3,943 New Cases, 123 Hospitalizations and 16 Deaths Reported Sunday

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 3,493 new COVID-19 cases from 18,062 tests.

The seven-day positive case rate, the percentage of tests that confirm a new case of the disease, stands at 29.55%. The 14-day average set a low of 2.69% on June 19th.

Officials have looked for the positive case rate to trend downward to indicate a slowing spread of disease and sufficient testing. Multiple public health benchmarks call for the positive case rate figure to be sustained under five percent.

A total of 30,697 Wisconsin residents have tested positive for the disease in the past week, just below the record 30,830 recorded in the week ending Saturday. Since the pandemic began 228,863 people have tested positive.

Lagging indicators of the disease’s spread continue to set new highs, while state health officials warn that hospitalization and death surges are connected to earlier record case reports.

Dr. Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer of the DHS Bureau of Communicable Diseases, called it a “nightmare scenario” during a Tuesday afternoon press briefing.

Friday morning he expressed dismay with how things are going.

“Personally and frankly I am surprised and disappointed that we have failed as much as we have to slow the virus. I say that because it is important to understand that there is still time to turn this around,” said Westergaard.

He said left unchecked the virus would infect 70 to 80 percent of Wisconsin residents. “It’s probably fewer than 10% of Wisconsin residents that have been infected,” said Westergaard, estimating those with confirmed and unconfirmed cases.

“I think it’s so important we understand we can turn the corner,” he said. “If we don’t do that it would not be surprising for numbers to continue to get worse.”

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported 1,534 people are actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease. That’s up 24 in the past 24 hours and 239 since last week, but below a record 1,546 set last week.

The state reported 123 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours. A total of 11,497 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 1,165 in the past week.

Nine patients are in the Alternate Care Facility in West Allis.

DHS reported 16 deaths Sunday. A total of 2,047 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 592 in Milwaukee County. Officials confirmed Tuesday that the total includes only people where a medical examiner determined the disease was a contributing factor in the death.

A record average of 23.13 deaths per day have been reported over the past 30 days. Thirty days ago the figure stood at 7.03.Westergaard said the case fatality rate has fallen because of a broadening age distribution in those who contract the virus. “Anyone who is infected can become severely ill,” he said, noting that death wasn’t the only negative outcome. “I think the short lesson is deaths are on the rise because cases on the rise.”

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 17th worst in the state, even as its case and hospitalization load has surged to record levels.

Menominee County has recorded 7,850.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 7,759). Shawano County has recorded 6,502.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 6,371.8). Brown, Oconto, Kewaunee, Winnebago, Calumet, Forest, Langlade, Outagamie, Dodge, Florence, Waupaca, Fond du Lac, Marinette and Sheboygan counties are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 4,603.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 4,538.4).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 3,958.8 (up from 3,898.4). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 891.7 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks according to the DHS activity level report released Wednesday.

Charts and Maps

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by gender

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by race

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by ethnicity

Cases and deaths by county

	Number of confirmed cases	Number of negatives*	Number of probable cases	Number of deaths †	Number of probable deaths ‡	Cases per 100,000 people (counties)	Deaths per 100,000 people (counties)	Case fatality percentage ††
Adams	587	5,192	43	5	0	2,864.10	24.4	0.90%
Ashland	301	4,197	10	3	0	1,897.50	18.9	1.00%
Barron	1,320	12,555	32	7	0	2,877.10	15.3	0.50%
Bayfield	280	4,042	12	2	0	1,841.60	13.2	0.70%
Brown	16,210	94,369	371	103	3	6,226.70	39.6	0.60%
Buffalo	338	3,254	7	3	0	2,502.00	22.2	0.90%
Burnett	328	3,762	16	6	0	2,123.40	38.8	1.80%
Calumet	2,857	13,725	68	14	0	5,550.20	27.2	0.50%
Chippewa	1,958	19,236	36	24	2	3,048.90	37.4	1.20%
Clark	1,021	7,122	80	17	3	2,938.90	48.9	1.70%
Columbia	1,945	19,690	142	7	0	3,404.60	12.3	0.40%
Crawford	389	5,213	7	1	0	2,349.70	6	0.30%
Dane	16,011	242,765	582	49	2	3,029.50	9.3	0.30%
Dodge	4,746	29,060	193	35	1	5,320.30	39.2	0.70%
Door	953	9,415	69	9	0	3,397.40	32.1	0.90%
Douglas	843	10,346	5	1	0	1,921.40	2.3	0.10%
Dunn	1,193	11,574	48	1	0	2,664.30	2.2	0.10%
Eau Claire	3,960	30,646	41	21	1	3,848.70	20.4	0.50%
Florence	223	1,170	12	8	0	5,044.10	181	3.60%
Fond du Lac	5,111	30,194	160	23	0	4,944.20	22.2	0.50%
Forest	505	2,637	19	11	0	5,499.90	119.8	2.20%
Grant	2,043	16,991	86	36	1	3,900.80	68.7	1.80%
Green	1,058	10,685	20	6	0	2,870.00	16.3	0.60%
Green Lake	815	5,331	120	4	0	4,269.70	21	0.50%
Iowa	569	7,279	29	2	0	2,390.90	8.4	0.40%
Iron	216	1,824	44	4	0	3,696.10	68.4	1.90%
Jackson	602	7,604	7	2	0	2,916.10	9.7	0.30%
Jefferson	3,016	24,908	128	19	0	3,561.90	22.4	0.60%
Juneau	852	10,910	7	5	0	3,166.30	18.6	0.60%
Kenosha	5,570	49,457	566	88	2	3,310.90	52.3	1.60%
Kewaunee	1,176	5,177	31	8	0	5,696.60	38.8	0.70%
La Crosse	4,608	33,134	164	23	0	3,894.10	19.4	0.50%
Lafayette	600	4,501	11	1	0	3,553.90	5.9	0.20%
Langlade	1,081	4,920	41	11	2	5,465.90	55.6	1.00%
Lincoln	965	7,082	44	12	2	3,392.90	42.2	1.20%
Manitowoc	3,058	19,907	363	16	3	3,810.40	19.9	0.50%
Marathon	5,441	32,306	410	61	5	4,038.10	45.3	1.10%
Marinette	1,915	12,416	135	16	0	4,677.80	39.1	0.80%
Marquette	705	4,254	84	2	0	4,584.50	13	0.30%
Menominee	344	3,256	0	0	0	7,850.30	0	0.00%
Milwaukee	43,482	321,478	2,799	593	5	4,603.80	62.8	1.40%
Monroe	1,267	12,772	22	8	0	2,754.50	17.4	0.60%
Oconto	2,270	11,827	102	18	3	5,979.70	47.4	0.80%
Oneida	1,373	11,683	25	13	0	3,823.10	36.2	0.90%
Outagamie	9,864	55,869	405	81	0	5,366.70	44.1	0.80%
Ozaukee	2,529	25,497	271	25	2	2,862.20	28.3	1.00%
Pepin	172	1,912	3	0	0	2,340.50	0	0.00%
Pierce	819	10,088	233	7	1	1,967.10	16.8	0.90%
Polk	664	11,748	16	3	0	1,512.50	6.8	0.50%
Portage	3,006	17,976	81	21	1	4,250.60	29.7	0.70%
Price	411	3,748	19	3	0	2,976.50	21.7	0.70%
Racine	8,178	79,226	855	114	2	4,189.50	58.4	1.40%
Richland	500	6,994	16	9	0	2,822.90	50.8	1.80%
Rock	5,702	49,609	255	46	2	3,557.90	28.7	0.80%
Rusk	251	3,110	12	1	0	1,727.00	6.9	0.40%
Sauk	1,967	25,454	70	8	0	3,137.90	12.8	0.40%
Sawyer	419	5,551	5	4	0	2,528.80	24.1	1.00%
Shawano	2,683	12,219	29	26	1	6,502.70	63	1.00%
Sheboygan	5,290	30,670	184	31	1	4,619.50	27.1	0.60%
St. Croix	2,103	21,781	98	11	0	2,385.20	12.5	0.50%
Taylor	555	3,814	34	7	0	2,696.80	34	1.30%
Trempealeau	1,144	8,138	24	4	0	3,900.20	13.6	0.30%
Vernon	543	8,664	5	2	0	1,792.80	6.6	0.40%
Vilas	656	5,921	21	7	0	3,029.20	32.3	1.10%
Walworth	3,590	29,059	312	39	1	3,498.50	38	1.10%
Washburn	267	3,889	7	2	0	1,684.20	12.6	0.70%
Washington	4,887	34,424	404	44	2	3,633.80	32.7	0.90%
Waukesha	13,463	108,485	1,106	125	3	3,377.20	31.4	0.90%
Waupaca	2,616	14,021	279	47	8	5,056.90	90.9	1.80%
Waushara	1,107	8,261	13	5	0	4,555.90	20.6	0.50%
Winnebago	9,438	55,898	489	67	2	5,573.30	39.6	0.70%
Wood	1,933	19,313	123	10	2	2,611.20	13.5	0.50%