2,070 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 2,070 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 8,382 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 11,920, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 47,633, 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 25.02%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 27.89%. 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 785 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 23 from a day prior and 168 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,243.

DHS reported 91 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,536 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 613 in the past week.

DHS reported 36 new deaths. A total of 5,643 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,112 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 34.3, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 53.43.

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 17,822.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,708.8). Dodge County has recorded 12,339 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,313.2). 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, 9,838 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,803.3).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,170.8 (up from 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	1,457	7,177	151	11	3	7,109.1	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,113	6,313	63	16	0	7,016.3	100.9	1.4%
Barron	4,984	17,651	122	66	0	10,863.1	143.9	1.3%
Bayfield	1,017	6,149	54	18	0	6,689.0	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,693	119,629	1,998	186	15	11,021.8	71.4	0.6%
Buffalo	1,224	4,722	27	7	0	9,060.6	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,071	5,548	124	23	0	6,933.4	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,092	18,784	447	39	2	9,892.0	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,642	26,392	142	76	2	10,342.6	118.3	1.1%
Clark	3,043	9,683	354	56	4	8,759.1	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,707	25,051	355	39	6	8,239.4	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,626	6,961	46	14	0	9,821.8	84.6	0.9%
Dane	36,944	305,563	1,488	228	20	6,990.4	43.1	0.6%
Dodge	11,007	38,122	686	133	17	12,339.0	149.1	1.2%
Door	2,314	12,927	185	18	4	8,249.3	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,469	16,891	549	18	13	7,906.7	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,938	16,784	313	26	0	8,794.7	58.1	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,271	44,619	279	97	11	9,982.2	94.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,504	31	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,336	40,574	908	76	9	10,966.1	73.5	0.7%
Forest	897	3,864	66	22	3	9,769.1	239.6	2.5%
Grant	4,402	21,357	587	78	5	8,404.9	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,597	14,827	86	11	4	7,044.8	29.8	0.4%
Green Lake	1,467	7,029	391	14	3	7,685.5	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,770	10,113	86	9	1	7,437.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	467	2,317	112	19	17	7,991.1	325.1	4.1%
Jackson	2,521	9,464	38	20	0	12,211.8	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,360	32,919	810	64	5	8,692.1	75.6	0.9%
Juneau	2,825	13,792	79	15	1	10,498.7	55.7	0.5%
Kenosha	13,922	66,982	1,828	258	11	8,275.5	153.4	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,291	6,736	148	26	1	11,097.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,217	47,967	598	69	0	9,479.2	58.3	0.6%
Lafayette	1,343	5,901	137	7	1	7,954.7	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,875	6,403	145	31	11	9,480.7	156.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,743	9,717	184	53	15	9,644.2	186.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,788	27,362	1,011	59	14	8,458.1	73.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,036	46,136	1,270	168	31	9,674.9	124.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,843	16,448	368	58	1	9,387.4	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,237	5,573	159	21	5	8,044.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	781	3,709	2	11	0	17,822.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	92,918	429,625	8,124	1,112	22	9,838.0	117.7	1.2%
Monroe	3,950	17,080	83	30	1	8,587.3	65.2	0.8%
Oconto	4,087	15,438	402	44	7	10,766.0	115.9	1.1%
Oneida	3,064	13,717	125	53	4	8,531.7	147.6	1.7%
Outagamie	17,950	75,727	1,971	171	7	9,766.1	93.0	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,167	36,954	844	66	6	8,111.1	74.7	0.9%
Pepin	767	2,807	19	7	0	10,436.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,234	15,125	777	32	5	7,767.5	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,460	17,300	51	38	0	7,881.5	86.6	1.1%
Portage	6,014	24,499	437	57	3	8,504.1	80.6	0.9%
Price	1,054	5,038	83	7	0	7,633.3	50.7	0.7%
Racine	19,472	94,480	2,415	290	23	9,975.3	148.6	1.5%
Richland	1,196	8,024	33	13	0	6,752.5	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,433	67,652	1,347	133	12	8,381.7	83.0	1.0%
Rusk	1,212	4,515	37	14	1	8,339.1	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,946	32,984	223	35	6	7,890.1	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,367	7,547	30	17	0	8,250.3	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,442	15,842	470	66	11	10,765.9	160.0	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,286	42,576	628	111	6	10,728.7	96.9	0.9%
St. Croix	5,953	31,924	1,409	37	3	6,751.8	42.0	0.6%
Taylor	1,723	5,349	208	19	8	8,372.2	92.3	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,238	11,080	84	34	2	11,039.1	115.9	1.1%
Unassigned	0	0	0	0	0
Vernon	1,690	11,856	59	33	3	5,580.0	109.0	2.0%
Vilas	1,841	7,832	98	31	2	8,501.1	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,436	38,016	2,172	116	13	8,221.0	113.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,186	5,793	69	15	2	7,481.2	94.6	1.3%
Washington	12,996	48,647	1,640	119	6	9,663.5	88.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,318	156,603	3,748	415	34	9,612.1	104.1	1.1%
Waupaca	4,513	18,310	833	103	39	8,724.0	199.1	2.3%
Waushara	2,020	10,100	229	24	2	8,313.4	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,278	73,191	2,342	166	18	9,612.4	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,213	28,053	403	63	11	8,393.0	85.1	1.0%