A health worker prepares for an injection of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination for traders and workers at a shopping center in Tangerang, Indonesia, Monday, March 1, 2021.
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) – Wisconsin departed from the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for not prioritizing individuals with chronic health conditions as they distribute coronavirus vaccines in the state.
The state committee that set the vaccine priority in Wisconsin failed to follow the CDC’s advice that people aged 16 to 64 with underlying medical conditions should be vaccinated at the same time as essential workers and people aged 65 and over.
The deputy secretary of the State Department of Health Services, Julie Willems Van Dijk, says that the risk of mortality was one of the most important factors that the state considered when determining the order of vaccines. She says she also considered who was most likely to spread the virus.
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