Daily New COVID-19 Case Average Under 1,000

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 681 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 5,813 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 6,434, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,564, 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 18.09%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 20.45%. 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 489 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 36 in 24 hours and 148 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,017.

The state reported 69 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,090 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 536 in the past week.

DHS reported 35 new deaths. A total of 6,129 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 31.07, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 37.37.

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 12,6463.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,623.7). 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, 10,215.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,201.3).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,546.2 (up from 9,520.2). 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 last Wednesday. New data was not available by the time of publication. A record 1,519.4 was 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	1,538	7,455	157	11	4.00	7,504.30	53.7	0.70%
Ashland	1,162	6,573	65	16	0.00	7,325.20	100.9	1.40%
Barron	5,205	18,255	139	74	0.00	11,344.80	161.3	1.40%
Bayfield	1,056	6,437	64	18	0.00	6,945.50	118.4	1.70%
Brown	29,736	123,387	2,209	200	21.00	11,422.50	76.8	0.70%
Buffalo	1,295	5,015	30	7	0.00	9,586.20	51.8	0.50%
Burnett	1,134	5,761	127	23	0.00	7,341.20	148.9	2.00%
Calumet	5,353	19,631	512	40	2.00	10,399.00	77.7	0.70%
Chippewa	6,932	27,372	150	87	2.00	10,794.10	135.5	1.30%
Clark	3,128	10,026	376	56	4.00	9,003.80	161.2	1.80%
Columbia	4,921	25,846	370	46	8.00	8,614.00	80.5	0.90%
Crawford	1,648	7,151	47	17	0.00	9,954.70	102.7	1.00%
Dane	38,906	315,853	1,541	264	21.00	7,361.60	50	0.70%
Dodge	11,279	39,154	740	154	21.00	12,643.90	172.6	1.40%
Door	2,383	13,385	192	19	5.00	8,495.20	67.7	0.80%
Douglas	3,628	17,636	541	23	14.00	8,269.10	52.4	0.60%
Dunn	4,152	17,624	322	26	0.00	9,272.60	58.1	0.60%
Eau Claire	10,798	46,475	299	104	10.00	10,494.40	101.1	1.00%
Florence	430	1,553	34	12	0.00	9,726.30	271.4	2.80%
Fond du Lac	11,738	42,064	998	88	8.00	11,355.00	85.1	0.70%
Forest	914	4,050	70	23	3.00	9,954.30	250.5	2.50%
Grant	4,569	22,085	659	79	5.00	8,723.80	150.8	1.70%
Green	2,900	15,480	100	15	6.00	7,866.80	40.7	0.50%
Green Lake	1,511	7,299	418	18	3.00	7,916.00	94.3	1.20%
Iowa	1,825	10,468	88	9	1.00	7,668.40	37.8	0.50%
Iron	500	2,414	112	19	18.00	8,555.80	325.1	3.80%
Jackson	2,559	9,071	40	23	0.00	12,395.90	111.4	0.90%
Jefferson	7,713	33,943	921	74	8.00	9,108.90	87.4	1.00%
Juneau	2,933	14,106	80	18	1.00	10,900.10	66.9	0.60%
Kenosha	14,513	69,091	2,015	287	16.00	8,626.80	170.6	2.00%
Kewaunee	2,392	6,922	160	27	1.00	11,586.90	130.8	1.10%
La Crosse	11,979	50,369	639	75	0.00	10,123.10	63.4	0.60%
Lafayette	1,398	6,109	144	7	1.00	8,280.50	41.5	0.50%
Langlade	1,913	6,636	153	31	12.00	9,672.90	156.7	1.60%
Lincoln	2,850	10,058	188	56	17.00	10,020.40	196.9	2.00%
Manitowoc	7,099	28,379	1,087	61	16.00	8,845.70	76	0.90%
Marathon	13,427	47,616	1,315	170	32.00	9,965.00	126.2	1.30%
Marinette	3,939	17,067	374	61	2.00	9,621.90	149	1.50%
Marquette	1,289	5,808	167	21	5.00	8,382.10	136.6	1.60%
Menominee	791	3,754	2	11	0.00	18,051.10	251	1.40%
Milwaukee	96,484	442,198	8,604	1,184	36.00	10,215.60	125.4	1.20%
Monroe	4,183	17,754	85	30	1.00	9,093.90	65.2	0.70%
Oconto	4,198	15,922	428	47	7.00	11,058.40	123.8	1.10%
Oneida	3,274	14,167	130	62	4.00	9,116.50	172.6	1.90%
Outagamie	18,775	79,546	2,217	186	10.00	10,214.90	101.2	1.00%
Ozaukee	7,482	38,375	870	72	6.00	8,467.60	81.5	1.00%
Pepin	786	2,917	20	7	0.00	10,695.30	95.3	0.90%
Pierce	3,394	15,715	864	33	6.00	8,151.80	79.3	1.00%
Polk	3,717	17,980	61	43	0.00	8,467.00	97.9	1.20%
Portage	6,309	25,430	490	60	3.00	8,921.20	84.8	1.00%
Price	1,124	5,216	93	7	0.00	8,140.20	50.7	0.60%
Racine	20,051	95,811	2,530	312	29.00	10,271.90	159.8	1.60%
Richland	1,251	8,036	37	13	0.00	7,063.00	73.4	1.00%
Rock	14,034	70,111	1,522	148	14.00	8,756.70	92.3	1.10%
Rusk	1,240	4,692	40	16	1.00	8,531.70	110.1	1.30%
Sauk	5,153	33,739	237	37	6.00	8,220.30	59	0.70%
Sawyer	1,446	7,827	32	19	0.00	8,727.10	114.7	1.30%
Shawano	4,542	16,409	491	69	11.00	11,008.20	167.2	1.50%
Sheboygan	12,580	43,988	699	125	8.00	10,985.50	109.2	1.00%
St. Croix	6,226	33,199	1,564	42	4.00	7,061.40	47.6	0.70%
Taylor	1,771	5,543	211	20	9.00	8,605.40	97.2	1.10%
Trempealeau	3,334	11,463	90	36	2.00	11,366.40	122.7	1.10%
Vernon	1,783	12,297	62	36	3.00	5,887.00	118.9	2.00%
Vilas	2,035	8,199	115	35	2.00	9,396.90	161.6	1.70%
Walworth	8,707	39,219	2,329	124	19.00	8,485.10	120.8	1.40%
Washburn	1,257	6,093	70	18	2.00	7,929.10	113.5	1.40%
Washington	13,507	50,492	1,712	128	8.00	10,043.40	95.2	0.90%
Waukesha	39,735	162,535	3,969	464	41.00	9,967.60	116.4	1.20%
Waupaca	4,699	19,039	857	109	42.00	9,083.50	210.7	2.30%
Waushara	2,074	10,370	298	29	3.00	8,535.70	119.4	1.40%
Winnebago	16,723	75,735	2,584	176	20.00	9,875.20	103.9	1.10%
Wood	6,561	29,181	428	72	12.00	8,863.10	97.3	1.10%