Senate, passed Tuesday. Later that day, Evers said he would sign the bill when he arrived at his desk. Assembly leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, said in a statement that he was “incredibly disappointed” by the Senate bill because it does not include measures created by the GOP Assembly that would relieve places of worship of related closures. from COVID-19 or would prohibit local health officials from closing their business for more than two weeks in a row.
