Lowest COVID-19 Testing Total in 111 Days

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 2,446 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,588 processed tests. It’s the lowest testing total reported since September 14th, 111 days ago.

The seven-day case total stands at 15,713, well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 46,193, 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 34.02%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 29.85%. 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 1,069 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 51 from a day prior, but a decrease of 19 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,660.

DHS reported 80 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 21,529 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 700 in the past week.

DHS reported five new deaths. A total of 4,875 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 984 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 41.67, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 48.97.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 21st 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 16,362.4 cases per 100,000 residents up from 16,339.6). Dodge County has recorded 11,731.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 11,715.7). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Crawford, Forest, Chippewa, Langlade, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,078.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,055.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,416 (up from 8,373.7). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 562.1 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	1,318	6,790	127	11	2	6,430.8	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,013	6,066	53	16	0	6,385.9	100.9	1.6%
Barron	4,534	16,855	110	57	0	9,882.3	124.2	1.3%
Bayfield	936	5,849	32	18	0	6,156.3	118.4	1.9%
Brown	26,463	115,107	1,540	162	11	10,165.2	62.2	0.6%
Buffalo	1,005	4,435	25	7	0	7,439.5	51.8	0.7%
Burnett	1,006	5,333	106	19	0	6,512.6	123.0	1.9%
Calumet	4,722	17,851	353	35	2	9,173.2	68.0	0.7%
Chippewa	5,972	25,192	102	66	2	9,299.3	102.8	1.1%
Clark	2,841	9,290	321	51	4	8,177.7	146.8	1.8%
Columbia	4,264	24,114	298	32	6	7,463.9	56.0	0.8%
Crawford	1,560	6,722	46	12	0	9,423.1	72.5	0.8%
Dane	33,807	295,450	1,193	182	17	6,396.8	34.4	0.5%
Dodge	10,465	36,799	619	125	17	11,731.4	140.1	1.2%
Door	2,065	12,363	164	13	2	7,361.6	46.3	0.6%
Douglas	3,118	15,882	428	17	13	7,106.7	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,571	16,041	255	24	0	7,975.1	53.6	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,375	42,262	228	77	10	9,111.4	74.8	0.8%
Florence	399	1,458	24	12	0	9,025.1	271.4	3.0%
Fond du Lac	10,505	38,859	796	67	8	10,162.2	64.8	0.6%
Forest	858	3,666	59	22	2	9,344.4	239.6	2.6%
Grant	4,141	20,688	442	77	5	7,906.6	147.0	1.9%
Green	2,365	14,000	65	10	2	6,415.5	27.1	0.4%
Green Lake	1,400	6,757	354	10	3	7,334.5	52.4	0.7%
Iowa	1,678	9,763	75	7	1	7,050.7	29.4	0.4%
Iron	423	2,235	109	18	17	7,238.2	308.0	4.3%
Jackson	2,399	9,496	37	18	0	11,620.8	87.2	0.8%
Jefferson	6,732	31,649	639	57	4	7,950.4	67.3	0.8%
Juneau	2,500	13,424	57	10	0	9,290.9	37.2	0.4%
Kenosha	12,488	64,340	1,544	217	10	7,423.1	129.0	1.7%
Kewaunee	2,084	6,507	118	24	1	10,094.9	116.3	1.2%
La Crosse	10,229	45,610	494	56	0	8,644.2	47.3	0.5%
Lafayette	1,253	5,665	107	5	1	7,421.7	29.6	0.4%
Langlade	1,803	6,134	134	30	10	9,116.7	151.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,506	9,236	141	46	14	8,810.9	161.7	1.8%
Manitowoc	6,158	25,985	888	51	6	7,673.1	63.5	0.8%
Marathon	12,092	44,424	1,118	160	23	8,974.3	118.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,565	15,678	327	45	0	8,708.3	109.9	1.3%
Marquette	1,164	5,265	149	18	3	7,569.3	117.1	1.5%
Menominee	717	3,654	2	10	0	16,362.4	228.2	1.4%
Milwaukee	85,745	412,841	6,988	984	19	9,078.6	104.2	1.1%
Monroe	3,497	16,351	59	25	0	7,602.5	54.4	0.7%
Oconto	3,829	14,678	338	38	4	10,086.4	100.1	1.0%
Oneida	2,830	13,610	80	47	3	7,880.2	130.9	1.7%
Outagamie	16,335	71,618	1,458	159	2	8,887.4	86.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,398	34,819	769	51	4	7,240.8	57.7	0.8%
Pepin	681	2,668	19	5	0	9,266.6	68.0	0.7%
Pierce	2,964	14,506	672	30	5	7,119.0	72.1	1.0%
Polk	3,102	16,532	36	23	0	7,066.1	52.4	0.7%
Portage	5,610	23,394	373	52	3	7,932.8	73.5	0.9%
Price	956	4,831	71	5	0	6,923.5	36.2	0.5%
Racine	17,815	92,533	2,063	249	10	9,126.4	127.6	1.4%
Richland	1,110	7,930	31	13	0	6,266.9	73.4	1.2%
Rock	12,289	64,797	927	115	11	7,667.9	71.8	0.9%
Rusk	1,115	4,290	34	13	0	7,671.7	89.4	1.2%
Sauk	4,545	32,043	206	27	4	7,250.4	43.1	0.6%
Sawyer	1,251	7,199	25	11	0	7,550.2	66.4	0.9%
Shawano	4,202	15,102	406	57	10	10,184.2	138.1	1.4%
Sheboygan	11,424	40,545	516	94	3	9,976.0	82.1	0.8%
St. Croix	5,473	30,419	1,152	28	1	6,207.4	31.8	0.5%
Taylor	1,603	5,097	184	14	5	7,789.1	68.0	0.9%
Trempealeau	3,007	10,594	77	29	1	10,251.6	98.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,560	11,451	45	30	0	5,150.7	99.1	1.9%
Vilas	1,609	7,468	67	21	2	7,429.8	97.0	1.3%
Walworth	7,721	36,695	1,784	95	8	7,524.2	92.6	1.2%
Washburn	1,045	5,497	70	12	2	6,591.8	75.7	1.1%
Washington	11,808	46,086	1,482	97	5	8,780.1	72.1	0.8%
Waukesha	34,365	148,410	3,024	344	26	8,620.5	86.3	1.0%
Waupaca	4,169	17,403	655	98	35	8,059.0	189.4	2.4%
Waushara	1,927	9,793	155	17	1	7,930.7	70.0	0.9%
Winnebago	15,306	70,442	1,911	150	16	9,038.4	88.6	1.0%
Wood	5,746	26,639	358	48	10	7,762.1	64.8	0.8%