The Sheboygan County Division of Public Health reported 1,000 active cases of COVID-19 in the county as of Monday’s report, declining from Friday’s 1,117. That decline over the weekend is in line with established patterns for the last several months. 72 new positives were received since Friday, with 189 recoveries in the same period. 19,431 persons in all have experienced a COVID-19 infection in Sheboygan County, with 176 persons dying as a result. The toll has not increased since November 16.
29 persons are currently hospitalized for treatment, up one from Friday as 7 persons were admitted and 6 discharged. There have been a total of 974 patients here during the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control assigns Sheboygan County’s Level of Community Transmission as “High”, with 595.63 new cases per 100,000 persons over the last 7 days. That’s up nearly 125 points since Friday. 14.63% of tests in the last week have returned positive, a 0.4% gain over the weekend.
Vaccine data, as well as other figures, from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, was delayed due to an upgrade of the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System that took place over the weekend, and will be updated as soon as it’s available. As of Friday, 57.9% of the County population had received at least one dose of vaccine (66,757) and 55.2%, or 63,724, were fully vaccinated.



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