Lowest One Day COVID-19 Case Total Since August 31st

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 405 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 4,086 processed tests. It’s the lowest total reported since August 31st.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,339, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 4th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,446, 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 15.06%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 17.9%. 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 412 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 13 from a day prior, but a decrease of 160 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 911.

The state reported 38 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,340 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 421 in the past week.

DHS reported four new deaths. A total of 6,166 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 23.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 39.83.

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 12,682 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,679.8). 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, 10,276.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,270.8).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,612.6 (up from 9,605.6). 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	1,551	7,536	157	11	4	7,567.7	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,637	64	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,254	18,388	142	74	0	11,451.6	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,499	68	18	0	6,985.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,889	124,254	2,239	202	24	11,481.2	77.6	0.7%
Buffalo	1,308	5,093	29	7	0	9,682.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,158	5,830	133	23	0	7,496.6	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,401	19,913	515	41	2	10,492.3	79.6	0.8%
Chippewa	6,970	27,624	157	89	2	10,853.3	138.6	1.3%
Clark	3,142	10,095	384	57	4	9,044.1	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,958	26,074	374	50	8	8,678.8	87.5	1.0%
Crawford	1,658	7,204	48	17	0	10,015.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,317	317,583	1,552	264	22	7,439.4	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,313	39,448	751	154	21	12,682.0	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,391	13,478	192	19	5	8,523.8	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,638	17,844	542	23	14	8,291.9	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,194	17,787	325	26	0	9,366.4	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,867	46,932	300	104	10	10,561.5	101.1	1.0%
Florence	431	1,557	34	12	0	9,748.9	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,818	42,493	1,025	88	8	11,432.4	85.1	0.7%
Forest	918	4,079	69	23	3	9,997.8	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,602	22,257	670	79	5	8,786.8	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,976	15,665	104	16	6	8,072.9	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,517	7,382	415	18	3	7,947.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,831	10,551	87	9	1	7,693.6	37.8	0.5%
Iron	516	2,441	116	19	19	8,829.6	325.1	3.7%
Jackson	2,571	9,124	40	23	0	12,454.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,769	34,247	936	75	8	9,175.1	88.6	1.0%
Juneau	2,958	14,221	82	19	1	10,993.0	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,611	69,723	2,045	288	16	8,685.1	171.2	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,400	6,990	160	27	1	11,625.7	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,034	50,893	642	75	0	10,169.6	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,417	6,158	145	7	1	8,393.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,918	6,702	153	31	12	9,698.1	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,869	10,127	188	56	17	10,087.2	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,149	28,722	1,099	61	16	8,908.0	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,505	48,037	1,322	171	32	10,022.9	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,954	17,246	378	61	2	9,658.5	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,296	5,859	169	21	5	8,427.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,062	445,765	8,655	1,188	36	10,276.8	125.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,219	17,911	86	30	1	9,172.1	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,219	16,054	433	47	7	11,113.7	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,308	14,269	133	64	4	9,211.1	178.2	1.9%
Outagamie	18,937	80,588	2,247	186	10	10,303.0	101.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,535	38,801	883	73	6	8,527.6	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	798	2,942	20	7	0	10,858.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,414	15,818	870	33	6	8,199.8	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,780	18,165	63	43	0	8,610.5	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,358	25,624	501	63	3	8,990.5	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,132	5,262	95	7	0	8,198.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,137	96,355	2,549	314	29	10,315.9	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,261	7,967	34	13	0	7,119.5	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,194	70,859	1,543	151	14	8,856.6	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,240	4,721	40	16	1	8,531.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,184	33,949	237	39	6	8,269.8	62.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,464	7,902	32	20	0	8,835.8	120.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,551	16,527	493	70	11	11,030.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,666	44,443	708	125	8	11,060.6	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,264	33,553	1,581	42	4	7,104.5	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,784	5,582	211	20	9	8,668.6	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,360	11,558	90	36	2	11,455.1	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,797	12,381	62	36	3	5,933.2	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,065	8,260	118	36	2	9,535.5	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,737	39,500	2,349	124	19	8,514.3	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,272	6,167	71	18	2	8,023.7	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,590	50,926	1,723	127	8	10,105.1	94.4	0.9%
Waukesha	40,038	164,080	4,030	466	43	10,043.6	116.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,716	19,253	862	110	42	9,116.4	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,086	10,445	300	28	3	8,585.1	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,828	76,627	2,622	177	20	9,937.2	104.5	1.1%
Wood	6,621	29,503	437	72	12	8,944.2	97.3	1.1%