Gov. Evers Signs Executive Order to Ensure Access to Vaccines in Wisconsin
After Trump Administration recklessly undermines medical professionals and access to safe and effective vaccines, governor directs whole-of-government response to protecting vaccine access statewide to keep kids, parents, families, and seniors, among others, safe
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today signed Executive Order #275, directing the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to use every lever and take every action available to ensure Wisconsinites can access safe, effective vaccines to help keep themselves and their families safe.
“Vaccines save lives, folks. Spreading fear, distrust, and disinformation about safe and effective vaccines isn’t just reckless, it’s dangerous,” said Gov. Evers. “RFK and the Trump Administration are inserting partisan politics into healthcare and the science-based decisions of medical professionals and are putting the health and lives of kids, families, and folks across our state at risk in the process. Here in Wisconsin, we will continue to follow the science to ensure Wisconsinites have access to the healthcare they need when and where they need it to make their own healthcare decisions that are right for them.”
In recent months, the federal government has worked to eliminate scientific and medical expertise while restricting authorization and access to certain critical vaccines that help prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death. Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has led a dangerous and reckless misinformation campaign questioning the effectiveness and utility of vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, which are safe, effective, and have been received by hundreds of millions of people under some of the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history. The move is a stark departure from President Donald J. Trump’s administration during his first term in office, which was responsible for authorizing and approving vaccines designed to prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death for COVID-19—the same vaccines the new Trump Administration now aims to curtail.
Additionally, the order directs DHS to work with the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI), Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board, and any other relevant state agencies and offices to continue to identify, review, and remove barriers to vaccine access to the fullest extent permitted by law and available funding to ensure vaccines remain broadly and readily accessible to Wisconsinites. The order also directs OCI to work with health plans to develop guidance to insurers regarding safeguarding their access to and limiting the costs of vaccines in various healthcare settings, including pharmacies.
A copy of Gov. Evers’ Executive Order #275 is available here.
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