Wisconsin DHS Stonewalling Questions About COVID Booster Shots
Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services is stonewalling requests for answers about COVID booster shots in the state.
The Center Square has repeatedly reached out to DHS with questions about the number of COVID boosters administered, how booster shots are being counted, and whether people in Wisconsin will be considered “fully vaccinated” after two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, or if they will need a booster.
Wisconsin DHS has not responded.
DHS is silent about how many booster doses Wisconsin has received, how many booster doses doctors and nurses have administered, and how many booster doses the state hopes to deliver.
Brett Healy, president of the MacIver Institute for Public Policy, which has tracked coronavirus and vaccine numbers in the state since the beginning of the outbreak, says DHS’s silence is telling.
“Rather than be transparent and open with the public they claim to serve, DHS is, once again, refusing to answer some basic questions about a major policy cha