2,712 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 2,712 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 9,699 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 17,444, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 56,894, 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 31.21%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 32.88%. 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 998 were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 27 from a day prior and 79 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,461.

DHS reported 99 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 22,804 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 734 in the past week.

DHS reported 42 new deaths. A total of 5,290 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,010 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 38.93, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 49.5.

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 17,435 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,343.7). Dodge County has recorded 12,143.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,119.3). 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, 9,592.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,542.4).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,925.4 (up from 8,878.5). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 622.3 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	1,414	7,021	146	11	2	6,899.2	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,073	6,210	65	16	0	6,764.2	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,805	17,313	115	61	0	10,473.0	133.0	1.3%
Bayfield	987	6,047	39	18	0	6,491.7	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,024	117,877	1,826	172	11	10,764.8	66.1	0.6%
Buffalo	1,140	4,615	28	7	0	8,438.8	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,052	5,468	115	23	0	6,810.4	148.9	2.2%
Calumet	4,965	18,394	415	38	2	9,645.3	73.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,429	25,852	124	72	2	10,010.9	112.1	1.1%
Clark	2,957	9,533	341	54	4	8,511.6	155.4	1.8%
Columbia	4,536	24,615	339	35	6	7,940.1	61.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,612	6,884	47	13	0	9,737.2	78.5	0.8%
Dane	35,987	300,080	1,377	218	19	6,809.3	41.2	0.6%
Dodge	10,833	37,596	666	129	17	12,143.9	144.6	1.2%
Door	2,243	12,731	176	16	3	7,996.1	57.0	0.7%
Douglas	3,320	16,414	511	17	13	7,567.1	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,794	16,492	302	25	0	8,473.1	55.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	9,981	43,753	257	90	11	9,700.4	87.5	0.9%
Florence	411	1,489	30	12	0	9,296.5	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,106	39,899	883	70	9	10,743.6	67.7	0.6%
Forest	893	3,779	65	22	3	9,725.5	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,301	21,018	543	77	5	8,212.1	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,506	14,469	72	10	4	6,798.0	27.1	0.4%
Green Lake	1,430	6,902	380	14	3	7,491.6	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,746	9,962	82	8	1	7,336.4	33.6	0.5%
Iron	440	2,283	110	19	17	7,529.1	325.1	4.3%
Jackson	2,483	9,568	39	19	0	12,027.7	92.0	0.8%
Jefferson	7,152	32,416	753	61	5	8,446.4	72.0	0.9%
Juneau	2,726	13,673	72	11	1	10,130.8	40.9	0.4%
Kenosha	13,514	65,860	1,711	246	11	8,033.0	146.2	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,208	6,633	135	25	1	10,695.6	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	10,927	47,025	567	64	0	9,234.1	54.1	0.6%
Lafayette	1,304	5,816	117	6	1	7,723.7	35.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,863	6,287	141	30	11	9,420.0	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,670	9,521	178	50	14	9,387.5	175.8	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,560	26,732	971	55	10	8,174.0	68.5	0.8%
Marathon	12,717	45,716	1,212	166	27	9,438.1	123.2	1.3%
Marinette	3,738	16,146	353	53	0	9,130.9	129.5	1.4%
Marquette	1,205	5,454	157	20	5	7,835.9	130.1	1.7%
Menominee	764	3,689	2	11	0	17,435.0	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	90,601	422,823	7,698	1,010	20	9,592.7	106.9	1.1%
Monroe	3,770	16,784	72	27	0	8,196.0	58.7	0.7%
Oconto	4,026	15,205	371	42	4	10,605.3	110.6	1.0%
Oneida	2,991	13,665	123	49	4	8,328.5	136.4	1.6%
Outagamie	17,412	73,955	1,816	166	5	9,473.3	90.3	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,912	36,060	818	60	4	7,822.5	67.9	0.9%
Pepin	743	2,757	19	6	0	10,110.2	81.6	0.8%
Pierce	3,160	14,891	730	30	5	7,589.8	72.1	0.9%
Polk	3,341	16,977	45	29	0	7,610.5	66.1	0.9%
Portage	5,872	24,064	422	57	3	8,303.3	80.6	1.0%
Price	996	4,941	74	6	0	7,213.2	43.5	0.6%
Racine	18,894	93,844	2,327	275	15	9,679.2	140.9	1.5%
Richland	1,178	8,003	34	13	0	6,650.9	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,041	66,582	1,200	127	9	8,137.1	79.2	1.0%
Rusk	1,180	4,418	37	14	1	8,118.9	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,813	32,587	223	31	6	7,678.0	49.5	0.6%
Sawyer	1,306	7,412	30	17	0	7,882.2	102.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,352	15,537	457	63	11	10,547.7	152.7	1.4%
Sheboygan	12,019	41,741	585	106	4	10,495.6	92.6	0.9%
St. Croix	5,766	31,371	1,314	33	2	6,539.7	37.4	0.6%
Taylor	1,682	5,237	202	14	7	8,173.0	68.0	0.8%
Trempealeau	3,152	10,879	81	32	1	10,745.9	109.1	1.0%
Vernon	1,647	11,667	54	32	1	5,438.0	105.7	1.9%
Vilas	1,770	7,685	86	31	2	8,173.3	143.1	1.8%
Walworth	8,267	37,526	2,057	107	10	8,056.3	104.3	1.3%
Washburn	1,128	5,698	74	15	2	7,115.4	94.6	1.3%
Washington	12,684	47,610	1,588	106	5	9,431.5	78.8	0.8%
Waukesha	37,178	153,319	3,586	379	31	9,326.2	95.1	1.0%
Waupaca	4,367	17,886	784	102	38	8,441.7	197.2	2.3%
Waushara	1,985	9,974	200	23	1	8,169.4	94.7	1.2%
Winnebago	15,895	72,082	2,222	163	18	9,386.2	96.3	1.0%
Wood	6,038	27,448	387	61	11	8,156.6	82.4	1.0%