Suburbs’ vaccination rates higher than city’s
The Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management, which has been leading the county’s vaccine efforts, updated its COVID-19 dashboard on Thursday and it revealed new information about area vaccination rates.
A new feature of the dashboard displays vaccination rate by municipality, which shows all but one of Milwaukee’s suburbs have higher vaccination rates than the city. The exception is West Milwaukee, which is in a statistical tie with the city of Milwaukee for last place at 60% of its population receiving one dose.
The municipality with the highest vaccine rate is River Hills, 94% of its population has received one dose, while 57% of its population has received a booster dose.
In addition to River Hills, Whitefish Bay and Fox Point all have one-dose vaccination rates above 90%. All three have booster vaccination rates above 57%.
Shorewood and Bayside each have one-dose vaccination rates at 85% of its population, with booster rates above 55%.
Wauwatosa (79%), Greendale (79%), Glendale (78%), Franklin (76%), Oak Creek (75%) Brown Deer (73%), Hales Corners (71%), Greenfield (70%), Saint Francis (69%), Cudahy (65%), South Milwaukee (63%) and West Allis (62%) round out the rest of the county’s onedose vaccination rates.
Similar to national rates, booster rates in most Milwaukee municipalities continue to lag, with 13 of the 19 municipalities showing a booster rate below 50%. Milwaukee is as low as 27%.
The new data from the county also shows the older you are the more likely you were to get vaccinated, for both one-dose and booster.
When you look at the data by race, you find that the race with the highest percentage of residents who have received one dose are Native Americans (80%), while 79% of the Asian population, 65.7% of the white population and 62.7% of the Hispanic or Latino population received one dose.
Only 48.8% of the Black population in Milwaukee County has received one dose.
The preferred vaccine in Milwaukee County was Pfizer, roughly 64.1% of the population chose Pfizer for their first dose, while 30.3% chose Moderna and 5.6% chose Johnson & Johnson.
The preferred location to receive a vaccine was retail. Roughly 39% of the population received their first dose at a retail location, a little less than 35% chose a health care setting, and a little more than 20% chose a health department.
Lastly, the data shows that the majority of the population that is boostereligible (received two doses) chose to get the booster dose. Although roughly 54% of booster-eligible residents in the city of Milwaukee chose to get the booster, all the suburbs are higher, with the exception of West Milwaukee.
Wisconsin continues to average more than 1,700 vaccine dose a day, with roughly 840 doses being boosters. More than 64% of the population has received one dose, while more than 34% have received a booster dose.
Latest COVID-19 numbers (statewide)
● New cases reported (Friday): 1,995
● New deaths reported (Friday), confirmed: 7
● New deaths reported (Friday), probable: 3
● New deaths reported (last week), confirmed: 31
● New deaths reported (last week), probable: 32
● Number hospitalized: 391 (intensive care: 55); up 179 patients from a month ago
● Seven-day average of daily cases: 1,838 (up 672 cases from one month ago)
● Seven-day average of confirmed daily deaths: 4 (up two deaths from a month ago)
● Seven-day average of new deaths reported within 30 days of death: 4 (up three deaths from a month ago)
● Seven-day average positivity rate: 12.5% of all COVID-19 tests given
● Total cases since the start of pandemic: 1,468,151
● Total confirmed deaths: 12,997
● Total probable deaths: 1,597
Latest vaccine numbers
● Total doses administered: 9,520,943
● Seven-day average of daily doses: 1,707
● Weekly doses administered:
7,806 (as of Friday)
● Total booster doses administered: 2,036,428
● Seven-day average of daily booster doses: 840
● Residents who have received one dose: 3,758,083 (64.4% of the population)
● Residents who are fully vaccinated: 3,571,719 (61.2% of the population)
● Residents who have received a booster dose: 2,012,647 (34.5% of the population)
● Residents ages 5 to 11 with at least one dose: 136,356 (27.8% of age group)
● Residents ages 12 to 17 with at least one dose: 274,886 (61.9% of age group)
● Residents ages 18 to 24 with at least one dose: 329,820 (60.6% of age group)
● Residents ages 25 to 34 with at least one dose: 477,824 (64.5% of age group)
● Residents ages 35 to 44 with at least one dose: 501,395 (69.4% of age group)
● Residents ages 45 to 54 with at least one dose: 501,827 (71.8% of age group)
● Residents ages 55 to 64 with at least one dose: 641,119 (78.2% of age group)
● Residents 65 and older with at least one dose: 894,856 (85.4% of age group)