Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023

Dubuque County COVID-19 Update

56 New Cases in Last 7 Days

Safety Monitoring of Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 

After the CDC’s October 2022 recommendation for bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccination for children aged 5–11 years, children in this age group received approximately 953,359 bivalent booster doses from October 12, 2022, to January 1, 2023.

Early safety findings from v-safe and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for bivalent booster vaccination in children aged 5–11 years are similar to those described for monovalent booster vaccination. Neither myocarditis nor death were reported after bivalent booster vaccination.

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New COVID Cases

https://hhs.iowa.gov/covid-19-reporting

• 56* new positive cases reported since Jan. 11.
• Total positive cases/individuals reported to date = 30,647

* Due to the wide availability of at-home rapid tests, the results of which are usually not reported/recorded, new COVID cases are underreported. The number reported in this update is the number of new cases reported to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Deaths

• No new additional deaths reported. Dubuque County's total to date is 325.