Over 25,000 Hospitalized With COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 681 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 4,168 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 6,790, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,617, 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 19.06%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 20.92%. 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 525 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 47 in 24 hours and 132 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 999.

The state reported 102 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,021 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 561 in the past week.

DHS reported 39 new deaths. A total of 6,094 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 31.23, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 38.87.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 19th 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 12,623.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,606.9). 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, 10,201.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,190.2).

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	1,533	7,443	157	11	4	7,479.9	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,162	6,564	64	16	0	7,325.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,195	18,209	139	73	0	11,323.0	159.1	1.4%
Bayfield	1,055	6,439	67	18	0	6,939.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,710	123,186	2,192	199	21	11,412.5	76.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,292	5,007	30	7	0	9,564.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,130	5,749	128	23	0	7,315.3	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,341	19,582	513	39	2	10,375.7	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,922	27,317	150	86	2	10,778.6	133.9	1.2%
Clark	3,128	10,000	376	56	4	9,003.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,916	25,799	369	46	8	8,605.2	80.5	0.9%
Crawford	1,646	7,147	47	17	0	9,942.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	38,807	315,494	1,537	264	21	7,342.9	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,261	39,047	738	154	21	12,623.7	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,377	13,354	192	18	5	8,473.9	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,629	17,618	540	23	14	8,271.4	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,137	17,585	323	26	0	9,239.1	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,788	46,377	295	104	10	10,484.7	101.1	1.0%
Florence	430	1,549	34	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,721	41,946	997	88	8	11,338.6	85.1	0.8%
Forest	914	4,037	70	22	3	9,954.3	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,560	21,992	655	79	5	8,706.6	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,862	15,408	100	15	6	7,763.7	40.7	0.5%
Green Lake	1,511	7,280	417	17	3	7,916.0	89.1	1.1%
Iowa	1,821	10,445	88	9	1	7,651.6	37.8	0.5%
Iron	497	2,414	112	19	18	8,504.4	325.1	3.8%
Jackson	2,557	9,147	39	22	0	12,386.2	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,701	33,875	925	74	8	9,094.8	87.4	1.0%
Juneau	2,929	14,077	81	18	1	10,885.2	66.9	0.6%
Kenosha	14,494	68,952	2,000	282	17	8,615.5	167.6	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,388	6,902	160	27	1	11,567.5	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	11,945	50,154	634	75	0	10,094.4	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,395	6,083	144	7	1	8,262.7	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,908	6,623	153	31	12	9,647.6	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,847	10,043	188	56	17	10,009.8	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,083	28,307	1,080	61	15	8,825.7	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,411	47,550	1,312	170	32	9,953.2	126.2	1.3%
Marinette	3,937	17,016	374	61	2	9,617.0	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,289	5,792	167	21	5	8,382.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	791	3,752	2	11	0	18,051.1	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	96,349	441,375	8,588	1,180	36	10,201.3	124.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,169	17,717	86	30	1	9,063.4	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,197	15,903	427	47	7	11,055.8	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,268	14,153	130	62	4	9,099.8	172.6	1.9%
Outagamie	18,756	79,331	2,199	186	8	10,204.6	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,473	38,315	869	72	6	8,457.4	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	784	2,909	20	7	0	10,668.1	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,387	15,691	854	33	6	8,135.0	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,703	17,934	61	42	0	8,435.1	95.7	1.1%
Portage	6,297	25,372	487	60	3	8,904.3	84.8	1.0%
Price	1,122	5,203	93	7	0	8,125.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,032	95,634	2,513	308	29	10,262.1	157.8	1.5%
Richland	1,248	8,072	36	13	0	7,046.1	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,007	69,943	1,484	148	14	8,739.9	92.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,238	4,686	40	16	1	8,518.0	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,152	33,690	237	37	6	8,218.7	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,441	7,820	32	19	0	8,697.0	114.7	1.3%
Shawano	4,539	16,382	490	69	11	11,001.0	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,574	43,891	696	125	8	10,980.2	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,224	33,121	1,553	42	4	7,059.2	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,770	5,530	211	20	9	8,600.6	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,329	11,436	89	36	2	11,349.4	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,782	12,261	62	35	3	5,883.7	115.6	2.0%
Vilas	2,028	8,176	113	35	2	9,364.6	161.6	1.7%
Walworth	8,701	39,134	2,316	122	17	8,479.3	118.9	1.4%
Washburn	1,256	6,073	70	18	2	7,922.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,477	50,386	1,708	126	8	10,021.1	93.7	0.9%
Waukesha	39,708	162,118	3,991	460	41	9,960.8	115.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,680	18,988	866	108	40	9,046.8	208.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,073	10,358	294	28	3	8,531.6	115.2	1.4%
Winnebago	16,718	75,598	2,576	175	19	9,872.2	103.3	1.0%
Wood	6,548	29,123	426	71	12	8,845.5	95.9	1.1%