1,493 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,493 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 6,363 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 9,556, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 17th. The seven-day testing total stands at 43,820, 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 21.81%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 23.10%. 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 657 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 21 from a day prior and 114 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,046.

The state reported 89 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,243 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 618 in the past week.

DHS reported 33 new deaths. A total of 5,893 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,135 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 33.07, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 47.97.

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 17,868.6 cases per 100,000 residents (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,501.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,489.2). 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, 10,032.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,005.1).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,339.4 (up from 9,365.2). 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	1,498	7,297	156	11	3	7,309.1	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,146	6,464	62	16	0	7,224.4	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,122	17,929	125	71	0	11,163.9	154.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,033	6,283	55	18	0	6,794.3	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,283	121,437	2,060	197	20	11,248.5	75.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,261	4,884	29	7	0	9,334.5	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,098	5,645	122	23	0	7,108.2	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,230	19,158	476	39	2	10,160.1	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,801	26,841	149	80	2	10,590.2	124.6	1.2%
Clark	3,095	9,818	367	56	4	8,908.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,832	25,445	362	43	7	8,458.2	75.3	0.9%
Crawford	1,637	7,053	47	16	0	9,888.3	96.6	1.0%
Dane	37,848	311,926	1,498	251	21	7,161.5	47.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,152	38,571	708	146	18	12,501.5	163.7	1.3%
Door	2,347	13,167	190	18	5	8,366.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,540	17,280	555	18	14	8,068.6	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,040	17,268	318	26	0	9,022.5	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,530	45,592	299	98	10	10,233.9	95.2	0.9%
Florence	425	1,525	32	12	0	9,613.2	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,530	41,214	954	84	9	11,153.8	81.3	0.7%
Forest	911	3,959	69	22	3	9,921.6	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,488	21,673	630	79	5	8,569.1	150.8	1.8%
Green	2,713	15,108	99	13	6	7,359.5	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,491	7,162	404	15	3	7,811.2	78.6	1.0%
Iowa	1,790	10,273	88	9	1	7,521.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	475	2,364	112	19	17	8,128.0	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,548	9,253	39	23	0	12,342.6	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,542	33,386	849	71	6	8,907.0	83.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,869	13,932	80	17	1	10,662.3	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,207	67,957	1,921	270	14	8,444.9	160.5	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,348	6,816	157	26	1	11,373.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,687	49,068	612	72	0	9,876.4	60.8	0.6%
Lafayette	1,376	5,985	144	7	1	8,150.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,888	6,507	151	31	12	9,546.4	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,802	9,906	186	55	17	9,851.6	193.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,929	27,819	1,042	60	15	8,633.8	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,286	46,890	1,298	169	32	9,860.4	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,903	16,738	370	60	2	9,533.9	146.6	1.5%
Marquette	1,269	5,687	165	21	5	8,252.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	783	3,750	2	11	0	17,868.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	94,752	435,287	8,331	1,135	28	10,032.2	120.2	1.2%
Monroe	4,073	17,443	81	30	1	8,854.7	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,147	15,646	411	47	7	10,924.1	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,176	13,923	127	57	4	8,843.6	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,366	77,417	2,103	181	7	9,992.4	98.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,338	37,650	856	72	6	8,304.7	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	777	2,864	19	7	0	10,572.9	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,315	15,396	819	33	5	7,962.1	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,578	17,589	54	42	0	8,150.3	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,150	24,927	470	59	3	8,696.4	83.4	1.0%
Price	1,102	5,133	88	7	0	7,980.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,796	95,047	2,480	299	28	10,141.2	153.2	1.5%
Richland	1,226	8,072	35	13	0	6,921.9	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,751	68,694	1,427	144	13	8,580.2	89.9	1.0%
Rusk	1,228	4,610	40	15	1	8,449.2	103.2	1.2%
Sauk	5,070	33,397	232	36	6	8,087.9	57.4	0.7%
Sawyer	1,410	7,683	32	17	0	8,509.9	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,500	16,128	476	69	11	10,906.4	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,437	43,116	674	114	7	10,860.6	99.6	0.9%
St. Croix	6,114	32,527	1,496	41	4	6,934.4	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,752	5,454	210	20	9	8,513.1	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,274	11,249	88	36	2	11,161.9	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,734	12,055	60	34	3	5,725.2	112.3	2.0%
Vilas	1,950	8,011	109	32	2	9,004.4	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,587	38,600	2,261	118	13	8,368.2	115.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,226	5,957	69	18	2	7,733.6	113.5	1.5%
Washington	13,261	49,512	1,670	123	8	9,860.5	91.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,993	159,163	3,868	446	39	9,781.5	111.9	1.1%
Waupaca	4,610	18,667	847	107	40	8,911.5	206.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,043	10,225	264	25	2	8,408.1	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,521	74,316	2,498	169	19	9,755.9	99.8	1.0%
Wood	6,398	28,599	412	67	11	8,642.9	90.5	1.0%