1,095 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,095 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,182 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 9,042, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 15th. The seven-day testing total stands at 40,064, 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 22.57%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 22.77%. 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 657 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 29 from a day prior and 89 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,069.

The state reported 123 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,460 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 577 in the past week.

DHS reported 40 new deaths. A total of 5,937 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,151 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 35.40, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 41.67.

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 17,937 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,868.6). Dodge County has recorded 12,526.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,515). 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, 10,085.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,066.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,414.6 (up from 9,395.6). 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	1,511	7,328	154	11	3	7,372.5	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,148	6,500	62	16	0	7,237.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,135	18,003	128	71	0	11,192.2	154.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,038	6,317	56	18	0	6,827.2	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,435	121,830	2,084	197	20	11,306.8	75.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,275	4,910	28	7	0	9,438.2	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,110	5,673	124	23	0	7,185.9	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,264	19,243	482	39	2	10,226.1	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,833	26,966	148	80	2	10,640.0	124.6	1.2%
Clark	3,105	9,857	368	56	4	8,937.6	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,851	25,539	363	44	7	8,491.5	77.0	0.9%
Crawford	1,641	7,061	47	16	0	9,912.4	96.6	1.0%
Dane	38,085	312,902	1,503	251	21	7,206.3	47.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,174	38,674	723	147	18	12,526.2	164.8	1.3%
Door	2,354	13,225	190	18	5	8,391.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,596	17,381	540	18	14	8,196.2	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,074	17,329	316	26	0	9,098.4	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,597	45,798	296	98	10	10,299.0	95.2	0.9%
Florence	426	1,529	35	12	0	9,635.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,587	41,364	963	84	9	11,208.9	81.3	0.7%
Forest	914	3,974	69	22	3	9,954.3	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,519	21,764	636	79	5	8,628.3	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,744	15,168	100	13	6	7,443.6	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,492	7,185	411	17	3	7,816.4	89.1	1.1%
Iowa	1,800	10,335	88	9	1	7,563.3	37.8	0.5%
Iron	476	2,378	112	19	18	8,145.1	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,550	9,143	39	22	0	12,352.3	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,607	33,541	859	71	6	8,983.8	83.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,889	13,959	80	17	1	10,736.6	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,308	68,228	1,936	275	14	8,505.0	163.5	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,358	6,830	161	26	1	11,422.2	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,774	49,361	617	74	0	9,949.9	62.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,377	6,011	144	7	1	8,156.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,892	6,538	151	31	12	9,566.7	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,811	9,943	187	55	17	9,883.3	193.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	6,960	27,938	1,051	60	15	8,672.5	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,336	47,056	1,307	169	32	9,897.5	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,912	16,808	373	61	2	9,555.9	149.0	1.6%
Marquette	1,276	5,713	166	21	5	8,297.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	786	3,742	2	11	0	17,937.0	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	95,255	436,714	8,417	1,151	30	10,085.5	121.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,098	17,502	82	30	1	8,909.1	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,165	15,718	416	47	7	10,971.5	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,215	13,985	130	57	4	8,952.2	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,479	77,836	2,130	183	7	10,053.9	99.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,359	37,795	861	72	6	8,328.4	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	782	2,876	19	7	0	10,640.9	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,338	15,474	822	33	5	8,017.3	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,612	17,672	60	42	0	8,227.8	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,194	25,048	470	60	3	8,758.6	84.8	1.0%
Price	1,105	5,154	88	7	0	8,002.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,867	95,210	2,490	300	28	10,177.6	153.7	1.5%
Richland	1,232	8,069	35	13	0	6,955.7	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,822	68,992	1,446	145	13	8,624.5	90.5	1.0%
Rusk	1,228	4,624	40	15	1	8,449.2	103.2	1.2%
Sauk	5,095	33,495	233	36	6	8,127.8	57.4	0.7%
Sawyer	1,420	7,720	31	17	0	8,570.2	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,510	16,187	482	69	11	10,930.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,474	43,302	678	122	7	10,892.9	106.5	1.0%
St. Croix	6,151	32,672	1,508	41	4	6,976.4	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,757	5,479	211	20	9	8,537.4	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,280	11,295	88	36	2	11,182.3	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,744	12,103	60	34	3	5,758.2	112.3	1.9%
Vilas	1,968	8,056	109	32	2	9,087.6	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,623	38,743	2,268	119	14	8,403.3	116.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,236	5,993	69	18	2	7,796.6	113.5	1.5%
Washington	13,317	49,726	1,681	124	8	9,902.1	92.2	0.9%
Waukesha	39,218	159,874	3,885	448	40	9,837.9	112.4	1.1%
Waupaca	4,632	18,769	850	107	40	8,954.0	206.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,046	10,272	268	25	3	8,420.4	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,579	74,613	2,519	169	19	9,790.1	99.8	1.0%
Wood	6,439	28,745	412	67	11	8,698.3	90.5	1.0%