1,522 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,522 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 6,645 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 12,654, its lowest point since September 21st and well below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 48,303, the lowest total since May 23rd 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 26.2%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 29.79%. 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 834 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 31 from a day prior and 191 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,308.

DHS reported 119 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,363 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 658 in the past week.

DHS reported 50 new deaths. A total of 5,562 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,106 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 37.9, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 47.33.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 19th 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 17,663.2 cases per 100,000 residents. Dodge County has recorded 12,276.2 cases per 100,000 residents. Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Crawford, Chippewa, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,767.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,097.4. Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 539.3 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.

NOTE: We missed our daily report yesterday. We regret the inconvenience.

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	1,443	7,143	148	11	3	7,040.7	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,101	6,296	64	16	0	6,940.7	100.9	1.5%
Barron	4,929	17,540	121	66	0	10,743.2	143.9	1.3%
Bayfield	1,005	6,133	53	18	0	6,610.1	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,481	119,127	1,960	180	14	10,940.4	69.1	0.6%
Buffalo	1,199	4,692	26	7	0	8,875.6	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,067	5,527	116	23	0	6,907.5	148.9	2.2%
Calumet	5,061	18,640	438	39	2	9,831.8	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,560	26,237	143	74	2	10,214.9	115.2	1.1%
Clark	3,018	9,643	350	55	4	8,687.1	158.3	1.8%
Columbia	4,664	24,983	354	38	6	8,164.1	66.5	0.8%
Crawford	1,621	6,923	46	14	0	9,791.6	84.6	0.9%
Dane	36,589	303,293	1,476	228	20	6,923.2	43.1	0.6%
Dodge	10,951	37,925	687	133	17	12,276.2	149.1	1.2%
Door	2,303	12,864	184	16	4	8,210.0	57.0	0.7%
Douglas	3,443	16,773	537	18	13	7,847.5	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,876	16,696	313	25	0	8,656.2	55.8	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,177	44,372	283	92	11	9,890.9	89.4	0.9%
Florence	417	1,501	31	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,297	40,436	898	74	9	10,928.4	71.6	0.7%
Forest	894	3,818	66	22	3	9,736.4	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,364	21,291	572	78	5	8,332.4	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,569	14,708	80	11	4	6,968.9	29.8	0.4%
Green Lake	1,454	6,993	392	14	3	7,617.4	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,768	10,081	85	9	1	7,428.9	37.8	0.5%
Iron	451	2,314	112	19	17	7,717.3	325.1	4.2%
Jackson	2,507	9,481	38	20	0	12,144.0	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,307	32,786	793	64	5	8,629.5	75.6	0.9%
Juneau	2,805	13,755	79	15	1	10,424.4	55.7	0.5%
Kenosha	13,820	66,651	1,799	256	11	8,214.9	152.2	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,264	6,714	143	26	1	10,966.9	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,163	47,693	594	68	0	9,433.5	57.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,333	5,882	133	7	1	7,895.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,873	6,365	143	30	11	9,470.6	151.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,723	9,653	182	52	14	9,573.9	182.8	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,726	27,170	1,003	57	13	8,380.9	71.0	0.8%
Marathon	12,970	45,964	1,263	167	30	9,625.9	123.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,815	16,364	362	56	0	9,319.0	136.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,232	5,539	158	20	5	8,011.4	130.1	1.6%
Menominee	774	3,689	2	11	0	17,663.2	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	92,249	427,758	8,041	1,106	21	9,767.2	117.1	1.2%
Monroe	3,882	16,998	77	28	1	8,439.5	60.9	0.7%
Oconto	4,070	15,365	396	44	6	10,721.2	115.9	1.1%
Oneida	3,038	13,640	124	53	4	8,459.3	147.6	1.7%
Outagamie	17,789	75,099	1,948	170	6	9,678.5	92.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,093	36,666	837	65	6	8,027.4	73.6	0.9%
Pepin	758	2,797	19	7	0	10,314.3	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,204	15,080	758	32	5	7,695.4	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,426	17,187	47	37	0	7,804.1	84.3	1.1%
Portage	5,968	24,358	435	57	3	8,439.0	80.6	1.0%
Price	1,035	5,010	79	7	0	7,495.7	50.7	0.7%
Racine	19,244	94,301	2,387	280	19	9,858.5	143.4	1.5%
Richland	1,185	8,028	33	13	0	6,690.4	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,335	67,361	1,307	131	12	8,320.6	81.7	1.0%
Rusk	1,202	4,478	37	14	1	8,270.3	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,898	32,850	225	35	6	7,813.5	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,349	7,515	30	17	0	8,141.7	102.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,421	15,748	468	64	11	10,715.0	155.1	1.4%
Sheboygan	12,233	42,342	617	109	5	10,682.4	95.2	0.9%
St. Croix	5,903	31,769	1,380	36	2	6,695.1	40.8	0.6%
Taylor	1,714	5,313	206	19	7	8,328.5	92.3	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,215	11,025	84	33	1	10,960.7	112.5	1.0%
Vernon	1,677	11,810	59	32	3	5,537.0	105.7	1.9%
Vilas	1,818	7,797	96	31	2	8,394.9	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,369	37,874	2,154	114	12	8,155.7	111.1	1.4%
Washburn	1,167	5,773	68	15	2	7,361.4	94.6	1.3%
Washington	12,912	48,312	1,625	111	5	9,601.0	82.5	0.9%
Waukesha	37,990	155,677	3,699	405	33	9,529.9	101.6	1.1%
Waupaca	4,458	18,185	817	103	39	8,617.7	199.1	2.3%
Waushara	2,009	10,077	213	24	2	8,268.2	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,144	72,785	2,302	166	18	9,533.3	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,155	27,889	400	63	11	8,314.6	85.1	1.0%