1,119 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,119 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 6,331 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 11,177, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 47,718, 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 23.42%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 26.43%. 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 761 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 10 from a day prior and 92 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,070.

The state reported 67 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,692 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 616 in the past week.

DHS reported six new deaths. A total of 5,649 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,114 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 33.73, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 50.03.

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 17,845.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,822.9). Dodge County has recorded 12,377.1 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,365.9). 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, 9,884 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,866.6).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,219.3 (up from 9,199.9). 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.

Data from DHS

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	1,469	7,216	154	11	3	7,167.6	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,121	6,360	65	16	0	7,066.8	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,024	17,724	124	68	0	10,950.3	148.2	1.4%
Bayfield	1,022	6,178	53	18	0	6,721.9	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,825	120,164	2,038	190	16	11,072.5	73.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,236	4,750	31	7	0	9,149.5	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,078	5,562	122	23	0	6,978.7	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,128	18,864	452	39	2	9,961.9	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,681	26,515	145	76	2	10,403.3	118.3	1.1%
Clark	3,054	9,721	355	57	4	8,790.8	164.1	1.9%
Columbia	4,744	25,156	360	39	6	8,304.2	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,627	6,985	46	15	0	9,827.8	90.6	0.9%
Dane	37,193	308,041	1,494	231	20	7,037.5	43.7	0.6%
Dodge	11,041	38,202	693	138	18	12,377.1	154.7	1.2%
Door	2,326	12,997	189	18	4	8,292.0	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,480	16,981	553	18	14	7,931.8	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,959	16,921	318	26	0	8,841.6	58.1	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,350	44,848	290	97	10	10,059.0	94.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,507	32	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,368	40,764	920	76	9	10,997.1	73.5	0.7%
Forest	899	3,882	66	22	3	9,790.9	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,415	21,408	612	78	5	8,429.8	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,619	14,895	93	12	5	7,104.5	32.6	0.5%
Green Lake	1,473	7,075	399	14	3	7,716.9	73.3	1.0%
Iowa	1,775	10,166	86	9	1	7,458.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	469	2,324	112	19	17	8,025.3	325.1	4.1%
Jackson	2,528	9,236	39	20	0	12,245.7	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,417	33,057	816	66	5	8,759.4	77.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,847	13,858	78	15	1	10,580.5	55.7	0.5%
Kenosha	13,992	67,191	1,854	262	11	8,317.1	155.7	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,307	6,758	150	26	1	11,175.2	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,299	48,149	609	70	0	9,548.5	59.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,348	5,923	140	7	1	7,984.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,876	6,440	147	31	11	9,485.8	156.7	1.7%
Lincoln	2,760	9,755	184	53	15	9,704.0	186.3	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,815	27,516	1,015	60	15	8,491.8	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,114	46,379	1,281	169	31	9,732.7	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,861	16,529	368	58	1	9,431.3	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,242	5,600	162	21	5	8,076.5	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	782	3,712	2	11	0	17,845.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	93,352	430,930	8,186	1,114	22	9,884.0	117.9	1.2%
Monroe	3,990	17,224	83	30	1	8,674.3	65.2	0.8%
Oconto	4,103	15,499	407	44	7	10,808.2	115.9	1.1%
Oneida	3,095	13,800	126	55	4	8,618.0	153.1	1.8%
Outagamie	18,039	76,109	1,989	172	7	9,814.5	93.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,209	37,158	842	68	6	8,158.7	77.0	0.9%
Pepin	771	2,816	19	7	0	10,491.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,249	15,200	793	32	5	7,803.5	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,495	17,385	53	39	1	7,961.3	88.8	1.1%
Portage	6,040	24,579	447	58	3	8,540.8	82.0	1.0%
Price	1,073	5,074	85	7	0	7,770.9	50.7	0.7%
Racine	19,546	94,649	2,460	290	23	10,013.2	148.6	1.5%
Richland	1,208	8,054	35	13	0	6,820.2	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,535	67,977	1,390	136	12	8,445.4	84.9	1.0%
Rusk	1,215	4,534	37	14	1	8,359.7	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	4,979	33,125	231	35	6	7,942.8	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,389	7,575	31	17	0	8,383.1	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,459	15,912	475	66	12	10,807.1	160.0	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,325	42,701	628	111	6	10,762.8	96.9	0.9%
St. Croix	6,006	32,077	1,424	39	3	6,811.9	44.2	0.6%
Taylor	1,734	5,381	209	20	8	8,425.7	97.2	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,253	11,119	87	34	2	11,090.3	115.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,704	11,906	60	33	3	5,626.2	109.0	1.9%
Vilas	1,857	7,870	99	31	2	8,575.0	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,460	38,189	2,190	116	13	8,244.4	113.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,202	5,835	81	15	2	7,582.2	94.6	1.2%
Washington	13,072	48,853	1,639	119	6	9,720.0	88.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,450	157,238	3,773	420	35	9,645.2	105.4	1.1%
Waupaca	4,539	18,393	839	104	39	8,774.2	201.0	2.3%
Waushara	2,032	10,151	240	24	2	8,362.8	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,348	73,490	2,397	166	18	9,653.7	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,261	28,223	404	64	11	8,457.8	86.5	1.0%