WISCONSIN (WTAQ-WRN) — Public Health officials around Wisconsin are reminding us that COVID-19 is still here.
Dr. Ben Weston, Milwaukee County’s Chief Health Policy Advisor, notes only 18 percent of county residents have received the bivalent booster for COVID-19.
“So if we want to target a group that is the group to target, talk to your parents talk to your grandparents, your neighbors, that 65 plus group is the most important one to get the bivalent booster.” said Weston.
Weston says thus far, only 49% of those 65 plus in the county have received that booster.