Record 128 COVID-19 Deaths

Wisconsin set a new single-day record for reported COVID-19 deaths on Saturday. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 128 deaths. It eclipses a record 120 reported on December 22nd.

Each of the past three record figures had been reported on a Tuesday, reflecting data largely from the day prior and indicative of a weekend catchup. In each of the past three record-setting days, the total number of deaths reported the day before was in the single digits.

Saturday’s report broke the mold. DHS has reported at least 32 deaths in each of the prior four days.

But, the 30-day average daily death total is still well short of its December 23rd record of 53.43 deaths per day. It now stands at 39.83.

DHS reported 1,937 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 7,032 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 15,130, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 51,750, 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 29.24%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 33.49%. 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 911 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 42 from a day prior and 91 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,363.

DHS reported 103 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,026 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 700 in the past week.

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 17,571.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,549.1). Dodge County has recorded 12,217.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,187.7). 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, 9,663.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,637.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 8,998.2 (up from 8,964.7). 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	1,424	7,060	149	11	2	6,948.0	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,079	6,245	66	16	0	6,802.0	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,861	17,391	119	64	0	10,595.0	139.5	1.3%
Bayfield	995	6,071	49	18	0	6,544.3	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,224	118,312	1,888	178	11	10,841.7	68.4	0.6%
Buffalo	1,171	4,632	28	7	0	8,668.3	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,057	5,488	116	23	0	6,842.8	148.9	2.2%
Calumet	5,023	18,489	428	38	2	9,757.9	73.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,484	26,007	136	72	2	10,096.5	112.1	1.1%
Clark	2,981	9,557	342	54	4	8,580.6	155.4	1.8%
Columbia	4,576	24,682	345	37	6	8,010.1	64.8	0.8%
Crawford	1,616	6,901	46	13	0	9,761.4	78.5	0.8%
Dane	36,297	301,630	1,431	218	19	6,868.0	41.2	0.6%
Dodge	10,899	37,742	673	129	17	12,217.9	144.6	1.2%
Door	2,269	12,780	180	16	4	8,088.8	57.0	0.7%
Douglas	3,361	16,495	523	17	13	7,660.6	38.7	0.5%
Dunn	3,822	16,571	308	25	0	8,535.6	55.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,059	43,951	264	92	11	9,776.2	89.4	0.9%
Florence	411	1,490	33	12	0	9,296.5	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,160	40,145	890	73	9	10,795.9	70.6	0.7%
Forest	893	3,790	66	22	3	9,725.5	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,325	21,074	550	77	5	8,257.9	147.0	1.8%
Green	2,535	14,554	79	10	4	6,876.6	27.1	0.4%
Green Lake	1,441	6,960	381	14	3	7,549.2	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,757	9,998	83	8	1	7,382.7	33.6	0.5%
Iron	445	2,302	111	19	17	7,614.6	325.1	4.3%
Jackson	2,489	9,551	38	20	0	12,056.8	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,208	32,538	777	63	5	8,512.5	74.4	0.9%
Juneau	2,768	13,715	71	13	1	10,286.9	48.3	0.5%
Kenosha	13,640	66,145	1,752	248	11	8,107.9	147.4	1.8%
Kewaunee	2,235	6,666	138	26	1	10,826.4	125.9	1.2%
La Crosse	11,005	47,248	578	67	0	9,300.0	56.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,324	5,841	121	7	1	7,842.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,868	6,308	142	30	11	9,445.3	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,698	9,587	182	51	14	9,486.0	179.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,643	26,880	986	57	11	8,277.5	71.0	0.9%
Marathon	12,833	45,784	1,225	167	27	9,524.2	123.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,781	16,245	356	55	0	9,235.9	134.3	1.5%
Marquette	1,211	5,461	158	20	5	7,874.9	130.1	1.7%
Menominee	770	3,696	2	11	0	17,571.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	91,270	424,617	7,882	1,082	21	9,663.5	114.6	1.2%
Monroe	3,828	16,867	74	27	0	8,322.1	58.7	0.7%
Oconto	4,045	15,264	390	43	5	10,655.4	113.3	1.1%
Oneida	3,008	13,651	123	49	4	8,375.8	136.4	1.6%
Outagamie	17,573	74,431	1,852	169	6	9,560.9	91.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	6,990	36,269	831	63	6	7,910.8	71.3	0.9%
Pepin	751	2,774	19	6	0	10,219.1	81.6	0.8%
Pierce	3,178	14,966	746	32	5	7,633.0	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,376	17,077	45	30	0	7,690.2	68.3	0.9%
Portage	5,899	24,148	427	57	3	8,341.5	80.6	1.0%
Price	1,004	4,963	78	6	0	7,271.1	43.5	0.6%
Racine	19,046	93,983	2,352	276	17	9,757.0	141.4	1.4%
Richland	1,185	8,004	33	13	0	6,690.4	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,162	66,922	1,242	129	11	8,212.6	80.5	1.0%
Rusk	1,187	4,433	37	14	1	8,167.1	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,855	32,689	226	34	6	7,745.0	54.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,329	7,458	30	17	0	8,021.0	102.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,384	15,622	459	64	11	10,625.3	155.1	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,118	41,955	604	108	5	10,582.0	94.3	0.9%
St. Croix	5,818	31,510	1,346	35	2	6,598.7	39.7	0.6%
Taylor	1,693	5,261	202	19	7	8,226.4	92.3	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,178	10,940	83	33	1	10,834.6	112.5	1.0%
Vernon	1,654	11,728	56	32	2	5,461.1	105.7	1.9%
Vilas	1,799	7,739	91	31	2	8,307.2	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,301	37,670	2,095	114	12	8,089.5	111.1	1.4%
Washburn	1,148	5,714	69	15	2	7,241.5	94.6	1.3%
Washington	12,785	47,887	1,609	108	5	9,506.6	80.3	0.8%
Waukesha	37,509	154,199	3,612	392	32	9,409.2	98.3	1.0%
Waupaca	4,394	18,009	799	102	38	8,493.9	197.2	2.3%
Waushara	1,993	10,023	205	24	2	8,202.3	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,013	72,380	2,264	165	18	9,455.9	97.4	1.0%
Wood	6,077	27,591	396	63	11	8,209.3	85.1	1.0%