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Federal regulators are considering whether to approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in kids age 12-15.
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Shamane Mills / Wisconsin Public Radio | 11:56 am, May 10, 2021 ×
Bottles holding the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit ready for use in December 2020. (Steve Kuchera / File / News Tribune)
If federal regulators approve the Pfizer vaccine for use in children age 12-15, local health officials say it will be a big step in increasing overall COVID-19 vaccination levels in Wisconsin.
That’s because 21% of the state’s population is under age 18, and vaccines are being tested in children as young as 6 months.
So far 37% of the state is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. While better than the nation, it’s nowhere near levels that might be needed for herd immunity, which are upwards of 70% of the population.
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A sign directs high schoolers and community members to the COVID-19 vaccination clinic set up in the school’s theater Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at St. Francis High School in St. Francis, Wis. Angela Major/WPR
If federal regulators approve the Pfizer vaccine for use in children age 12 to 15, local health officials say it will be a big step in increasing overall COVID-19 vaccination levels in Wisconsin.
That’s because 21 percent of the state’s population is under age 18, and vaccines are being tested in children as young as 6 months.
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April 22: Weekly Driftless Region COVID-19 update
DRIFTLESS - Over the past week COVID-19, diagnoses statewide increased from 587,710 on Monday, Apr. 12 to 590,831 on Monday, Apr. 19. That is a statewide increase of 5,121 cases. The number of deaths increased from 6,680 to 6,710, an additional 30 deaths, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS).
As of Monday, April 19, there have been 212 million vaccine doses administered in the U.S., and more than half of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. There have now been 31,484,148 cases of COVID in the U.S., and 564,292 deaths.
The state Department of Health Services (DHS) reported its seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases has declined for four consecutive days. It s been a month (March 20) since that last occurred. The seven-day average number of COVID-19 in-patients, as tracked by the Wisconsin Hospital Association, has risen for 13 consecutive days.