1,007 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,007 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 5,220 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 9,444, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 16th. The seven-day testing total stands at 42,709, 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 22.11%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 22.80%. 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 697 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 40 from a day prior, but a decrease of 64 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,010.

The state reported 55 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,298 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 606 in the past week.

DHS reported three new deaths. A total of 5,896 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,136 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 34.23, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 45.57.

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 12,509.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,501.5). 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, 10,052.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,032.1).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,382.6 (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	1,504	7,318	156	11	3	7,338.4	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,146	6,481	62	16	0	7,224.4	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,134	17,970	126	71	0	11,190.1	154.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,035	6,298	55	18	0	6,807.4	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,324	121,580	2,061	197	20	11,264.2	75.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,266	4,899	29	7	0	9,371.5	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,103	5,653	123	23	0	7,140.5	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,251	19,200	476	39	2	10,200.9	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,822	26,892	149	80	2	10,622.9	124.6	1.2%
Clark	3,103	9,835	368	56	4	8,931.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,841	25,507	363	44	7	8,474.0	77.0	0.9%
Crawford	1,639	7,058	47	16	0	9,900.3	96.6	1.0%
Dane	37,949	312,511	1,511	251	21	7,180.6	47.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,159	38,618	712	147	18	12,509.4	164.8	1.3%
Door	2,354	13,171	190	18	5	8,391.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,552	17,325	559	18	14	8,095.9	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,054	17,303	317	26	0	9,053.8	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,554	45,664	302	98	10	10,257.3	95.2	0.9%
Florence	426	1,530	32	12	0	9,635.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,530	41,264	954	84	9	11,153.8	81.3	0.7%
Forest	911	3,962	69	22	3	9,921.6	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,500	21,707	636	79	5	8,592.0	150.8	1.8%
Green	2,729	15,138	100	13	6	7,402.9	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,491	7,178	411	15	3	7,811.2	78.6	1.0%
Iowa	1,790	10,305	88	9	1	7,521.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	476	2,371	112	19	17	8,145.1	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,548	9,177	39	22	0	12,342.6	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,552	33,456	850	71	6	8,918.8	83.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,883	13,955	80	17	1	10,714.3	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,239	68,099	1,928	270	14	8,464.0	160.5	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,352	6,819	157	26	1	11,393.1	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,728	49,148	615	73	0	9,911.0	61.7	0.6%
Lafayette	1,377	5,994	144	7	1	8,156.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,890	6,518	151	31	12	9,556.6	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,805	9,922	187	55	17	9,862.2	193.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,939	27,866	1,045	60	15	8,646.3	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,306	46,971	1,303	169	32	9,875.2	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,904	16,755	371	60	2	9,536.4	146.6	1.5%
Marquette	1,269	5,702	165	21	5	8,252.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	783	3,746	2	11	0	17,868.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	94,946	435,881	8,334	1,136	28	10,052.7	120.3	1.2%
Monroe	4,086	17,464	81	30	1	8,883.0	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,152	15,683	414	47	7	10,937.3	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,197	13,948	127	57	4	8,902.1	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,404	77,587	2,118	181	7	10,013.1	98.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,345	37,713	856	72	6	8,312.6	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	777	2,870	19	7	0	10,572.9	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,320	15,433	821	33	5	7,974.1	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,589	17,633	56	42	0	8,175.4	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,165	24,980	472	59	3	8,717.6	83.4	1.0%
Price	1,103	5,146	88	7	0	7,988.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,813	95,175	2,496	299	28	10,149.9	153.2	1.5%
Richland	1,228	8,079	35	13	0	6,933.2	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,777	68,822	1,433	144	13	8,596.4	89.9	1.0%
Rusk	1,228	4,615	40	15	1	8,449.2	103.2	1.2%
Sauk	5,074	33,472	232	36	6	8,094.3	57.4	0.7%
Sawyer	1,416	7,700	31	17	0	8,546.1	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,505	16,146	479	69	11	10,918.6	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,453	43,188	674	114	7	10,874.6	99.6	0.9%
St. Croix	6,130	32,606	1,498	41	4	6,952.6	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,757	5,463	210	20	9	8,537.4	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,273	11,262	88	36	2	11,158.5	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,735	12,073	60	34	3	5,728.5	112.3	2.0%
Vilas	1,957	8,025	110	32	2	9,036.8	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,590	38,672	2,265	118	14	8,371.1	115.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,233	5,971	69	18	2	7,777.7	113.5	1.5%
Washington	13,279	49,604	1,673	123	8	9,873.9	91.5	0.9%
Waukesha	39,050	159,440	3,869	446	39	9,795.8	111.9	1.1%
Waupaca	4,618	18,710	847	107	40	8,926.9	206.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,044	10,251	264	25	2	8,412.2	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,539	74,450	2,509	169	19	9,766.5	99.8	1.0%
Wood	6,414	28,672	412	67	11	8,664.5	90.5	1.0%