Nearly 30 percent of Wisconsinites receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose

Nearly 30 percent of the state has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Wisconsin vaccinators administered 2,753,146 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through Monday.

They gave 22,653 doses on Monday, with a seven-day average of 48,474 daily shots.

Per state data, 29.7 percent of the state’s population, or 1,726,519 Wisconsinites, have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 17.4 percent, or 1,013,613 Wisconsinites, have completed their vaccination series.

The federal government has allocated 3,002,745 COVID-19 vaccine doses.

Vaccinators gave 1,453,436 Pfizer-BioNTech doses; 1,244,508 Moderna doses; and 55,080 Johnson & Johnson doses.

Healthcare providers gave 49 percent of shots, pharmacies gave 23.8 percent, local and tribal health departments gave 16.5 percent, community-based vaccination clinics gave 5 percent and other facilities gave 5.7 percent.

The Department of Health Services reported 588 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, for a total of 576,632.

The state’s death toll is at 6,612 people, after DHS reported 11 more deaths.

An additional 3,751 Wisconsinites have been tested for COVID-19, for a total of 3,292,030.

DHS considers 6,673 cases active.

The seven-day average for daily new cases is 501, up 34 from Monday and 114 from a week ago.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths is four, the same as Monday and down three from a week ago.

As of Monday, the seven-day positivity rate by test was 2.7 percent, the same as Sunday and up 0.4 percentage points from a week earlier, per preliminary data from DHS.

According to the Wisconsin Hospital Association, there were 250 total COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the state, up 23 from Monday and 33 from a week ago.

There were 66 in intensive care units, up eight from Monday and seven from a week ago.