938 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 938 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,545 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,827, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 5th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,353, below November 18th’s record rolling total of 133,019 tests and its lowest point since May 17th. 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 16.48%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 19.48%. 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 461 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 28 from a day prior and 122 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,017.

The state reported 55 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,197 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 463 in the past week.

DHS reported 11 new deaths. A total of 6,151 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,186 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 30.10, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 39.33.

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 (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,668.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,664.1). 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, 10,250.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,234.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,583.9 (up from 9,567.6). 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	1,542	7,490	157	11	4	7,523.8	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,601	64	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,225	18,319	140	74	0	11,388.4	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,059	6,464	69	18	0	6,965.3	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,850	123,785	2,218	202	24	11,466.3	77.6	0.7%
Buffalo	1,304	5,063	28	7	0	9,652.8	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,141	5,789	129	23	0	7,386.5	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,380	19,766	513	41	2	10,451.5	79.6	0.8%
Chippewa	6,954	27,512	157	87	2	10,828.4	135.5	1.3%
Clark	3,136	10,061	381	56	4	9,026.8	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,945	25,949	373	47	8	8,656.0	82.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,652	7,176	48	17	0	9,978.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,124	316,911	1,556	264	22	7,402.9	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,301	39,299	746	154	21	12,668.6	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,390	13,436	192	19	5	8,520.2	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,630	17,692	542	23	14	8,273.7	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,168	17,709	322	26	0	9,308.4	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,826	46,665	299	104	10	10,521.6	101.1	1.0%
Florence	430	1,551	34	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,781	42,256	1,016	88	8	11,396.6	85.1	0.7%
Forest	917	4,061	69	23	3	9,986.9	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,587	22,168	660	79	5	8,758.2	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,942	15,579	103	16	6	7,980.7	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,515	7,333	415	18	3	7,936.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,828	10,506	88	9	1	7,681.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	514	2,422	116	19	19	8,795.3	325.1	3.7%
Jackson	2,567	9,106	40	23	0	12,434.6	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,744	34,082	933	75	8	9,145.6	88.6	1.0%
Juneau	2,950	14,143	81	18	1	10,963.3	66.9	0.6%
Kenosha	14,567	69,399	2,039	287	16	8,658.9	170.6	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,398	6,950	160	27	1	11,616.0	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,008	50,660	648	75	0	10,147.6	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,405	6,130	144	7	1	8,322.0	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,916	6,664	153	31	12	9,688.0	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,863	10,083	188	56	17	10,066.1	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,136	28,547	1,094	61	16	8,891.8	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,460	47,816	1,328	171	32	9,989.5	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,949	17,146	379	61	2	9,646.3	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,291	5,826	169	21	5	8,395.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	96,811	443,936	8,644	1,186	36	10,250.2	125.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,204	17,827	85	30	1	9,139.5	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,211	15,988	433	47	7	11,092.7	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,292	14,194	131	64	4	9,166.6	178.2	1.9%
Outagamie	18,859	80,125	2,231	186	10	10,260.6	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,510	38,581	878	73	6	8,499.3	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	791	2,924	20	7	0	10,763.4	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,405	15,768	867	33	6	8,178.2	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,751	18,072	62	43	0	8,544.4	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,337	25,511	500	63	3	8,960.8	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,129	5,239	93	7	0	8,176.4	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,094	96,038	2,543	314	29	10,293.9	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,255	7,986	34	13	0	7,085.6	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,119	70,462	1,528	148	14	8,809.8	92.3	1.0%
Rusk	1,240	4,707	40	16	1	8,531.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,168	33,814	237	38	6	8,244.3	60.6	0.7%
Sawyer	1,455	7,862	32	19	0	8,781.5	114.7	1.3%
Shawano	4,548	16,479	490	69	11	11,022.8	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,644	44,218	705	125	8	11,041.3	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,244	33,373	1,582	42	4	7,081.9	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,781	5,556	211	20	9	8,654.0	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,344	11,507	90	36	2	11,400.5	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,791	12,322	62	36	3	5,913.4	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,053	8,228	115	36	2	9,480.1	166.2	1.8%
Walworth	8,733	39,334	2,340	124	19	8,510.5	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,266	6,135	70	18	2	7,985.9	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,555	50,700	1,720	128	8	10,079.1	95.2	0.9%
Waukesha	39,920	163,232	4,002	466	43	10,014.0	116.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,709	19,168	860	110	42	9,102.9	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,082	10,403	300	28	3	8,568.6	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,792	76,192	2,602	177	20	9,915.9	104.5	1.1%
Wood	6,600	29,338	437	72	12	8,915.8	97.3	1.1%