1,239 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,239 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 7,414 processed tests. The first time more than 1,000 cases were reported in the past five days.

The seven-day case total stands at 6,155, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,534, 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 17.32%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 19.92%. 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 489 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, no change over 24 hours, but a decrease of 105 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,017.

The state reported 52 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,142 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 508 in the past week.

DHS reported 11 new deaths. A total of 6,140 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 30.97, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 38.50.

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 18,073.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,051.1). Dodge County has recorded 12,664.1 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,646.9). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Chippewa, Calumet, Outagamie and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,234.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,215.6).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,567.6 (up from 9,546.2). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 265.1 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks according to the DHS activity level report released Wednesday. 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	1,541	7,475	157	11	4	7,518.9	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,167	6,589	63	16	0	7,356.7	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,217	18,290	140	74	0	11,371.0	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,057	6,456	67	18	0	6,952.1	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,792	123,630	2,215	202	24	11,444.0	77.6	0.7%
Buffalo	1,302	5,057	28	7	0	9,638.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,135	5,768	128	23	0	7,347.7	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,370	19,728	515	40	2	10,432.0	77.7	0.7%
Chippewa	6,944	27,456	150	87	2	10,812.8	135.5	1.3%
Clark	3,131	10,045	380	56	4	9,012.4	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,934	25,906	371	47	8	8,636.7	82.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,650	7,168	47	17	0	9,966.8	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,039	316,434	1,554	264	22	7,386.8	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,297	39,238	744	154	21	12,664.1	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,391	13,417	190	19	5	8,523.8	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,629	17,665	542	23	14	8,271.4	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,156	17,661	322	26	0	9,281.6	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,815	46,592	297	104	10	10,510.9	101.1	1.0%
Florence	430	1,551	34	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,760	42,168	1,012	88	8	11,376.3	85.1	0.7%
Forest	916	4,056	70	23	3	9,976.0	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,576	22,128	658	79	5	8,737.2	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,916	15,514	101	15	6	7,910.2	40.7	0.5%
Green Lake	1,513	7,315	417	18	3	7,926.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,827	10,491	88	9	1	7,676.8	37.8	0.5%
Iron	509	2,419	113	19	18	8,709.8	325.1	3.7%
Jackson	2,560	9,081	40	23	0	12,400.7	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,727	34,039	924	74	9	9,125.5	87.4	1.0%
Juneau	2,941	14,119	80	18	1	10,929.8	66.9	0.6%
Kenosha	14,546	69,259	2,031	286	16	8,646.4	170.0	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,396	6,933	160	27	1	11,606.3	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	11,996	50,514	644	75	0	10,137.5	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,401	6,117	144	7	1	8,298.3	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,915	6,653	153	31	12	9,683.0	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,860	10,069	188	56	17	10,055.6	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,125	28,465	1,092	61	16	8,878.1	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,449	47,735	1,326	170	32	9,981.4	126.2	1.3%
Marinette	3,943	17,110	376	61	2	9,631.6	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,290	5,821	167	21	5	8,388.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	96,665	443,138	8,621	1,185	36	10,234.7	125.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,193	17,796	85	30	1	9,115.6	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,203	15,962	431	47	7	11,071.6	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,285	14,195	130	62	4	9,147.1	172.6	1.9%
Outagamie	18,830	79,848	2,219	186	10	10,244.8	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,503	38,492	876	73	6	8,491.4	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	789	2,921	20	7	0	10,736.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,400	15,744	863	33	6	8,166.2	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,732	18,036	63	43	0	8,501.1	97.9	1.2%
Portage	6,321	25,474	500	62	3	8,938.2	87.7	1.0%
Price	1,127	5,226	93	7	0	8,161.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,077	95,945	2,542	314	29	10,285.2	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,252	8,047	36	13	0	7,068.7	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,086	70,312	1,523	148	14	8,789.2	92.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,240	4,702	40	16	1	8,531.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,164	33,797	240	38	6	8,237.9	60.6	0.7%
Sawyer	1,452	7,844	32	19	0	8,763.4	114.7	1.3%
Shawano	4,543	16,431	491	69	11	11,010.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,621	44,147	705	125	8	11,021.3	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,240	33,278	1,568	42	4	7,077.3	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,778	5,553	211	20	9	8,639.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,339	11,483	90	36	2	11,383.5	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,788	12,311	62	36	3	5,903.5	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,045	8,217	115	35	2	9,443.1	161.6	1.7%
Walworth	8,719	39,292	2,340	124	19	8,496.8	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,260	6,117	70	18	2	7,948.0	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,541	50,608	1,717	128	8	10,068.7	95.2	0.9%
Waukesha	39,832	162,921	3,988	466	43	9,991.9	116.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,702	19,109	857	110	42	9,089.3	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,078	10,389	300	28	3	8,552.1	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,767	75,979	2,587	176	20	9,901.1	103.9	1.0%
Wood	6,583	29,281	428	72	12	8,892.8	97.3	1.1%