MADISON, Wisconsin (WBAY) – The latest figures from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) show that the number of people who completed the COVID-19 vaccine series in the past 24 hours has broken another daily record.
Another 18,607 people completed the series, breaking the previous day’s record of residents who completed the series, totaling the total number of people who received both doses of 16,580. To date, a total of 232,178 people in the state have completed the series of vaccines, which is equivalent to about 4.0%. CLICK HERE to track the number of vaccines in the state, as well as by municipality.
At the current rate, Wisconsin could achieve 1 million “shots in the arm” of COVID-19 vaccines early next week, including the first and second doses. The state says vaccinators have administered 940,205 total doses over the past 2 months. That’s an increase of 38,872 more shots than reported on Friday. These numbers may reflect vaccines given in the past 3 days, as vacciners’ reports keep coming.
The new vaccine registration comes as confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state continue to decline.
On Saturday, state health officials reported that, of the 4,504 new results for people being tested or testing positive for the coronavirus for the first time, 752 tested positive for the virus. The percentage of positive tests was below 17% for the second consecutive day (16.7%).
Since the beginning of the month, the state has notified eight days of new cases in a single day, less than 1,000, and every day has reported less than 2,000 cases per day.
The 7-day average dropped to 806, which is the lowest 7-day average since September 5. DHS is emphasizing the positivity rate for all tests – that is, including people who have been tested multiple times, such as healthcare workers and COVID-19 patient recovery – and by that measure, the average 7-day positivity rate fell to 3.4% on Friday, the latest data available.
The state added 10 new deaths to the cumulative death toll of COVID-19 on Saturday, which now stands at 6,161. The seven-day mortality rate dropped to 16. That number dropped to less than 20 on Friday, and it was the first time it had dropped to that level since October.
New deaths have been reported in Chippewa, Columbia, Juneau, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Rock, Sawyer and Shawano counties, while the state has revised the death figures in Sauk and Washington counties.
Action 2 News has developed a guide to vaccination clinics and health agencies that distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 65 and over. CLICK HERE for locations and phone numbers and websites to register.
Since the first coronavirus patient in Wisconsin on February 5, 2020, there are 554,800 people tested positive for the COVID-19 virus:
- 96.8% (536,864) recovered
- 2.1% (11,616) are active cases, diagnosed or showing symptoms in the last 30 days
- 1.11% (6,161) died
HOSPITALIZATIONS
DHS also reports that 71 people have been hospitalized for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. This helped to reduce the average 7 days to 63 new patients per day, the lowest number since September 29. A total of 25,268 people have already been hospitalized for treatment with COVID-19 in the past 53 weeks, or 4.6% of all cases.
Taking into account deaths and discharges, the latest numbers from the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) report on Saturday that there are currently 421 patients with COVID-19 among the 134 hospitals in the state, with 125 in an intensive car. There are 5 more in the ICU and 40 fewer patients with COVID-19 in hospitals in general. Both are the smallest since September 20.
Fox Valley hospitalizations declined on Saturday. The 13 hospitals are treating 26 patients with COVID-19, two less than on Friday, with 7 in the ICU, a number that has remained stable since Friday.
The situation improved slightly in the Northeast on Saturday. The 10 hospitals in the region of 7 counties treated 44 patients with COVID-19, four fewer than on Friday, with 13 of them in the ICU, a number that has remained stable since Friday.
READY HOSPITAL
In terms of hospital readiness, the WHA reports that by Friday, 303 beds in the intensive care unit in the state are unoccupied (20.66%), with 2,173 (19.44%) of the total number of medical beds (ICU, care intermediates, medical surgical and negative flow isolation) are open.
The 13 hospitals in the Fox Valley region reported 14 open ICU beds (13.46%) among them, and a total of 133 unoccupied medical beds (15.59%) in the eight municipalities they serve.
Hospitals in the Northeast region had 42 ICU beds (20.28%) open and 201 of the total number of unoccupied medical beds (21.02%).
These beds are for all patients, not just COVID-19. We use the terms “open” or “unoccupied” instead of “available” because filling a bed depends on whether hospitals have staff for the patient in that bed, including doctors, nurses and food services.
SATURDAY COUNTY AND TOTAL DEATH (Municipalities with new cases or deaths are indicated in audacious) *
Wisconsin
- Adams – 1,543 cases (+1) (11 deaths)
- Ashland – 1,168 cases (16 deaths)
- Barron – 5,236 boxes (+11) (74 deaths)
- Bayfield – 1,059 cases (18 deaths)
- Brown – 29,878 boxes (+28) (202 deaths)
- Buffalo – 1,304 boxes (7 deaths)
- Burnett – 1,148 cases (+7) (23 deaths)
- Calumet – 5,390 boxes (+10) (41 deaths)
- Chippewa – 6,961 cases (+7) (88 deaths) (+1)
- Clark – 3,139 cases (+3) (56 deaths)
- Columbia – 4,950 boxes (+5) (50 deaths) (+3)
- Crawford – 1,655 boxes (+3) (17 deaths)
- Dane – 39,212 (+88) (264 deaths)
- Dodge – 11,310 boxes (+9) (154 deaths)
- Port – 2,390 cases (19 deaths)
- Douglas – 3,633 boxes (+3) (23 deaths)
- Dunn – 4,176 boxes (+8) (26 deaths)
- Eau Claire – 10,837 cases (+11) (104 deaths)
- Florence – 431 cases (+1) (12 deaths)
- Fond du Lac – 11,794 boxes (+13) (88 deaths)
- Forest – 918 boxes (+1) (23 deaths)
- Concession – 4,593 cases (+6) (79 deaths)
- Green – 2,964 boxes (+22) (16 deaths)
- Lago Verde – 1,515 cases (18 deaths)
- Iowa – 1,830 cases (+2) (9 deaths)
- Iron – 515 boxes (+1) (19 deaths)
- Jackson – 2,571 cases (+4) (23 deaths)
- Jefferson – 7,757 cases (+13) (75 deaths)
- Juneau – 2,955 cases (+5) (19 deaths) (+1)
- Kenosha – 14,590 cases (+23) (288 deaths) (+1)
- Kewaunee – 2,399 cases (+1) (27 deaths)
- La Crosse – 12,012 cases (+4) (75 deaths)
- Lafayette – 1,407 boxes (+2) (7 deaths)
- Langlade – 1,918 boxes (+2) (31 deaths)
- Lincoln – 2,867 boxes (+4) (56 deaths)
- Manitowoc – 7,140 boxes (+4) (61 deaths)
- Marathon – 13,484 cases (+24) (171 deaths)
- Marinette – 3,951 boxes (+2) (61 deaths)
- Marquette – 1,294 boxes (+3) (21 deaths)
- Menominee – 792 cases (11 deaths)
- Milwaukee – 96,918 (+107) (1,188 deaths) (+2)
- Monroe – 4,212 boxes (+8) (30 deaths)
- Oconto – 4,218 cases (+7) (47 deaths)
- Oneida – 3,301 cases (+9) (64 deaths)
- Outagamie – 18,896 cases (+37) (186 deaths)
- Ozaukee – 7,519 cases (+9) (73 deaths)
- Pepin – 797 boxes (+6) (7 deaths)
- Drilling – 3,410 boxes (+5) (33 deaths)
- Polk – 3,759 boxes (+8) (43 deaths)
- Portage – 6,351 cases (+14) (63 deaths)
- Price – 1,130 boxes (+1) (7 deaths)
- Racine – 20,122 cases (+28) (314 deaths)
- Richland – 1,257 cases (+2) (13 deaths)
- Rock – 14,140 cases (+21) (150 deaths) (+2)
- Rusk – 1,240 cases (16 deaths)
- Sauk – 5,173 cases (+5) (37 deaths) (Revised status, decrease by 1)
- Sawyer – 1,461 boxes (+6) (20 kills) (+1)
- Shawano – 4,551 cases (+3) (70 deaths) (+1)
- Sheboygan – 12,650 boxes (+6) (125 deaths)
- St. Croix – 6,251 cases (+7) (42 deaths)
- Taylor – 1,784 boxes (+3) (20 deaths)
- Trempealeau – 3,354 boxes (+10) (36 deaths)
- Vernon – 1,793 boxes (+2) (36 deaths)
- Villas – 2,058 boxes (+5) (36 deaths)
- Walworth – 8,734 boxes (+1) (124 deaths)
- Washburn – 1,269 cases (+3) (18 deaths)
- Washington – 13,574 cases (+19) (127 deaths) (Revised status, decrease by 1)
- Waukesha – 39,978 boxes (+58) (466 deaths)
- Waupaca – 4,713 boxes (+4) (110 deaths)
- Waushara – 2,084 cases (+2) (28 deaths)
- Winnebago – 16,803 cases (+11) (177 deaths)
- Wood – 6,614 boxes (+14) (72 deaths)
Michigan Upper Peninsula **
* Cases and deaths come from DHS COVID-19 daily reports, which may differ from local health department numbers. DHS reports cases from all health departments within the boundaries of a county, including tribal, municipal and district health departments; county sites cannot. In addition, public health departments update their data at various times, while DHS freezes the numbers it receives at the same time each day to compile the afternoon report.
DHS reports deaths attributed to COVID-19 or in which COVID-19 contributed to his death. Most people severely affected by the coronavirus have underlying diseases or conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or obesity, which increases a person’s risk of dying from COVID-19. They would have lived longer if it weren’t for their infection. The state can review the numbers of cases and deaths after further analysis, such as the victim’s residence, duplicate records or a correction to laboratory results. Details can be found on the DHS website and in the FAQ.
** Michigan does not update numbers on Sundays. Monday’s figures include updates since Saturday’s reporting deadline.
COVID-19 tracking application
Wisconsin’s COVID-19 tracking app, “Wisconsin Exposure Notification”, is available for iOS and Android smartphones. No download is required for iPhones. The Android app is available on Google Play. When two phones with the app (and presumably their owners) are close enough, long enough, they anonymously share a random sequence of numbers via Bluetooth. If someone’s test is positive for the coronavirus, you will receive a code to enter into the application. If your phones “dripped” into each other in the last 14 days, you will receive a push notification that you are at risk of exposure. The app does not collect personal or location information, so you will not know who or where, but you will be informed on what day the exhibition may have taken place so that you can quarantine it for the appropriate period of time.
Symptoms
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified these as possible symptoms of COVID-19:
- Fever of 100.4 or higher
- Cough
- Shortness of breathe
- Chills
- Repeated tremors with chills
- Muscle pain
- Headache
- Sore throat
- New loss of taste or smell
Prevention
- Coronavirus is a new or “innovative” virus. No one has natural immunity to it.
- Children and adolescents seem to recover better from the virus. Elderly and those with underlying health problems (heart disease, diabetes, lung disease) are considered to be at high risk, according to the CDC. Precautions are also needed with people with a developing or weakened immune system.
- To help prevent the virus from spreading:
- Stay at least two meters away from other people
- Avoid close contact with people who are or appear to be sick
- Stay at home as much as possible
- Cancel events and avoid groups, meetings, game dates and non-essential appointments
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