MADISON, WI (WTAQ) — Nearly 50% of Wisconsinites have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health officials announced Tuesday that 48.6% of Wisconsinites have had at least one shot.
Deputy DHS secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk says the state has fallen to around the middle of the pack nationally compared to other states.
“We’re still doing quite well,” said Willems Van Dijk. “We’re hanging right around 21, 22, 23 in terms of the rate of vaccine, of shots in arms.”
Case numbers are holding at around where they were at the start of the pandemic in March of 2020, but Bureau of Infectious Diseases Dr. Ryan Westergaard says the fight continues.
“Everyone who dies of COVID-19 is dying a preventable death,” said Westergaard. “I’m never going to advocate that we stop trying, or that we do less, or we stop being in a mode where we educate people.”
Westergaard says it’s likely that COVID-19 will become an endemic virus, and never truly be eradicated–much like the flu.
State officials also announced the relaunch of ‘You Stop the Spread’ campaign on Tuesday to encourage more people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The seven-day average of new confirmed cases rose to 151 on Tuesday. There were eight new deaths reported, bringing the seven-day average to four.
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