3,403 New COVID-19 Cases, 95 Deaths

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 3,403 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 8,508 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 16,804, well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 47,425, 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 35.43%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 31.14%. 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 1,102 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 20 from a day prior and an increase of 20 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,593.

DHS reported 216 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 21,796 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 715 in the past week.

DHS reported 95 new deaths. A total of 4,979 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 985 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 42, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 48.77.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 22nd 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 16,681.9 cases per 100,000 residents up from 16,590.6). Dodge County has recorded 11,761.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 11,748.2). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Crawford, Forest, Chippewa, Langlade, Calumet, Juneau and Florence are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,151.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,090).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,499.2 (up from 8,440.3). 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	1,320	6,809	141	11	2	6,440.6	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,022	6,066	54	16	0	6,442.7	100.9	1.6%
Barron	4,567	16,901	108	57	0	9,954.2	124.2	1.2%
Bayfield	940	5,870	33	18	0	6,182.6	118.4	1.9%
Brown	26,810	115,541	1,567	166	11	10,298.5	63.8	0.6%
Buffalo	1,023	4,456	26	7	0	7,572.7	51.8	0.7%
Burnett	1,009	5,336	113	21	0	6,532.0	135.9	2.1%
Calumet	4,751	17,926	359	35	2	9,229.5	68.0	0.7%
Chippewa	6,015	25,275	103	67	2	9,366.2	104.3	1.1%
Clark	2,859	9,343	322	51	4	8,229.5	146.8	1.8%
Columbia	4,307	24,157	307	32	6	7,539.2	56.0	0.7%
Crawford	1,564	6,741	45	12	0	9,447.3	72.5	0.8%
Dane	34,142	296,167	1,200	190	18	6,460.2	36.0	0.6%
Dodge	10,492	36,873	629	126	17	11,761.7	141.2	1.2%
Door	2,072	12,384	168	14	2	7,386.5	49.9	0.7%
Douglas	3,170	16,000	444	17	13	7,225.2	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,595	16,095	256	24	0	8,028.7	53.6	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,464	42,460	234	80	10	9,197.9	77.8	0.8%
Florence	405	1,460	26	12	0	9,160.8	271.4	3.0%
Fond du Lac	10,652	38,952	806	69	8	10,304.4	66.7	0.6%
Forest	867	3,675	62	22	2	9,442.4	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,174	20,724	446	77	5	7,969.6	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,373	14,061	65	11	2	6,437.2	29.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,407	6,771	360	10	3	7,371.1	52.4	0.7%
Iowa	1,699	9,802	76	8	1	7,139.0	33.6	0.5%
Iron	423	2,238	110	18	17	7,238.2	308.0	4.3%
Jackson	2,415	9,508	37	18	0	11,698.3	87.2	0.7%
Jefferson	6,778	31,744	643	57	4	8,004.7	67.3	0.8%
Juneau	2,533	13,430	62	10	0	9,413.6	37.2	0.4%
Kenosha	12,656	64,584	1,535	226	9	7,523.0	134.3	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,109	6,525	120	24	1	10,216.0	116.3	1.1%
La Crosse	10,386	45,824	510	59	0	8,776.9	49.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,254	5,687	109	5	1	7,427.6	29.6	0.4%
Langlade	1,816	6,156	135	30	10	9,182.4	151.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,530	9,269	156	49	14	8,895.3	172.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,195	26,062	909	51	6	7,719.2	63.5	0.8%
Marathon	12,201	44,622	1,128	160	23	9,055.2	118.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,584	15,732	336	48	0	8,754.7	117.3	1.3%
Marquette	1,169	5,293	150	18	3	7,601.8	117.1	1.5%
Menominee	731	3,671	2	10	0	16,681.9	228.2	1.4%
Milwaukee	86,434	413,914	7,075	988	20	9,151.5	104.6	1.1%
Monroe	3,549	16,402	59	25	0	7,715.6	54.4	0.7%
Oconto	3,850	14,706	341	40	4	10,141.7	105.4	1.0%
Oneida	2,857	13,639	86	47	3	7,955.3	130.9	1.6%
Outagamie	16,451	71,880	1,506	161	2	8,950.5	87.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,465	34,962	775	54	4	7,316.7	61.1	0.8%
Pepin	686	2,678	19	5	0	9,334.6	68.0	0.7%
Pierce	2,993	14,554	676	30	5	7,188.7	72.1	1.0%
Polk	3,127	16,569	37	23	0	7,123.0	52.4	0.7%
Portage	5,656	23,478	384	53	3	7,997.9	74.9	0.9%
Price	965	4,845	71	5	0	6,988.7	36.2	0.5%
Racine	18,068	92,612	2,116	256	11	9,256.0	131.1	1.4%
Richland	1,120	7,929	31	13	0	6,323.4	73.4	1.2%
Rock	12,427	65,027	984	118	9	7,754.0	73.6	0.9%
Rusk	1,121	4,306	34	13	0	7,712.9	89.4	1.2%
Sauk	4,573	32,052	209	29	4	7,295.1	46.3	0.6%
Sawyer	1,255	7,219	29	12	0	7,574.4	72.4	1.0%
Shawano	4,236	15,165	416	59	10	10,266.6	143.0	1.4%
Sheboygan	11,514	40,640	529	94	3	10,054.6	82.1	0.8%
St. Croix	5,520	30,625	1,164	28	1	6,260.7	31.8	0.5%
Taylor	1,606	5,110	185	14	5	7,803.7	68.0	0.9%
Trempealeau	3,037	10,637	77	30	1	10,353.9	102.3	1.0%
Vernon	1,568	11,453	45	30	0	5,177.1	99.1	1.9%
Vilas	1,633	7,487	67	21	2	7,540.6	97.0	1.3%
Walworth	7,839	36,767	1,832	99	8	7,639.2	96.5	1.3%
Washburn	1,051	5,515	70	13	2	6,629.7	82.0	1.2%
Washington	11,925	46,373	1,496	100	5	8,867.1	74.4	0.8%
Waukesha	35,046	149,070	3,187	358	26	8,791.3	89.8	1.0%
Waupaca	4,194	17,459	690	98	36	8,107.3	189.4	2.3%
Waushara	1,930	9,813	161	19	1	7,943.0	78.2	1.0%
Winnebago	15,378	70,657	1,940	155	16	9,080.9	91.5	1.0%
Wood	5,788	26,752	366	53	10	7,818.9	71.6	0.9%