1,802 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,802 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 7,986 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 10,247, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 17th. The seven-day testing total stands at 46,359, 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 22.10%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 23.88%. 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 718 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 16 from a day prior and 90 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,082.

The state reported 87 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,063 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 618 in the past week.

DHS reported 24 new deaths. A total of 5,811 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,127 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 32.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 49.20.

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 12,466.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,445.5). 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, 9,978.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,952.6).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,312.3 (up from 9,281.1). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 402.7 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.

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	1,491	7,271	155	11	3	7,274.9	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,132	6,445	65	16	0	7,136.1	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,087	17,879	125	69	0	11,087.6	150.4	1.4%
Bayfield	1,032	6,256	54	18	0	6,787.7	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,107	121,005	2,080	193	19	11,180.9	74.1	0.7%
Buffalo	1,251	4,844	33	7	0	9,260.5	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,091	5,627	124	23	0	7,062.9	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,188	19,042	472	39	2	10,078.5	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,769	26,731	149	77	2	10,540.3	119.9	1.1%
Clark	3,083	9,794	363	56	4	8,874.2	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,813	25,342	360	39	6	8,424.9	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,636	7,030	47	15	0	9,882.2	90.6	0.9%
Dane	37,600	310,610	1,491	244	21	7,114.5	46.2	0.6%
Dodge	11,121	38,428	707	143	18	12,466.8	160.3	1.3%
Door	2,340	13,111	189	18	5	8,341.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,518	17,178	561	18	14	8,018.4	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,007	17,118	318	26	0	8,948.8	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,475	45,305	295	97	10	10,180.5	94.3	0.9%
Florence	422	1,522	32	12	0	9,545.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,486	41,036	939	82	9	11,111.2	79.3	0.7%
Forest	903	3,939	68	22	3	9,834.5	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,461	21,520	623	79	5	8,517.6	150.8	1.8%
Green	2,677	15,028	96	12	5	7,261.8	32.6	0.4%
Green Lake	1,489	7,134	400	15	3	7,800.7	78.6	1.0%
Iowa	1,786	10,238	88	9	1	7,504.5	37.8	0.5%
Iron	470	2,350	112	19	17	8,042.4	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,544	9,217	39	21	0	12,323.2	101.7	0.8%
Jefferson	7,500	33,286	846	70	6	8,857.4	82.7	0.9%
Juneau	2,861	13,890	80	17	1	10,632.5	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,139	67,733	1,892	268	12	8,404.5	159.3	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,329	6,794	159	26	1	11,281.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,503	48,711	611	71	0	9,720.9	60.0	0.6%
Lafayette	1,366	5,955	143	7	1	8,091.0	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,884	6,489	151	31	12	9,526.2	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,781	9,847	186	55	16	9,777.8	193.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,878	27,680	1,032	60	15	8,570.3	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,234	46,750	1,298	169	32	9,821.8	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,886	16,648	370	58	2	9,492.4	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,261	5,664	165	21	5	8,200.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	782	3,750	2	11	0	17,845.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	94,241	433,728	8,287	1,127	27	9,978.1	119.3	1.2%
Monroe	4,050	17,379	81	30	1	8,804.7	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,132	15,598	410	45	7	10,884.6	118.5	1.1%
Oneida	3,145	13,856	127	57	4	8,757.3	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,235	76,948	2,068	177	7	9,921.1	96.3	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,297	37,493	851	72	6	8,258.3	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	775	2,844	19	7	0	10,545.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,288	15,315	806	33	5	7,897.2	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,537	17,503	52	42	0	8,056.9	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,088	24,786	467	59	3	8,608.7	83.4	1.0%
Price	1,092	5,110	88	7	0	7,908.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,717	94,888	2,464	296	25	10,100.8	151.6	1.5%
Richland	1,212	8,066	35	13	0	6,842.8	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,669	68,422	1,414	138	12	8,529.0	86.1	1.0%
Rusk	1,227	4,579	38	14	1	8,442.3	96.3	1.1%
Sauk	5,041	33,318	233	35	6	8,041.7	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,403	7,641	31	17	0	8,467.6	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,488	16,055	471	68	11	10,877.4	164.8	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,409	42,992	658	113	7	10,836.1	98.7	0.9%
St. Croix	6,080	32,343	1,478	40	4	6,895.8	45.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,746	5,432	210	20	8	8,484.0	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,266	11,215	88	34	2	11,134.6	115.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,725	12,026	61	34	3	5,695.5	112.3	2.0%
Vilas	1,915	7,970	104	32	2	8,842.8	147.8	1.7%
Walworth	8,538	38,464	2,229	118	13	8,320.4	115.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,219	5,917	69	17	2	7,689.4	107.2	1.4%
Washington	13,206	49,293	1,664	121	8	9,819.6	90.0	0.9%
Waukesha	38,794	158,546	3,832	438	37	9,731.5	109.9	1.1%
Waupaca	4,591	18,557	837	105	40	8,874.8	203.0	2.3%
Waushara	2,035	10,207	259	25	2	8,375.2	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,459	74,026	2,470	167	19	9,719.3	98.6	1.0%
Wood	6,345	28,430	411	66	11	8,571.3	89.2	1.0%