3,791 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 3,791 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 10,148 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 17,436, well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 50,177, 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 34.75%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 32.85%. 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 1,077 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 51 from a day prior, but an increase of 31 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,556.

DHS reported 99 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 22,070 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 720 in the past week.

DHS reported 40 new deaths. A total of 5,079 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 993 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 42.43, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 49.8.

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 16,910.1 cases per 100,000 residents up from 16,773.2). Dodge County has recorded 11,880.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 11,822.2). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Crawford, Forest, Chippewa, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,289.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,226.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,623.7 (up from 8,558.1). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 538.9 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	1,356	6,880	142	11	2	6,616.2	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,036	6,102	55	16	0	6,530.9	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,629	17,012	111	58	0	10,089.4	126.4	1.3%
Bayfield	951	5,912	32	18	0	6,254.9	118.4	1.9%
Brown	27,148	116,164	1,628	167	11	10,428.3	64.1	0.6%
Buffalo	1,054	4,501	27	7	0	7,802.2	51.8	0.7%
Burnett	1,020	5,361	113	21	0	6,603.2	135.9	2.1%
Calumet	4,809	18,038	368	36	2	9,342.2	69.9	0.7%
Chippewa	6,093	25,432	115	67	2	9,487.7	104.3	1.1%
Clark	2,886	9,403	327	53	4	8,307.2	152.6	1.8%
Columbia	4,381	24,287	316	33	6	7,668.7	57.8	0.8%
Crawford	1,578	6,786	47	13	0	9,531.9	78.5	0.8%
Dane	34,723	297,069	1,254	203	19	6,570.2	38.4	0.6%
Dodge	10,598	37,094	634	126	17	11,880.5	141.2	1.2%
Door	2,134	12,487	170	15	2	7,607.6	53.5	0.7%
Douglas	3,209	16,085	463	17	13	7,314.1	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,652	16,195	279	24	0	8,156.0	53.6	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,630	42,738	240	83	10	9,359.2	80.7	0.9%
Florence	407	1,464	26	12	0	9,206.1	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	10,767	39,169	837	70	8	10,415.7	67.7	0.7%
Forest	879	3,708	62	22	3	9,573.1	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,227	20,767	484	77	5	8,070.8	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,405	14,173	66	11	2	6,524.0	29.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,415	6,804	367	10	3	7,413.0	52.4	0.7%
Iowa	1,714	9,856	77	8	1	7,202.0	33.6	0.5%
Iron	427	2,251	111	18	17	7,306.6	308.0	4.2%
Jackson	2,439	9,533	37	18	0	11,814.6	87.2	0.7%
Jefferson	6,860	31,914	680	59	5	8,101.6	69.7	0.9%
Juneau	2,590	13,495	66	10	0	9,625.4	37.2	0.4%
Kenosha	12,849	64,843	1,551	232	10	7,637.7	137.9	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,139	6,535	122	24	1	10,361.4	116.3	1.1%
La Crosse	10,545	46,117	519	63	0	8,911.3	53.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,264	5,712	113	5	1	7,486.8	29.6	0.4%
Langlade	1,830	6,181	138	30	10	9,253.2	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,569	9,327	171	49	14	9,032.4	172.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,300	26,266	942	51	6	7,850.1	63.5	0.8%
Marathon	12,349	44,922	1,160	161	24	9,165.0	119.5	1.3%
Marinette	3,621	15,803	342	51	0	8,845.1	124.6	1.4%
Marquette	1,188	5,335	150	18	3	7,725.3	117.1	1.5%
Menominee	741	3,681	2	10	0	16,910.1	228.2	1.3%
Milwaukee	87,736	416,275	7,262	993	20	9,289.4	105.1	1.1%
Monroe	3,621	16,501	61	25	0	7,872.1	54.4	0.7%
Oconto	3,900	14,785	357	41	4	10,273.4	108.0	1.1%
Oneida	2,878	13,712	94	47	4	8,013.8	130.9	1.6%
Outagamie	16,679	72,358	1,567	164	2	9,074.5	89.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,595	35,255	798	58	4	7,463.8	65.6	0.9%
Pepin	697	2,690	19	6	0	9,484.3	81.6	0.9%
Pierce	3,054	14,645	685	30	5	7,335.2	72.1	1.0%
Polk	3,187	16,658	40	25	0	7,259.7	56.9	0.8%
Portage	5,736	23,661	398	53	3	8,111.0	74.9	0.9%
Price	970	4,870	73	5	0	7,024.9	36.2	0.5%
Racine	18,319	92,906	2,183	266	12	9,384.6	136.3	1.5%
Richland	1,148	7,952	32	13	0	6,481.5	73.4	1.1%
Rock	12,573	65,460	1,061	119	9	7,845.1	74.3	0.9%
Rusk	1,143	4,320	34	14	0	7,864.3	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,626	32,194	211	31	5	7,379.6	49.5	0.7%
Sawyer	1,273	7,272	33	14	0	7,683.0	84.5	1.1%
Shawano	4,275	15,239	436	59	10	10,361.1	143.0	1.4%
Sheboygan	11,665	40,930	531	96	3	10,186.4	83.8	0.8%
St. Croix	5,608	30,805	1,221	28	1	6,360.5	31.8	0.5%
Taylor	1,626	5,133	186	14	5	7,900.9	68.0	0.9%
Trempealeau	3,074	10,714	80	30	1	10,480.0	102.3	1.0%
Vernon	1,607	11,510	48	30	0	5,305.9	99.1	1.9%
Vilas	1,667	7,530	75	21	2	7,697.6	97.0	1.3%
Walworth	7,945	36,996	1,895	104	9	7,742.5	101.3	1.3%
Washburn	1,070	5,566	73	15	2	6,749.5	94.6	1.4%
Washington	12,194	46,709	1,534	102	5	9,067.1	75.8	0.8%
Waukesha	35,778	150,045	3,329	369	27	8,975.0	92.6	1.0%
Waupaca	4,233	17,543	713	99	37	8,182.7	191.4	2.3%
Waushara	1,938	9,850	172	19	1	7,976.0	78.2	1.0%
Winnebago	15,471	70,990	2,048	158	16	9,135.8	93.3	1.0%
Wood	5,840	26,934	377	54	10	7,889.1	72.9	0.9%