1,681 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,681 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 7,460 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 11,664, 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 24.27%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 26.84%. 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 771 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 14 from a day prior and 140 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,150.

The state reported 89 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,625 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 599 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 33.7, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 51.97.

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 (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,365.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,339). 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, 9,866.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,838).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,199.9 (up from 9,170.8). 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	1,465	7,196	157	11	3	7,148.1	53.7	0.8%
Ashland	1,117	6,349	64	16	0	7,041.5	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,006	17,686	125	68	0	10,911.1	148.2	1.4%
Bayfield	1,018	6,171	54	18	0	6,695.6	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,770	119,914	1,999	190	16	11,051.4	73.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,230	4,735	28	7	0	9,105.0	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,075	5,554	122	23	0	6,959.3	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,109	18,820	448	39	2	9,925.0	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,657	26,463	142	76	2	10,365.9	118.3	1.1%
Clark	3,051	9,693	354	57	4	8,782.1	164.1	1.9%
Columbia	4,723	25,101	356	39	6	8,267.4	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,627	6,973	46	15	0	9,827.8	90.6	0.9%
Dane	37,078	307,082	1,496	229	20	7,015.8	43.3	0.6%
Dodge	11,031	38,151	696	138	18	12,365.9	154.7	1.3%
Door	2,323	12,940	185	18	4	8,281.3	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,477	16,941	551	18	14	7,925.0	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,945	16,878	315	26	0	8,810.3	58.1	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,311	44,728	282	97	10	10,021.1	94.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,505	31	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,367	40,682	920	76	9	10,996.1	73.5	0.7%
Forest	899	3,875	65	22	3	9,790.9	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,407	21,368	602	78	5	8,414.5	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,613	14,860	92	12	5	7,088.2	32.6	0.5%
Green Lake	1,472	7,067	398	14	3	7,711.7	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,775	10,137	86	9	1	7,458.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	469	2,318	112	19	17	8,025.3	325.1	4.1%
Jackson	2,524	9,231	38	20	0	12,226.3	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,393	32,962	816	66	5	8,731.0	77.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,836	13,830	79	15	1	10,539.6	55.7	0.5%
Kenosha	13,971	67,064	1,842	262	11	8,304.7	155.7	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,303	6,747	150	26	1	11,155.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,279	48,077	606	70	0	9,531.6	59.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,347	5,906	139	7	1	7,978.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,876	6,416	145	31	11	9,485.8	156.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,756	9,742	184	53	15	9,689.9	186.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,807	27,459	1,012	60	15	8,481.8	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,081	46,246	1,277	169	31	9,708.3	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,855	16,494	368	58	1	9,416.7	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,240	5,583	162	21	5	8,063.5	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	781	3,712	2	11	0	17,822.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	93,188	430,394	8,164	1,113	22	9,866.6	117.8	1.2%
Monroe	3,972	17,179	82	30	1	8,635.2	65.2	0.8%
Oconto	4,097	15,466	404	44	7	10,792.4	115.9	1.1%
Oneida	3,082	13,760	126	55	4	8,581.9	153.1	1.8%
Outagamie	18,012	75,957	1,983	172	7	9,799.8	93.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,199	37,074	843	68	6	8,147.4	77.0	0.9%
Pepin	770	2,812	19	7	0	10,477.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,242	15,153	788	32	5	7,786.7	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,474	17,347	52	39	1	7,913.4	88.8	1.1%
Portage	6,022	24,528	440	58	3	8,515.4	82.0	1.0%
Price	1,071	5,058	85	7	0	7,756.4	50.7	0.7%
Racine	19,523	94,505	2,447	290	23	10,001.4	148.6	1.5%
Richland	1,202	8,044	35	13	0	6,786.4	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,506	67,830	1,365	134	12	8,427.3	83.6	1.0%
Rusk	1,214	4,519	37	14	1	8,352.8	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,958	33,016	223	35	6	7,909.3	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,382	7,558	30	17	0	8,340.9	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,453	15,886	473	66	12	10,792.5	160.0	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,314	42,645	628	111	6	10,753.2	96.9	0.9%
St. Croix	5,979	32,009	1,420	38	3	6,781.3	43.1	0.6%
Taylor	1,729	5,361	209	20	8	8,401.4	97.2	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,247	11,105	86	34	2	11,069.8	115.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,698	11,890	59	33	3	5,606.4	109.0	1.9%
Vilas	1,851	7,853	97	31	2	8,547.3	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,449	38,066	2,177	116	13	8,233.7	113.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,198	5,816	73	15	2	7,556.9	94.6	1.3%
Washington	13,042	48,764	1,639	119	6	9,697.7	88.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,394	156,889	3,763	420	35	9,631.2	105.4	1.1%
Waupaca	4,528	18,368	838	104	39	8,753.0	201.0	2.3%
Waushara	2,027	10,112	239	24	2	8,342.3	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,315	73,346	2,372	166	18	9,634.2	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,233	28,157	409	64	11	8,420.0	86.5	1.0%