752 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 752 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,504 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,645, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 5th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,419, 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 15.94%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 18.9%. 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 421 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 40 from a day prior and 149 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 988.

The state reported 71 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,268 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 444 in the past week.

DHS reported 10 new deaths. A total of 6,161 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,188 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 29.03, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 38.93.

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 12,678.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,668.6). 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, 10,261.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,250.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,596.9 (up from 9,583.9). 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	1,543	7,503	157	11	4	7,528.7	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,615	63	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,236	18,352	142	74	0	11,412.4	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,059	6,473	69	18	0	6,965.3	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,878	123,935	2,232	202	24	11,477.0	77.6	0.7%
Buffalo	1,304	5,068	28	7	0	9,652.8	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,148	5,806	129	23	0	7,431.9	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,390	19,814	514	41	2	10,470.9	79.6	0.8%
Chippewa	6,961	27,571	157	88	2	10,839.3	137.0	1.3%
Clark	3,139	10,076	383	56	4	9,035.4	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,950	25,996	374	50	8	8,664.8	87.5	1.0%
Crawford	1,655	7,184	48	17	0	9,997.0	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,212	316,900	1,547	264	22	7,419.5	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,310	39,351	747	154	21	12,678.7	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,390	13,458	192	19	5	8,520.2	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,633	17,746	542	23	14	8,280.5	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,176	17,737	322	26	0	9,326.2	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,837	46,765	302	104	10	10,532.3	101.1	1.0%
Florence	431	1,552	34	12	0	9,748.9	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,794	42,373	1,023	88	8	11,409.2	85.1	0.7%
Forest	918	4,073	69	23	3	9,997.8	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,593	22,193	668	79	5	8,769.6	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,964	15,621	103	16	6	8,040.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,515	7,353	415	18	3	7,936.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,830	10,525	87	9	1	7,689.4	37.8	0.5%
Iron	515	2,432	116	19	19	8,812.5	325.1	3.7%
Jackson	2,571	9,114	40	23	0	12,454.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,757	34,127	936	75	8	9,160.9	88.6	1.0%
Juneau	2,955	14,188	81	19	1	10,981.9	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,590	69,499	2,043	288	16	8,672.6	171.2	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,399	6,963	160	27	1	11,620.8	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,012	50,757	647	75	0	10,151.0	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,407	6,136	145	7	1	8,333.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,918	6,677	153	31	12	9,698.1	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,867	10,103	188	56	17	10,080.2	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,140	28,587	1,097	61	16	8,896.8	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,484	47,880	1,320	171	32	10,007.3	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,951	17,185	379	61	2	9,651.2	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,294	5,843	170	21	5	8,414.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	96,918	444,582	8,653	1,188	36	10,261.5	125.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,212	17,862	86	30	1	9,156.9	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,218	16,011	433	47	7	11,111.1	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,301	14,234	133	64	4	9,191.7	178.2	1.9%
Outagamie	18,896	80,272	2,240	186	10	10,280.7	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,519	38,697	881	73	6	8,509.5	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	797	2,934	20	7	0	10,845.0	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,410	15,786	867	33	6	8,190.2	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,759	18,113	63	43	0	8,562.6	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,351	25,549	499	63	3	8,980.6	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,130	5,245	95	7	0	8,183.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,122	96,150	2,547	314	29	10,308.2	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,257	7,950	35	13	0	7,096.9	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,140	70,577	1,535	150	14	8,822.9	93.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,240	4,714	40	16	1	8,531.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,173	33,854	239	37	6	8,252.2	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,461	7,879	32	20	0	8,817.7	120.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,551	16,488	493	70	11	11,030.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,650	44,287	705	125	8	11,046.6	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,251	33,456	1,581	42	4	7,089.8	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,784	5,564	211	20	9	8,668.6	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,354	11,529	90	36	2	11,434.6	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,793	12,332	62	36	3	5,920.0	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,058	8,241	116	36	2	9,503.1	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,734	39,386	2,342	124	19	8,511.4	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,269	6,148	71	18	2	8,004.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,574	50,783	1,722	127	8	10,093.2	94.4	0.9%
Waukesha	39,978	163,546	4,021	466	43	10,028.5	116.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,713	19,207	863	110	42	9,110.6	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,084	10,418	300	28	3	8,576.8	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,803	76,350	2,616	177	20	9,922.4	104.5	1.1%
Wood	6,614	29,411	436	72	12	8,934.7	97.3	1.1%