MADISON, WI (WRN) – Wisconsin lags behind most Midwest states in vaccinating people against COVID-19.
Wisconsin has administered a little more than 11-hundred doses per 100-thousand people. Only Michigan and Kansas are going slower.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Wisconsin has administered about a-third of the roughly 208-thousand doses it’s received. That’s a little better than the nationwide average.
For now, Wisconsin’s vaccination effort is focused on health care workers and first responders.
As questions swirl around Wisconsin’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, Governor Tony Evers is urging state residents not to take their eye off the ball.
“All this interest in the vaccinations, I get it. But at the end of the day if we let our guard down because of the expectation that we’re going to get a shot tomorrow and life is going to be good, we will be making a horrible, horrible mistake.”
During a Tuesday media conference call, Evers said he doesn’t expect to be vaccinated until this summer, and he urged everyone to be patient while continuing to do things to minimize the spread of the virus.
