MADISON, Wis. — In a sign the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, public health officials in Dane County say a record low number of people are in the hospital as a result of the disease.
Public Health Madison & Dane County says as of 5 p.m. Tuesday, only 12 people in the county were hospitalized with COVID-19, and only three people were in intensive care.
That’s down significantly from two months ago, when 77 people in Dane County were in the hospital with COVID-19. A month before that, on December 23, the number was 148 people.
The numbers were part of an update to the county’s COVID-19 dashboard, which now shows that 31.4% of people in Dane County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, including 87.3% of the county’s population over the age of 65.
PHMDC data shows nearly 1 in 5 people in the county — 19.1% — are now fully vaccinated.
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