18 Out of 100 People in Menominee County Have Tested Positive for COVID-19

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,518 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 7,174 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 8,607, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 14th. The seven-day testing total stands at 38,565, 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 22.32%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 22.20%. 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 594 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 43 from a day prior and 124 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,102.

The state reported 80 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,634 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 571 in the past week.

DHS reported 41 new deaths. A total of 5,992 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,174 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 33.77, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 42.

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 18,005.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,937). Dodge County has recorded 12,567.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,538.5). 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, 10,132.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,107.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,461.2 (up from 9,434.9). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 337.5 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	1,519	7,368	155	11	3	7,411.6	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,154	6,513	64	16	0	7,274.8	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,163	18,101	129	72	0	11,253.3	156.9	1.4%
Bayfield	1,047	6,386	56	18	0	6,886.3	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,558	122,310	2,123	198	20	11,354.1	76.1	0.7%
Buffalo	1,284	4,961	29	7	0	9,504.8	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,116	5,693	126	23	0	7,224.7	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,307	19,383	494	39	2	10,309.7	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,871	27,099	147	84	2	10,699.2	130.8	1.2%
Clark	3,110	9,912	372	56	4	8,952.0	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,876	25,639	365	46	7	8,535.2	80.5	0.9%
Crawford	1,642	7,103	48	17	0	9,918.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	38,372	313,667	1,519	256	21	7,260.6	48.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,202	38,836	726	147	19	12,557.6	164.8	1.3%
Door	2,361	13,283	191	18	5	8,416.8	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,609	17,467	538	18	14	8,225.8	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,117	17,448	315	26	0	9,194.5	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,672	45,956	300	98	10	10,371.9	95.2	0.9%
Florence	428	1,537	35	12	0	9,681.1	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,632	41,600	975	84	9	11,252.5	81.3	0.7%
Forest	912	4,004	69	22	3	9,932.5	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,539	21,857	648	79	5	8,666.5	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,801	15,278	100	13	6	7,598.2	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,499	7,232	411	17	3	7,853.1	89.1	1.1%
Iowa	1,808	10,380	88	9	1	7,597.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	483	2,391	112	19	18	8,264.9	325.1	3.9%
Jackson	2,552	9,078	39	22	0	12,361.9	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,628	33,655	906	71	6	9,008.6	83.9	0.9%
Juneau	2,906	14,015	80	17	1	10,799.8	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,383	68,467	1,967	280	17	8,549.6	166.4	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,367	6,857	161	26	1	11,465.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,843	49,643	624	74	0	10,008.2	62.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,385	6,038	144	7	1	8,203.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,900	6,578	154	31	12	9,607.1	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,824	9,989	188	56	17	9,929.0	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,028	28,068	1,068	60	15	8,757.2	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,368	47,158	1,312	169	32	9,921.3	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,921	16,891	373	61	2	9,577.9	149.0	1.6%
Marquette	1,285	5,746	167	21	5	8,356.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,744	2	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	95,698	438,386	8,496	1,174	34	10,132.4	124.3	1.2%
Monroe	4,128	17,586	84	30	1	8,974.3	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,183	15,798	421	47	7	11,018.9	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,235	14,053	130	57	4	9,007.9	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,573	78,442	2,156	183	7	10,105.0	99.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,410	38,023	865	72	6	8,386.1	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	782	2,890	20	7	0	10,640.9	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,358	15,564	835	33	5	8,065.3	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,638	17,765	61	42	0	8,287.0	95.7	1.2%
Portage	6,239	25,193	475	60	4	8,822.2	84.8	1.0%
Price	1,114	5,170	91	7	0	8,067.8	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,922	95,259	2,511	300	28	10,205.8	153.7	1.5%
Richland	1,237	8,081	35	13	0	6,984.0	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,885	69,273	1,467	145	13	8,663.8	90.5	1.0%
Rusk	1,234	4,638	40	16	1	8,490.4	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,112	33,623	237	37	6	8,154.9	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,432	7,755	31	17	0	8,642.6	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,518	16,265	483	69	11	10,950.1	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,506	43,536	692	122	7	10,920.8	106.5	1.0%
St. Croix	6,181	32,797	1,533	41	4	7,010.4	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,759	5,496	211	20	9	8,547.1	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,298	11,341	88	36	2	11,243.7	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,761	12,163	61	34	3	5,814.4	112.3	1.9%
Vilas	1,985	8,096	111	32	2	9,166.1	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,654	38,884	2,290	120	15	8,433.5	116.9	1.4%
Washburn	1,243	6,023	69	18	2	7,840.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,387	49,972	1,690	124	8	9,954.2	92.2	0.9%
Waukesha	39,405	160,671	3,918	452	40	9,884.8	113.4	1.1%
Waupaca	4,652	18,857	854	108	40	8,992.7	208.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,053	10,303	281	27	3	8,449.3	111.1	1.3%
Winnebago	16,632	74,980	2,545	170	19	9,821.4	100.4	1.0%
Wood	6,480	28,888	419	68	11	8,753.7	91.9	1.0%