Parents of children ages 5-11 hoping to have their children vaccinated through the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health will have to wait just a bit longer. In its first of two weekly coronavirus pandemic updates issued on Monday, the DPH said that they will not be vaccinating that age group during its free Walk-In Wednesday vaccination clinic held at the Health and Human Services building on North 8th Street. The agency is currently waiting on shipment of the pediatric Pfizer vaccine and is also in the process of training staff in pediatric COVID vaccine administration. Updates will be posted on the COVID-19 page of the county website – sheboygancounty.com – as soon as it is able to be offered. Meanwhile, those wishing to have their children vaccinated sooner can do so through Prevea Health which began administering the 2-shot series to children today. Parents can register for having their children vaccinated through a free MyPrevea.com account. One does not need to be a Prevea patient in order to sign up for the vaccines.
As of Monday, 650 active cases of COVID-19 were being monitored by the County DPH, a drop of 59 cases compared with Friday. 63 new confirmed positive tests were received since Friday, while 122 persons recovered in the same time. 17,420 cases in all have been logged here during the pandemic.
There are 18 current hospitalizations for treatment of COVID-19 symptoms, 1 less than on Friday. With 7 new admissions over the weekend, there have been 891 patients here.
The level of community transmission in Sheboygan County remains at a “high” level. The total number of new cases over the last 7 days per 100,000 population is 372.81, a slight decrease from Friday’s 383.21. The percent of positive test results received in the last week’s time was 11.34%, also down slightly from Friday’s 11.72%.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services had not updated vaccine data as of 4:15PM on Monday. Friday’s data indicates that 65,298 county residents have now received at least one shot of vaccine. That’s 57 more than on Thursday, and amounts to 56.6% of the population. 62,414, or 54.1%, have completed their vaccination series.
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