More than 1,700 patients remain hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wisconsin – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported Monday that more than 1,700 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state a steady increase over the weekend.

And Advocate Aurora Health, the state's largest health system, reportedthat fully vaccinated and boosted patients make up only 8% of its hospitalized COVID-19 patients andone-third of fully vaccinated hospitalized patients are immunocompromised.

This data was released Monday by Aurora but is from Nov. 30. The data is fromhospitals in both Illinois and Wisconsin. The largest Aurora hospital in the Milwaukee area is St. Luke's.

Driving home the importance of getting vaccinated, Aurora also reported that 74% of its hospitalized COVID patients have never received a COVID vaccine shot.

The seven-day average of daily COVID-19 cases increased over the weekend, rising to 3,457 cases onMonday.

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The state Department of Health Services, the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and other laboratory partners regularly perform whole genome sequencing on a portion of positive tests. The numbers below do not represent the total number of variant cases.

Contact Drake Bentley at (414) 391-5647 orDBentley1@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DrakeBentleyMJS.

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