Almost 15 Percent Of Wisconsin’s 12- To 15-Year-Olds Have Received COVID-19 Vaccine

New reports of COVID-19 cases are on the decline in Wisconsin, based on the latest data published by the state Department of Health Services.

DHS reported 151 new cases of the disease Monday, bringing the average for the past seven days to 329 daily cases. One week ago, the average was 424 daily cases. It’s typical for DHS to report fewer confirmed COVID-19 cases on Mondays, with labs usually posting fewer test results the day before.

There were 2,181 negative tests reported Monday.

As COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin continue to decline, more of the state’s residents are being vaccinated against the disease.

A total of 5,052,793 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in Wisconsin as of Monday, with 78.5 percent of Wisconsinites age 65 and up fully vaccinated. According to DHS, 14.7 percent of the state’s 12- to 15-year-olds have had their first doses of vaccine. That age group became eligible May 13.

As of Monday, 2,384,175 people in Wisconsin, or 40.9 percent of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after a single-dose of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine.

Increasing rates of vaccination have provided a sense of hope after a yearlong pandemic that has claimed the lives of 6,990 people in Wisconsin. There was one new death from COVID-19 reported Monday.

Other DHS data from Monday include:

• 608,583 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
• 3,538,401 total tests administered, 2,929,818 of which have been negative since the pandemic began.
• 30,667 people have been hospitalized because of the disease, or 5 percent of all positive cases, since the pandemic began.
• Daily testing capacity remains at 59,273, though only 2,332 new test results were reported Monday.

Coronavirus rates vary from county to county. In order to track COVID-19 activity levels, DHS looks at the number of new cases per a county’s population over a 14-day period — and whether there’s an upward or downward trend in new cases. Activity levels range from “very high,” “high,” “medium,” to “low.”

As of Wednesday, DHS data showed the state had one county — Polk — with a “very high” level, while the majority of Wisconsin counties had “high” levels of activity. There were growing case trajectories in one county and shrinking trajectories in 12. Wisconsin’s overall COVID-19 activity level is “high.”

For more about COVID-19, visit Coronavirus in Wisconsin.

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