5,477 New COVID-19 Cases in Past Week

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 503 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,186 processed tests.

The weekly case total is now lower than past single day totals. But still at a point higher than any week before the middle of July.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,477, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 4th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,078, 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 15.61%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 18.46%. 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 399 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 22 from a day prior and 171 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 953.

The state reported 34 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,302 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 417 in the past week.

DHS reported one new death. A total of 6,162 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 28, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 37.53.

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 12,679.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,678.7). 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, 10,270.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,261.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,605.6 (up from 9,596.9). 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	1,548	7,521	157	11	4	7,553.1	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,627	63	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,245	18,376	142	74	0	11,432.0	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,492	68	18	0	6,985.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,888	124,048	2,238	202	24	11,480.9	77.6	0.7%
Buffalo	1,306	5,087	29	7	0	9,667.6	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,158	5,821	131	23	0	7,496.6	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,397	19,863	513	41	2	10,484.5	79.6	0.8%
Chippewa	6,971	27,601	157	88	2	10,854.9	137.0	1.3%
Clark	3,141	10,081	384	57	4	9,041.2	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,954	26,045	374	50	8	8,671.8	87.5	1.0%
Crawford	1,657	7,196	48	17	0	10,009.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,270	317,224	1,552	264	22	7,430.5	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,311	39,394	750	154	21	12,679.8	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,391	13,467	192	19	5	8,523.8	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,638	17,771	542	23	14	8,291.9	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,188	17,774	325	26	0	9,353.0	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,856	46,849	303	104	10	10,550.8	101.1	1.0%
Florence	431	1,556	34	12	0	9,748.9	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,795	42,453	1,023	88	8	11,410.1	85.1	0.7%
Forest	918	4,076	69	23	3	9,997.8	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,600	22,226	671	79	5	8,783.0	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,971	15,645	104	16	6	8,059.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,516	7,364	415	18	3	7,942.2	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,830	10,544	87	9	1	7,689.4	37.8	0.5%
Iron	515	2,438	116	19	19	8,812.5	325.1	3.7%
Jackson	2,571	9,120	40	23	0	12,454.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,765	34,187	936	75	8	9,170.4	88.6	1.0%
Juneau	2,959	14,205	81	19	1	10,996.7	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,607	69,612	2,045	288	16	8,682.7	171.2	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,400	6,976	160	27	1	11,625.7	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,027	50,826	644	75	0	10,163.7	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,414	6,149	145	7	1	8,375.3	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,918	6,692	153	31	12	9,698.1	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,868	10,120	188	56	17	10,083.7	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,149	28,655	1,099	61	16	8,908.0	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,497	47,958	1,323	171	32	10,017.0	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,953	17,210	378	61	2	9,656.1	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,294	5,845	169	21	5	8,414.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,006	445,156	8,655	1,188	36	10,270.8	125.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,215	17,885	86	30	1	9,163.4	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,218	16,025	433	47	7	11,111.1	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,305	14,251	133	64	4	9,202.8	178.2	1.9%
Outagamie	18,914	80,438	2,244	186	10	10,290.5	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,529	38,745	882	73	6	8,520.8	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	797	2,938	20	7	0	10,845.0	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,413	15,805	869	33	6	8,197.4	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,771	18,144	63	43	0	8,590.0	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,358	25,578	501	63	3	8,990.5	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,130	5,259	95	7	0	8,183.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,131	96,260	2,549	314	29	10,312.9	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,259	7,960	35	13	0	7,108.2	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,171	70,741	1,539	150	14	8,842.2	93.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,240	4,719	40	16	1	8,531.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,177	33,923	239	37	6	8,258.6	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,463	7,893	32	20	0	8,829.7	120.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,551	16,507	493	70	11	11,030.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,653	44,330	709	125	8	11,049.2	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,257	33,508	1,581	42	4	7,096.6	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,784	5,579	211	20	9	8,668.6	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,358	11,547	90	36	2	11,448.2	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,793	12,364	62	36	3	5,920.0	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,062	8,251	117	36	2	9,521.6	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,737	39,435	2,349	124	19	8,514.3	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,270	6,157	71	18	2	8,011.1	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,581	50,843	1,723	127	8	10,098.4	94.4	0.9%
Waukesha	39,993	163,831	4,023	466	43	10,032.3	116.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,715	19,236	863	110	42	9,114.5	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,086	10,432	300	28	3	8,585.1	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,811	76,471	2,616	177	20	9,927.1	104.5	1.1%
Wood	6,616	29,464	437	72	12	8,937.4	97.3	1.1%