Nearly 13,000 Wisconsinites between 12 and 15 receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Nearly 13,000 Wisconsin children between the ages of 12 and 15 received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine through Saturday, after state and federal officials cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for them in the middle of last week.

The 12,697 Wisconsinites who received shots amount to about 4.3 percent of the total population of that age group.

Per state data, 45.3 percent of the state’s population, or 2,639,668 Wisconsinites, have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 39.4 percent, or 2,294,673, have completed their vaccination series.

Wisconsin vaccinators administered 4,869,481 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through Saturday.

They gave 14,493 doses on Saturday, with a seven-day average of 22,317 daily doses.

The Department of Health Services reported 550 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and 232 on Sunday, for a total of 606,158.

The state’s death toll is at 6,958 people. DHS reported four deaths on Saturday and none on Sunday.

So far, 3,511,714 Wisconsinites have been tested. DHS considers 7,167 cases active.

The seven-day average for daily new cases is 437, down 11 from Saturday and 116 from a week ago.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths is eight, the same as Saturday and down one from a week ago.

As of Saturday, the seven-day positivity rate by test was 2.8 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from Friday and down 0.4 percentage points from a week earlier, per preliminary data from DHS.

Per the Wisconsin Hospital Association, 323 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized on Sunday, down two from Saturday and up seven from a week ago.

There were 75 in intensive care units, down nine from Saturday and seven from a week ago.