Lowest New Case Total Since August 31st

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 543 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,718 processed tests. It’s the lowest case total reported since August 31st before that.

The seven-day case total stands at 7,204, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 11th. The seven-day testing total stands at 34,631, 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 20.8%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 21.38%. 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 572 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of two in 24 hours and a decrease of 114 from a week ago. The total decreased every day for the past week. Thirty days ago the total was 1,002.

The state reported 34 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,919 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 582 in the past week.

DHS reported one new death. A total of 6,055 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,180 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 30, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 40.37.

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 18,051.1 cases per 100,000 residents (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,606.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,595.7). 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, 10,190.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,182.3).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,520.2 (up from 9,510.8). 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	1,530	7,432	155	11	3	7,465.2	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,161	6,561	64	16	0	7,318.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,192	18,195	139	72	0	11,316.5	156.9	1.4%
Bayfield	1,055	6,427	67	18	0	6,939.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,677	122,938	2,190	199	20	11,399.8	76.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,292	5,006	30	7	0	9,564.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,125	5,744	127	23	0	7,283.0	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,337	19,534	507	39	2	10,367.9	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,917	27,274	150	86	2	10,770.8	133.9	1.2%
Clark	3,128	9,982	375	56	4	9,003.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,911	25,778	369	46	7	8,596.5	80.5	0.9%
Crawford	1,644	7,143	47	17	0	9,930.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	38,768	315,252	1,534	256	21	7,335.5	48.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,246	39,031	736	154	21	12,606.9	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,374	13,343	192	18	5	8,463.2	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,627	17,585	541	23	14	8,266.9	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,135	17,575	322	26	0	9,234.7	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,782	46,255	295	101	10	10,478.8	98.2	0.9%
Florence	430	1,546	34	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,718	41,919	992	87	8	11,335.6	84.2	0.7%
Forest	914	4,024	70	22	3	9,954.3	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,557	21,961	654	79	5	8,700.9	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,857	15,400	100	13	6	7,750.1	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,508	7,268	416	17	3	7,900.3	89.1	1.1%
Iowa	1,818	10,435	88	9	1	7,639.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	489	2,409	112	19	18	8,367.6	325.1	3.9%
Jackson	2,556	9,132	39	22	0	12,381.3	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,698	33,821	918	73	6	9,091.2	86.2	0.9%
Juneau	2,923	14,071	81	18	1	10,862.9	66.9	0.6%
Kenosha	14,457	68,852	1,993	280	17	8,593.5	166.4	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,379	6,891	161	27	1	11,523.9	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	11,918	50,045	628	74	0	10,071.6	62.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,392	6,073	144	7	1	8,245.0	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,909	6,607	153	31	12	9,652.6	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,843	10,031	187	56	17	9,995.8	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,076	28,269	1,076	61	15	8,817.0	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,405	47,406	1,310	170	32	9,948.7	126.2	1.3%
Marinette	3,933	16,990	374	61	2	9,607.2	149.0	1.6%
Marquette	1,290	5,785	166	21	5	8,388.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	791	3,754	2	11	0	18,051.1	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	96,244	440,841	8,549	1,180	35	10,190.2	124.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,159	17,686	84	30	1	9,041.7	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,195	15,871	422	47	7	11,050.5	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,265	14,134	131	62	4	9,091.4	172.6	1.9%
Outagamie	18,724	79,152	2,186	185	7	10,187.2	100.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,457	38,244	868	72	6	8,439.3	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	784	2,906	20	7	0	10,668.1	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,381	15,684	846	33	6	8,120.6	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,696	17,918	61	42	0	8,419.1	95.7	1.1%
Portage	6,281	25,341	489	60	4	8,881.6	84.8	1.0%
Price	1,122	5,201	93	7	0	8,125.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,006	95,617	2,513	302	28	10,248.8	154.7	1.5%
Richland	1,248	8,079	36	13	0	7,046.1	73.4	1.0%
Rock	13,997	69,830	1,485	148	13	8,733.7	92.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,236	4,678	40	16	1	8,504.2	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,143	33,679	236	37	6	8,204.4	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,441	7,808	31	17	0	8,697.0	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,536	16,358	482	69	11	10,993.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,565	43,811	692	125	7	10,972.4	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,210	33,078	1,547	41	4	7,043.3	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,768	5,522	211	20	9	8,590.9	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,322	11,412	88	36	2	11,325.5	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,776	12,247	62	35	3	5,863.9	115.6	2.0%
Vilas	2,021	8,166	113	32	2	9,332.3	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,698	39,099	2,303	122	16	8,476.3	118.9	1.4%
Washburn	1,256	6,067	70	18	2	7,922.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,451	50,298	1,708	125	8	10,001.8	92.9	0.9%
Waukesha	39,649	161,804	3,974	457	41	9,946.0	114.6	1.2%
Waupaca	4,673	18,954	860	108	40	9,033.3	208.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,064	10,335	286	28	3	8,494.5	115.2	1.4%
Winnebago	16,702	75,459	2,571	175	19	9,862.8	103.3	1.0%
Wood	6,537	29,074	427	68	12	8,830.7	91.9	1.0%