2,177 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 2,177 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 8,687 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 12,119, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 47,291, 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 25.6%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 28.65%. 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 808 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 26 from a day prior and 190 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,308.

DHS reported 82 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,445 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 641 in the past week.

DHS reported 45 new deaths. A total of 5,607 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,111 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 35.4, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 51.33.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 18th 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 17,708.8 cases per 100,000 residents. Dodge County has recorded 12,313.2 cases per 100,000 residents. Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Chippewa, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,803.3 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 9,135. 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.

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	1,453	7,159	151	11	3	7,089.5	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,110	6,305	61	16	0	6,997.4	100.9	1.4%
Barron	4,950	17,565	123	66	0	10,789.0	143.9	1.3%
Bayfield	1,012	6,141	53	18	0	6,656.1	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,595	119,394	1,968	186	15	10,984.2	71.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,215	4,704	27	7	0	8,994.0	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,070	5,540	122	23	0	6,926.9	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,081	18,738	441	39	2	9,870.6	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,599	26,316	142	74	2	10,275.6	115.2	1.1%
Clark	3,031	9,669	354	56	4	8,724.6	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,687	25,031	354	39	6	8,204.4	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,622	6,941	46	14	0	9,797.6	84.6	0.9%
Dane	36,746	304,217	1,482	228	20	6,952.9	43.1	0.6%
Dodge	10,984	37,979	688	133	17	12,313.2	149.1	1.2%
Door	2,308	12,900	184	18	4	8,227.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,460	16,836	545	18	13	7,886.2	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,913	16,736	313	25	0	8,738.9	55.8	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,233	44,497	281	95	11	9,945.3	92.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,501	31	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,311	40,524	898	76	9	10,941.9	73.5	0.7%
Forest	897	3,844	66	22	3	9,769.1	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,385	21,337	582	78	5	8,372.5	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,576	14,753	83	11	4	6,987.8	29.8	0.4%
Green Lake	1,456	7,013	394	14	3	7,627.8	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,771	10,095	86	9	1	7,441.5	37.8	0.5%
Iron	451	2,317	110	19	17	7,717.3	325.1	4.2%
Jackson	2,514	9,461	38	20	0	12,177.9	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,337	32,853	803	64	5	8,664.9	75.6	0.9%
Juneau	2,816	13,780	79	15	1	10,465.3	55.7	0.5%
Kenosha	13,869	66,790	1,819	257	11	8,244.0	152.8	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,280	6,723	145	26	1	11,044.4	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,193	47,815	597	69	0	9,458.9	58.3	0.6%
Lafayette	1,341	5,894	136	7	1	7,942.9	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,873	6,393	144	31	11	9,470.6	156.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,731	9,686	183	52	15	9,602.0	182.8	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,752	27,248	1,011	59	14	8,413.3	73.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,010	46,050	1,268	168	31	9,655.6	124.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,829	16,412	366	57	0	9,353.2	139.2	1.5%
Marquette	1,233	5,552	159	21	5	8,017.9	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	776	3,707	2	11	0	17,708.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	92,590	428,776	8,090	1,111	22	9,803.3	117.6	1.2%
Monroe	3,912	17,046	81	30	1	8,504.7	65.2	0.8%
Oconto	4,082	15,392	401	44	6	10,752.9	115.9	1.1%
Oneida	3,054	13,683	125	53	4	8,503.9	147.6	1.7%
Outagamie	17,844	75,461	1,964	170	6	9,708.4	92.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,138	36,857	839	66	6	8,078.3	74.7	0.9%
Pepin	760	2,800	19	7	0	10,341.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,226	15,096	777	32	5	7,748.3	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,448	17,240	49	37	0	7,854.2	84.3	1.1%
Portage	5,987	24,449	436	57	3	8,465.9	80.6	1.0%
Price	1,050	5,025	81	7	0	7,604.3	50.7	0.7%
Racine	19,407	94,428	2,409	281	19	9,942.0	144.0	1.4%
Richland	1,193	8,036	33	13	0	6,735.5	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,382	67,523	1,336	133	12	8,349.9	83.0	1.0%
Rusk	1,206	4,489	37	14	1	8,297.8	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,920	32,943	224	35	6	7,848.6	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,352	7,523	30	17	0	8,159.8	102.6	1.3%
Shawano	4,430	15,781	469	65	11	10,736.8	157.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,251	42,433	617	111	6	10,698.2	96.9	0.9%
St. Croix	5,927	31,850	1,404	36	3	6,722.3	40.8	0.6%
Taylor	1,718	5,333	207	19	8	8,347.9	92.3	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,224	11,057	84	33	2	10,991.4	112.5	1.0%
Vernon	1,681	11,824	59	32	3	5,550.2	105.7	1.9%
Vilas	1,832	7,819	97	31	2	8,459.5	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,414	37,975	2,163	115	12	8,199.6	112.1	1.4%
Washburn	1,175	5,783	68	15	2	7,411.8	94.6	1.3%
Washington	12,959	48,530	1,633	113	6	9,635.9	84.0	0.9%
Waukesha	38,151	156,144	3,730	410	33	9,570.2	102.8	1.1%
Waupaca	4,489	18,249	825	103	39	8,677.6	199.1	2.3%
Waushara	2,014	10,089	226	24	2	8,288.7	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,218	73,005	2,338	166	18	9,577.0	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,180	27,977	401	63	11	8,348.4	85.1	1.0%