Of all positive cases reported since the pandemic began, 532,793, or 96.6 percent, are considered recovered.
As of Wednesday, the state Department of Health said that they have administered 809,370 vaccines to Wisconsin residents, an increase of approximately 30,000 from the day before. In Western Wisconsin to date, 45,210 people have received the vaccine, an increase of approximately 2,700. The DHS figures show that 23,817 doses of the vaccine were given to residents in La Crosse County, an increase of 1,300 from the day before. Wisconsin residents who completed the vaccination series is now at 183,758, or about 9,000 more than the day before. Find more about COVID-19 vaccine distribution here.
By: Bill Osmulski
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) was forced to finally abandon its flawed positivity formula this week because it was producing increasing inaccurate results – exactly what the MacIver Institute predicted would happen back in September.
That formula attempted to calculate Wisconsin’s positivity rate using a “by person” method, DHS incorrectly believed was backed by the CDC.
Every day, DHS compared the number of new COVID-19 cases and the number of people tested for the first time. The CDC’s instructions for the “by person” method are to compare the number of new people with COVID-19 and the number of individual people tested. MacIver warned that DHS’ mistake would lead to an inaccurate and inflated positivity rate.
February 11: Weekly Driftless Region COVID-19 update
Editors note: this story is updated as of Thursday, Feb. 11, in the COVID variants section to reflect growth in numbers.
DRIFTLESS - Over the past week COVID-19, diagnoses statewide increased from 543,165 on Monday, Feb. 1 to 550,639 on Monday, Feb. 8. That is a statewide increase of 7,204 cases. The number of deaths increased from 5,897 to 6,055, an additional 158 deaths, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Monday COVID update
On Monday, Feb. 8, the White House COVID-19 Response Team held a public briefing.
White House COVID-19 Response Team Lead Andy Slavitt reinforced that the focus of the vaccine effort to start has been to vaccinate those most at risk, in cluding residents in long-term care facilities and skilled nursing homes. To date, 40 million doses of the vaccine have been administered to these populations, as well as to frontline healthcare workers.
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CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) announced Jan. 31 that $47,056,978 in federal funding has been made available to Wisconsin Department of Health Services for costs related to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan under the federal disaster declaration of April 4, 2020.