502,012 Wisconsin Residents Have Tested Positive for COVID-19

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 3,474 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 10,602 processed tests.

A total of 502,012 Wisconsin residents have now tested positive for the virus at some point during the pandemic. The figure undercounts the total number of cases because of limitations of testing supplies early in the outbreak and individuals that never seek medical treatment.

Combined with negative tests, since the pandemic began less than 50% of state residents have been tested at least once.

The seven-day case total stands at 19,005, well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 52,486, 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 36.21%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 34.17%. 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 1,054 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 23 from a day prior, but an increase of 44 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,535.

DHS reported 136 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 22,206 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 806 in the past week.

DHS reported 40 new deaths. A total of 5,119 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 41.07, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 51.93.

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 17,047 cases per 100,000 residents up from 16,910.1). Dodge County has recorded 11,824.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 11,880.5). 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, 9,343.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,289.4).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,683.7 (up from 8,623.7). 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	1,371	6,898	144	11	2	6,689.4	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,044	6,146	55	16	0	6,581.4	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,679	17,092	110	58	0	10,198.3	126.4	1.2%
Bayfield	956	5,937	32	18	0	6,287.8	118.4	1.9%
Brown	27,311	116,449	1,651	168	11	10,491.0	64.5	0.6%
Buffalo	1,064	4,513	28	7	0	7,876.2	51.8	0.7%
Burnett	1,024	5,375	113	21	0	6,629.1	135.9	2.1%
Calumet	4,847	18,102	373	36	2	9,416.0	69.9	0.7%
Chippewa	6,176	25,499	117	67	2	9,616.9	104.3	1.1%
Clark	2,907	9,419	329	54	4	8,367.6	155.4	1.9%
Columbia	4,410	24,328	324	33	6	7,719.5	57.8	0.7%
Crawford	1,587	6,798	47	13	0	9,586.2	78.5	0.8%
Dane	35,008	297,654	1,317	203	19	6,624.1	38.4	0.6%
Dodge	10,637	37,207	651	126	17	11,924.2	141.2	1.2%
Door	2,144	12,532	169	15	2	7,643.2	53.5	0.7%
Douglas	3,231	16,119	474	17	13	7,364.3	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,688	16,249	285	25	0	8,236.4	55.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,682	42,852	259	84	10	9,409.8	81.6	0.9%
Florence	408	1,466	26	12	0	9,228.7	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	10,822	39,281	835	71	8	10,468.9	68.7	0.7%
Forest	886	3,717	61	22	3	9,649.3	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,238	20,807	495	77	5	8,091.8	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,423	14,233	66	10	4	6,572.8	27.1	0.4%
Green Lake	1,420	6,829	369	13	3	7,439.2	68.1	0.9%
Iowa	1,719	9,853	77	8	1	7,223.0	33.6	0.5%
Iron	433	2,257	111	18	17	7,409.3	308.0	4.2%
Jackson	2,445	9,553	38	18	0	11,843.6	87.2	0.7%
Jefferson	6,968	31,967	693	60	5	8,229.1	70.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,631	13,525	66	11	1	9,777.8	40.9	0.4%
Kenosha	12,931	65,022	1,573	237	11	7,686.5	140.9	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,156	6,558	126	24	1	10,443.7	116.3	1.1%
La Crosse	10,593	46,291	519	63	0	8,951.9	53.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,270	5,727	114	5	1	7,522.4	29.6	0.4%
Langlade	1,833	6,199	139	30	10	9,268.3	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,592	9,383	172	49	14	9,113.3	172.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,368	26,348	948	54	8	7,934.8	67.3	0.8%
Marathon	12,404	45,099	1,158	161	24	9,205.8	119.5	1.3%
Marinette	3,633	15,834	344	51	0	8,874.4	124.6	1.4%
Marquette	1,190	5,348	152	20	4	7,738.3	130.1	1.7%
Menominee	747	3,687	2	10	0	17,047.0	228.2	1.3%
Milwaukee	88,244	417,454	7,350	993	20	9,343.1	105.1	1.1%
Monroe	3,645	16,550	63	25	0	7,924.3	54.4	0.7%
Oconto	3,920	14,856	354	41	4	10,326.1	108.0	1.0%
Oneida	2,909	13,708	104	47	4	8,100.1	130.9	1.6%
Outagamie	16,854	72,736	1,616	164	2	9,169.7	89.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,623	35,392	801	58	4	7,495.5	65.6	0.9%
Pepin	705	2,693	19	6	0	9,593.1	81.6	0.9%
Pierce	3,066	14,682	702	30	5	7,364.0	72.1	1.0%
Polk	3,238	16,736	40	29	0	7,375.9	66.1	0.9%
Portage	5,757	23,744	409	54	3	8,140.7	76.4	0.9%
Price	975	4,878	72	6	0	7,061.1	43.5	0.6%
Racine	18,438	93,134	2,213	266	12	9,445.6	136.3	1.4%
Richland	1,153	7,952	34	13	0	6,509.7	73.4	1.1%
Rock	12,670	65,678	1,100	122	9	7,905.7	76.1	1.0%
Rusk	1,147	4,338	35	14	0	7,891.8	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,677	32,250	216	31	5	7,461.0	49.5	0.7%
Sawyer	1,280	7,304	33	16	0	7,725.3	96.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,294	15,338	441	58	11	10,407.2	140.6	1.4%
Sheboygan	11,796	41,140	548	96	3	10,300.8	83.8	0.8%
St. Croix	5,640	30,962	1,235	32	2	6,396.8	36.3	0.6%
Taylor	1,635	5,147	186	14	5	7,944.6	68.0	0.9%
Trempealeau	3,083	10,736	80	30	1	10,510.7	102.3	1.0%
Vernon	1,613	11,524	48	31	0	5,325.7	102.4	1.9%
Vilas	1,679	7,563	78	21	2	7,753.0	97.0	1.3%
Walworth	8,018	37,041	1,934	105	9	7,813.7	102.3	1.3%
Washburn	1,082	5,589	78	15	2	6,825.2	94.6	1.4%
Washington	12,262	46,844	1,541	102	5	9,117.7	75.8	0.8%
Waukesha	36,041	150,647	3,379	372	30	9,040.9	93.3	1.0%
Waupaca	4,269	17,648	714	100	37	8,252.3	193.3	2.3%
Waushara	1,946	9,882	173	19	1	8,008.9	78.2	1.0%
Winnebago	15,601	71,225	2,070	159	16	9,212.6	93.9	1.0%
Wood	5,876	27,014	378	54	10	7,937.8	72.9	0.9%