COVID-19 Cases, Testing Dropping

The Department of Health Services reported 4,059 new cases Sunday from 13,642 processed tests.

Wisconsin’s case totals are now dropping faster than testing totals, even when filtering out variations caused by the day of the week.

The seven-day case total stands at 24,596, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 78,640, below November 18th’s record rolling total of 133,019 tests. The testing total is filtered to only include individuals who were tested for the first time or have been tested previously but are receiving their first positive diagnosis.

The seven-day positive case rate, the percentage of tests that confirm a new case of the disease and proxy for if the disease’s spread is growing or slowing, stands at 31.28%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 32.74%. 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.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 1,425 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 41 from a day ago and but a decrease of 77 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 2,077.

DHS reported 87 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 19,249 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 1,033 in the past week.

DHS reported 15 new deaths. A total of 4,056 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 815 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at an average of 49.43, below a peak of 51.93 on December 9th. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 33.57.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 20th worst in the state, even as its case and hospitalization load has surged to record levels. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 14,650.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 14,559.6). Dodge County has recorded 10,844.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 10,802.1). Jackson, Shawano, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Crawford, Kewaunee, Sheboygan, Barron, Florence, forest, Calumet, Chippewa, Langlade, Winnebago, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 8,165.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 8,101.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 7,555.3 (up from 7,507.6). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 910.3 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks according to the DHS activity level report released Wednesday. That’s down from the record 1,519.4 reported November 18th.

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	1,187	6,417	100	10	2	5,791.7	48.8	0.8%
Ashland	874	5,680	34	13	0	5,509.7	82.0	1.5%
Barron	4,021	16,111	77	50	0	8,764.2	109.0	1.2%
Bayfield	819	5,591	22	16	0	5,386.7	105.2	2.0%
Brown	24,332	109,818	1,210	150	10	9,346.6	57.6	0.6%
Buffalo	904	4,182	16	6	0	6,691.8	44.4	0.7%
Burnett	912	5,112	93	15	0	5,904.1	97.1	1.6%
Calumet	4,381	16,861	280	30	1	8,510.8	58.3	0.7%
Chippewa	5,424	24,079	82	60	2	8,446.0	93.4	1.1%
Clark	2,506	8,838	234	44	4	7,213.4	126.7	1.8%
Columbia	3,867	23,304	257	19	1	6,769.0	33.3	0.5%
Crawford	1,463	6,484	42	10	0	8,837.2	60.4	0.7%
Dane	30,474	284,654	1,034	113	4	5,766.2	21.4	0.4%
Dodge	9,674	35,282	502	87	7	10,844.7	97.5	0.9%
Door	1,786	11,709	140	11	1	6,367.0	39.2	0.6%
Douglas	2,619	14,768	294	14	12	5,969.4	31.9	0.5%
Dunn	3,156	15,230	191	18	0	7,048.3	40.2	0.6%
Eau Claire	8,486	39,812	187	65	9	8,247.4	63.2	0.8%
Florence	377	1,394	24	12	0	8,527.5	271.4	3.2%
Fond du Lac	9,579	37,035	625	59	7	9,266.4	57.1	0.6%
Forest	782	3,482	53	20	2	8,516.7	217.8	2.6%
Grant	3,838	19,922	385	70	4	7,328.1	133.7	1.8%
Green	2,012	13,142	45	8	1	5,457.9	21.7	0.4%
Green Lake	1,287	6,445	301	9	2	6,742.5	47.2	0.7%
Iowa	1,483	9,245	61	5	1	6,231.4	21.0	0.3%
Iron	398	2,177	79	10	6	6,810.4	171.1	2.5%
Jackson	2,062	9,177	29	6	0	9,988.4	29.1	0.3%
Jefferson	6,007	30,375	539	45	3	7,094.2	53.1	0.7%
Juneau	2,180	12,982	14	8	0	8,101.7	29.7	0.4%
Kenosha	10,915	61,593	1,257	178	6	6,488.1	105.8	1.6%
Kewaunee	1,839	6,141	107	22	1	8,908.2	106.6	1.2%
La Crosse	9,116	42,999	381	43	0	7,703.7	36.3	0.5%
Lafayette	1,151	5,416	89	4	1	6,817.5	23.7	0.3%
Langlade	1,658	5,872	106	29	10	8,383.5	146.6	1.7%
Lincoln	2,191	8,806	123	36	14	7,703.4	126.6	1.6%
Manitowoc	5,500	24,503	769	47	4	6,853.2	58.6	0.9%
Marathon	10,930	41,994	986	142	20	8,111.9	105.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,291	14,936	290	36	0	8,039.0	87.9	1.1%
Marquette	1,100	5,055	143	15	2	7,153.1	97.5	1.4%
Menominee	642	3,622	3	8	0	14,650.8	182.6	1.2%
Milwaukee	77,118	392,557	5,836	815	14	8,165.1	86.3	1.1%
Monroe	3,043	15,663	38	20	0	6,615.5	43.5	0.7%
Oconto	3,493	14,052	255	33	4	9,201.3	86.9	0.9%
Oneida	2,609	13,459	70	46	3	7,264.8	128.1	1.8%
Outagamie	14,933	67,633	1,116	141	1	8,124.6	76.7	0.9%
Ozaukee	5,540	32,301	679	43	5	6,269.8	48.7	0.8%
Pepin	570	2,512	17	5	0	7,756.2	68.0	0.9%
Pierce	2,593	13,731	563	21	5	6,227.9	50.4	0.8%
Polk	2,658	15,668	27	20	0	6,054.7	45.6	0.8%
Portage	5,119	22,246	304	43	3	7,238.5	60.8	0.8%
Price	850	4,601	62	4	0	6,155.9	29.0	0.5%
Racine	15,759	90,904	1,654	221	6	8,073.1	113.2	1.4%
Richland	974	7,810	31	13	0	5,499.1	73.4	1.3%
Rock	10,890	61,495	627	102	3	6,795.0	63.6	0.9%
Rusk	1,013	4,087	32	11	0	6,969.9	75.7	1.1%
Sauk	4,035	30,762	162	21	3	6,436.8	33.5	0.5%
Sawyer	1,049	6,841	12	8	0	6,331.1	48.3	0.8%
Shawano	3,903	14,402	298	53	6	9,459.5	128.5	1.4%
Sheboygan	10,207	38,313	373	79	2	8,913.2	69.0	0.8%
St. Croix	4,903	28,730	675	22	0	5,560.9	25.0	0.4%
Taylor	1,461	4,803	164	13	5	7,099.1	63.2	0.9%
Trempealeau	2,712	10,151	72	24	1	9,245.9	81.8	0.9%
Vernon	1,332	10,908	39	17	0	4,397.9	56.1	1.3%
Vilas	1,429	7,122	43	19	2	6,598.6	87.7	1.3%
Walworth	6,888	35,056	1,453	70	4	6,712.5	68.2	1.0%
Washburn	886	5,131	68	7	1	5,588.8	44.2	0.8%
Washington	10,321	43,047	1,244	87	5	7,674.4	64.7	0.8%
Waukesha	30,299	138,320	2,431	282	19	7,600.6	70.7	0.9%
Waupaca	3,899	16,635	567	92	32	7,537.1	177.8	2.4%
Waushara	1,830	9,451	120	13	1	7,531.5	53.5	0.7%
Winnebago	14,231	67,089	1,641	137	12	8,403.6	80.9	1.0%
Wood	5,003	25,041	306	31	9	6,758.4	41.9	0.6%