946 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 946 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 4,199 processed tests. Excluding the 632 cases reported December 26th, it’s the lowest total reported since September 14th. But it’s also the second-lowest testing total over the same period.

The seven-day case total stands at 11,040, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 46,785, 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 23.60%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 26.25%. 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 772 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 11 from a day prior, but a decrease of 103 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,081.

The state reported 56 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,748 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 618 in the past week.

DHS reported eight new deaths. A total of 5,699 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,115 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 33.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 48.10.

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 (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,389.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,377.1). 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, 9,904.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,884).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,235.6 (up from 9,219.3). 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	1,472	7,225	154	11	3	7,182.2	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,124	6,372	65	16	0	7,085.7	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,036	17,730	124	68	0	10,976.5	148.2	1.4%
Bayfield	1,028	6,200	53	18	0	6,761.4	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,836	120,273	2,045	190	16	11,076.8	73.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,235	4,753	31	7	0	9,142.1	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,081	5,583	122	23	0	6,998.1	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,139	18,884	456	39	2	9,983.3	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,693	26,544	147	76	2	10,422.0	118.3	1.1%
Clark	3,058	9,730	355	57	4	8,802.3	164.1	1.9%
Columbia	4,751	25,179	360	39	6	8,316.4	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,629	6,990	46	15	0	9,839.9	90.6	0.9%
Dane	37,285	308,444	1,498	229	20	7,054.9	43.3	0.6%
Dodge	11,052	38,233	695	138	18	12,389.4	154.7	1.2%
Door	2,325	13,002	189	18	4	8,288.5	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,486	17,005	562	18	14	7,945.5	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,972	16,938	316	26	0	8,870.6	58.1	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,370	44,887	287	97	10	10,078.4	94.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,507	32	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,419	40,794	927	76	9	11,046.4	73.5	0.7%
Forest	899	3,887	67	22	3	9,790.9	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,417	21,427	611	78	5	8,433.6	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,623	14,920	93	12	5	7,115.3	32.6	0.5%
Green Lake	1,474	7,080	399	14	3	7,722.1	73.3	0.9%
Iowa	1,775	10,182	86	9	1	7,458.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	469	2,331	112	19	17	8,025.3	325.1	4.1%
Jackson	2,529	9,240	39	20	0	12,250.5	96.9	0.8%
Jefferson	7,442	33,117	821	66	5	8,788.9	77.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,851	13,858	78	16	1	10,595.4	59.5	0.6%
Kenosha	13,999	67,274	1,861	262	11	8,321.3	155.7	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,307	6,760	150	26	1	11,175.2	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,382	48,266	613	70	0	9,618.6	59.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,350	5,924	142	7	1	7,996.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,879	6,441	148	31	11	9,500.9	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,766	9,765	185	54	15	9,725.1	189.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,827	27,544	1,020	60	15	8,506.7	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,132	46,429	1,285	169	31	9,746.1	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,861	16,556	368	58	1	9,431.3	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,243	5,602	162	21	5	8,083.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	782	3,709	2	11	0	17,845.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	93,544	431,641	8,193	1,115	22	9,904.3	118.1	1.2%
Monroe	4,004	17,255	83	30	1	8,704.7	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,110	15,512	408	45	7	10,826.6	118.5	1.1%
Oneida	3,101	13,825	126	55	4	8,634.8	153.1	1.8%
Outagamie	18,073	76,202	2,007	174	7	9,833.0	94.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,211	37,209	842	68	6	8,160.9	77.0	0.9%
Pepin	771	2,829	19	7	0	10,491.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,252	15,214	802	32	5	7,810.7	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,503	17,403	53	39	1	7,979.5	88.8	1.1%
Portage	6,044	24,601	453	58	3	8,546.5	82.0	1.0%
Price	1,079	5,079	86	7	0	7,814.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,551	94,764	2,460	290	23	10,015.7	148.6	1.5%
Richland	1,209	8,055	35	13	0	6,825.9	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,565	68,073	1,384	136	12	8,464.1	84.9	1.0%
Rusk	1,218	4,538	37	14	1	8,380.3	96.3	1.1%
Sauk	5,000	33,159	232	35	6	7,976.3	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,388	7,576	32	17	0	8,377.1	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,464	15,931	476	67	12	10,819.2	162.4	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,348	42,748	640	112	6	10,782.9	97.8	0.9%
St. Croix	6,016	32,105	1,435	39	3	6,823.3	44.2	0.6%
Taylor	1,735	5,392	209	20	8	8,430.5	97.2	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,246	11,129	87	34	2	11,066.4	115.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,703	11,915	63	33	3	5,622.9	109.0	1.9%
Vilas	1,866	7,906	100	31	2	8,616.5	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,483	38,257	2,207	116	13	8,266.8	113.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,205	5,839	77	15	2	7,601.1	94.6	1.2%
Washington	13,079	48,927	1,642	119	6	9,725.2	88.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,527	157,552	3,776	422	35	9,664.6	105.9	1.1%
Waupaca	4,551	18,402	839	104	39	8,797.4	201.0	2.3%
Waushara	2,032	10,158	242	24	2	8,362.8	98.8	1.2%
Winnebago	16,358	73,560	2,404	166	19	9,659.6	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,266	28,247	405	64	11	8,464.6	86.5	1.0%