One Third of Wisconsin Residents Have Received Third Dose of COVID Vaccine

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 -- 1:00 PM

(WMTV) A third of Wisconsin residents have received their third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine (or second dose, if they started with the Johnson and Johnson version), new Dept. of Health Services data show.

However, while the number of people getting boosted is ticking up, the total number of doses delivered is heading the other way. Once again, Wisconsin recorded the fewest doses ever delivered in any week since the very first one, when supplies were trickling in and the list of people who could even get one was very short.

By the second week of vaccinations, when the state was facing similar obstacles, health officials managed to deliver nearly twice as many shots in arms as they did last week. The drop-off has not been a steady decline.

As recently as the first full week of 2022, when Wisconsin was in the grips of the Omicron variant and slowly getting past Delta, nearly nine times as many people went to get vaccinated.

DHS states just over 64 percent of Wisconsin residents have had at least one dose of the vaccine, while 60.6 percent of them have completed their series, which includes the two-week waiting period after completing the initial series.

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