State Ends January With 61,313 New COVID-19 Cases, 1,037 Deaths

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 750 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,820 processed tests.

Over the course of January, the state reported 61,313 cases, 2,948 hospitalizations and 1,037 deaths.

The seven-day case total stands at 9,248, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 15th. 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 21.85%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 22.70%. 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. But the seven-day average hasn’t been below 10% since September 6th.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 686 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 11 from a day prior and 86 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,018.

The state reported 39 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,337 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 589 in the past week.

DHS reported one new death. A total of 5,897 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 43.6.

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 12,515 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,509.4). 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, 10,066.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,052.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,395.6 (up from 9,382.6). 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	1,510	7,323	156	11	3	7,367.7	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,148	6,494	62	16	0	7,237.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,134	17,979	126	71	0	11,190.1	154.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,036	6,312	56	18	0	6,814.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,328	121,671	2,060	197	20	11,265.7	75.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,270	4,906	28	7	0	9,401.1	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,107	5,659	123	23	0	7,166.4	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,259	19,217	479	39	2	10,216.4	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,833	26,922	149	80	2	10,640.0	124.6	1.2%
Clark	3,103	9,851	368	56	4	8,931.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,847	25,531	363	44	7	8,484.5	77.0	0.9%
Crawford	1,639	7,060	47	16	0	9,900.3	96.6	1.0%
Dane	38,020	312,912	1,511	251	21	7,194.0	47.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,164	38,656	716	147	18	12,515.0	164.8	1.3%
Door	2,354	13,175	190	18	5	8,391.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,563	17,359	560	18	14	8,121.0	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,067	17,317	316	26	0	9,082.8	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,583	45,713	298	98	10	10,285.4	95.2	0.9%
Florence	426	1,530	32	12	0	9,635.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,544	41,333	959	84	9	11,167.3	81.3	0.7%
Forest	911	3,965	69	22	3	9,921.6	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,512	21,743	632	79	5	8,615.0	150.8	1.8%
Green	2,737	15,155	100	13	6	7,424.6	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,491	7,184	411	15	3	7,811.2	78.6	1.0%
Iowa	1,799	10,326	88	9	1	7,559.1	37.8	0.5%
Iron	476	2,374	112	19	17	8,145.1	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,548	9,139	39	22	0	12,342.6	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,587	33,510	850	71	6	8,960.1	83.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,886	13,966	80	17	1	10,725.4	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,255	68,183	1,927	271	14	8,473.5	161.1	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,352	6,824	157	26	1	11,393.1	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,753	49,242	617	73	0	9,932.1	61.7	0.6%
Lafayette	1,377	6,001	144	7	1	8,156.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,891	6,528	151	31	12	9,561.6	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,807	9,929	187	55	17	9,869.2	193.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,951	27,899	1,048	60	15	8,661.3	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,313	47,021	1,307	169	32	9,880.4	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,904	16,773	371	60	2	9,536.4	146.6	1.5%
Marquette	1,270	5,707	165	21	5	8,258.6	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	783	3,747	2	11	0	17,868.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	95,078	436,429	8,337	1,136	28	10,066.7	120.3	1.2%
Monroe	4,094	17,480	81	30	1	8,900.4	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,160	15,698	415	47	7	10,958.3	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,207	13,960	127	57	4	8,929.9	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,440	77,689	2,123	181	7	10,032.6	98.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,349	37,743	859	72	6	8,317.1	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	777	2,874	19	7	0	10,572.9	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,326	15,466	819	33	5	7,988.5	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,605	17,658	57	42	0	8,211.8	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,165	25,021	472	59	3	8,717.6	83.4	1.0%
Price	1,105	5,149	87	7	0	8,002.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,835	95,280	2,496	299	28	10,161.2	153.2	1.5%
Richland	1,230	8,086	35	13	0	6,944.4	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,793	68,903	1,436	144	13	8,606.4	89.9	1.0%
Rusk	1,228	4,619	40	15	1	8,449.2	103.2	1.2%
Sauk	5,089	33,517	230	36	6	8,118.2	57.4	0.7%
Sawyer	1,417	7,708	31	17	0	8,552.1	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,507	16,159	480	69	11	10,923.4	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,463	43,239	673	114	7	10,883.3	99.6	0.9%
St. Croix	6,140	32,641	1,497	41	4	6,963.9	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,758	5,473	210	20	9	8,542.3	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,279	11,281	88	36	2	11,178.9	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,738	12,081	60	34	3	5,738.4	112.3	2.0%
Vilas	1,964	8,048	110	32	2	9,069.1	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,590	38,723	2,265	118	14	8,371.1	115.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,235	5,977	69	18	2	7,790.3	113.5	1.5%
Washington	13,286	49,666	1,673	123	8	9,879.1	91.5	0.9%
Waukesha	39,121	159,704	3,876	446	39	9,813.6	111.9	1.1%
Waupaca	4,626	18,737	846	107	40	8,942.4	206.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,044	10,263	264	25	3	8,412.2	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,552	74,569	2,514	169	19	9,774.2	99.8	1.0%
Wood	6,426	28,693	411	67	11	8,680.7	90.5	1.0%