Under 1,000 People Actively Hospitalized With COVID-19

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,832 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 7,462 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 20,359, well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 58,920, 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 34.55%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 34.32%. 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 999 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of three from a day prior and 70 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,448.

DHS reported 52 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 22,379 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 849 in the past week.

DHS reported two new deaths. A total of 5,157 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 995 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 38.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 51.13.

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 17,092.7 cases per 100,000 residents (no change). Dodge County has recorded 11,994.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 11,967.9). 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, 9,416.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,385.9).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,768.1 (up from 8,736.4). 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	1,382	6,950	143	11	2	6,743.1	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,054	6,167	59	16	0	6,644.4	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,724	17,167	113	58	0	10,296.4	126.4	1.2%
Bayfield	967	5,976	32	18	0	6,360.2	118.4	1.9%
Brown	27,535	116,940	1,740	168	11	10,577.0	64.5	0.6%
Buffalo	1,086	4,547	28	7	0	8,039.1	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,033	5,403	114	21	0	6,687.4	135.9	2.0%
Calumet	4,900	18,226	394	37	2	9,519.0	71.9	0.8%
Chippewa	6,264	25,622	115	70	2	9,754.0	109.0	1.1%
Clark	2,917	9,456	334	54	4	8,396.4	155.4	1.9%
Columbia	4,459	24,441	326	33	6	7,805.3	57.8	0.7%
Crawford	1,594	6,832	46	13	0	9,628.5	78.5	0.8%
Dane	35,391	298,787	1,337	211	19	6,696.6	39.9	0.6%
Dodge	10,700	37,334	660	126	17	11,994.8	141.2	1.2%
Door	2,168	12,579	170	15	2	7,728.8	53.5	0.7%
Douglas	3,263	16,208	481	17	13	7,437.2	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,712	16,340	290	25	0	8,290.0	55.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,789	43,265	254	87	10	9,513.8	84.6	0.9%
Florence	408	1,480	26	12	0	9,228.7	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	10,961	39,592	850	71	8	10,603.3	68.7	0.6%
Forest	886	3,740	63	22	3	9,649.3	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,260	20,881	511	77	6	8,133.8	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,455	14,303	68	10	4	6,659.6	27.1	0.4%
Green Lake	1,425	6,844	374	14	3	7,465.4	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,728	9,883	81	8	1	7,260.8	33.6	0.5%
Iron	434	2,265	110	18	17	7,426.4	308.0	4.1%
Jackson	2,467	9,569	38	18	0	11,950.2	87.2	0.7%
Jefferson	7,033	32,149	717	60	5	8,305.9	70.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,675	13,591	70	11	1	9,941.3	40.9	0.4%
Kenosha	13,104	65,288	1,608	241	11	7,789.3	143.3	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,172	6,583	128	24	1	10,521.2	116.3	1.1%
La Crosse	10,717	46,480	517	63	0	9,056.6	53.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,290	5,760	116	5	1	7,640.8	29.6	0.4%
Langlade	1,840	6,222	140	30	10	9,303.7	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,643	9,435	176	49	14	9,292.6	172.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,461	26,473	952	55	8	8,050.7	68.5	0.9%
Marathon	12,527	45,377	1,171	161	24	9,297.1	119.5	1.3%
Marinette	3,682	15,983	349	51	0	8,994.1	124.6	1.4%
Marquette	1,195	5,399	155	20	4	7,770.8	130.1	1.7%
Menominee	749	3,691	2	10	0	17,092.7	228.2	1.3%
Milwaukee	88,939	419,071	7,442	995	20	9,416.7	105.3	1.1%
Monroe	3,694	16,636	69	25	0	8,030.8	54.4	0.7%
Oconto	3,968	15,076	358	41	4	10,452.6	108.0	1.0%
Oneida	2,944	13,729	105	47	4	8,197.6	130.9	1.6%
Outagamie	17,097	73,136	1,696	164	2	9,302.0	89.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,713	35,559	807	58	4	7,597.3	65.6	0.9%
Pepin	721	2,714	19	6	0	9,810.9	81.6	0.8%
Pierce	3,111	14,764	712	30	5	7,472.1	72.1	1.0%
Polk	3,269	16,805	41	29	0	7,446.5	66.1	0.9%
Portage	5,809	23,863	420	54	3	8,214.2	76.4	0.9%
Price	981	4,900	73	6	0	7,104.6	43.5	0.6%
Racine	18,597	93,448	2,229	268	14	9,527.0	137.3	1.4%
Richland	1,169	7,985	33	13	0	6,600.0	73.4	1.1%
Rock	12,797	66,046	1,122	122	9	7,984.9	76.1	1.0%
Rusk	1,158	4,359	35	14	0	7,967.5	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,742	32,386	218	31	5	7,564.7	49.5	0.7%
Sawyer	1,293	7,332	27	17	0	7,803.7	102.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,315	15,402	444	60	11	10,458.1	145.4	1.4%
Sheboygan	11,842	41,305	549	96	3	10,341.0	83.8	0.8%
St. Croix	5,688	31,128	1,257	32	2	6,451.2	36.3	0.6%
Taylor	1,649	5,174	189	14	5	8,012.6	68.0	0.8%
Trempealeau	3,113	10,783	79	30	1	10,613.0	102.3	1.0%
Vernon	1,631	11,566	51	32	0	5,385.1	105.7	2.0%
Vilas	1,718	7,613	76	27	2	7,933.1	124.7	1.6%
Walworth	8,093	37,179	1,972	105	9	7,886.8	102.3	1.3%
Washburn	1,097	5,627	80	15	2	6,919.8	94.6	1.4%
Washington	12,402	47,060	1,548	103	5	9,221.8	76.6	0.8%
Waukesha	36,362	151,519	3,421	373	30	9,121.5	93.6	1.0%
Waupaca	4,314	17,716	744	100	37	8,339.3	193.3	2.3%
Waushara	1,963	9,915	181	20	1	8,078.9	82.3	1.0%
Winnebago	15,698	71,524	2,135	159	16	9,269.9	93.9	1.0%
Wood	5,953	27,188	380	54	10	8,041.8	72.9	0.9%