657 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 657 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 4,885 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,118, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 4th. The seven-day testing total stands at 33,568, 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 15.25%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 16.71%. 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.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 385 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 26 from a day prior and 104 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 875.

The state reported 76 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,498 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 408 in the past week.

DHS reported 10 new deaths. A total of 6,214 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,215 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 24.8, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 37.1.

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 12,707.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,692.1). 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, 10,294.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,286).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,634.7 (up from 9,623.4). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 199.9 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	1,555	7,556	159	11	4	7,587.2	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,641	66	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,267	18,448	142	74	0	11,479.9	161.3	1.4%
Bayfield	1,061	6,508	69	18	0	6,978.4	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,988	124,581	2,262	203	24	11,519.3	78.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,308	5,106	29	7	0	9,682.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,166	5,846	133	23	0	7,548.4	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,406	19,978	522	42	2	10,502.0	81.6	0.8%
Chippewa	6,984	27,715	159	90	2	10,875.1	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,144	10,121	385	57	4	9,049.8	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,963	26,134	375	50	8	8,687.5	87.5	1.0%
Crawford	1,660	7,231	48	17	0	10,027.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,440	317,483	1,548	264	22	7,462.7	50.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,336	39,498	753	154	21	12,707.8	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,398	13,525	191	19	5	8,548.7	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,641	17,886	543	23	14	8,298.8	52.4	0.6%
Dunn	4,204	17,844	327	27	0	9,388.7	60.3	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,884	47,107	301	104	10	10,578.0	101.1	1.0%
Florence	431	1,562	34	12	0	9,748.9	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,838	42,671	1,028	89	8	11,451.7	86.1	0.8%
Forest	920	4,095	69	23	3	10,019.6	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,605	22,342	676	79	5	8,792.5	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,011	15,776	108	16	6	8,167.9	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,518	7,416	416	18	3	7,952.6	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,839	10,578	87	9	1	7,727.2	37.8	0.5%
Iron	524	2,442	116	20	19	8,966.5	342.2	3.8%
Jackson	2,573	9,101	40	23	0	12,463.7	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,782	34,338	942	76	8	9,190.4	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,963	14,257	83	19	1	11,011.6	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,646	69,922	2,066	293	16	8,705.9	174.2	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,406	7,017	162	27	1	11,654.7	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,086	51,153	642	75	0	10,213.5	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,429	6,187	145	7	1	8,464.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,922	6,723	154	31	12	9,718.4	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,872	10,148	188	56	17	10,097.7	196.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	7,169	28,834	1,109	61	17	8,932.9	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,522	48,179	1,326	171	32	10,035.5	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,962	17,323	379	61	2	9,678.0	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,296	5,880	176	21	5	8,427.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,750	2	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,229	446,973	8,706	1,215	36	10,294.5	128.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,244	17,968	86	30	1	9,226.5	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,238	16,098	444	47	7	11,163.8	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,319	14,293	134	64	4	9,241.8	178.2	1.9%
Outagamie	18,957	80,916	2,265	188	10	10,313.9	102.3	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,548	38,948	886	73	6	8,542.3	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	800	2,953	20	7	0	10,885.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,417	15,850	878	33	6	8,207.0	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,796	18,219	64	44	0	8,646.9	100.2	1.2%
Portage	6,376	25,698	504	63	3	9,016.0	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,137	5,276	95	7	0	8,234.4	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,162	96,571	2,553	314	29	10,328.7	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,265	7,985	34	13	0	7,142.1	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,230	71,063	1,539	151	14	8,879.0	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,241	4,735	40	16	1	8,538.6	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,193	33,968	237	39	6	8,284.1	62.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,471	7,928	35	21	0	8,878.0	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,556	16,577	495	70	11	11,042.2	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,720	44,626	717	125	8	11,107.7	109.2	1.0%
St. Croix	6,284	33,677	1,594	42	4	7,127.2	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,785	5,593	211	20	9	8,673.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,362	11,596	90	36	2	11,461.9	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,802	12,438	62	36	3	5,949.7	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,073	8,296	119	36	2	9,572.4	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,758	39,611	2,360	124	19	8,534.8	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,274	6,182	71	18	2	8,036.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,614	51,121	1,722	129	8	10,123.0	95.9	0.9%
Waukesha	40,149	164,673	4,038	467	43	10,071.4	117.1	1.2%
Waupaca	4,725	19,342	862	110	42	9,133.8	212.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,086	10,473	306	28	3	8,585.1	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,868	76,875	2,636	179	20	9,960.8	105.7	1.1%
Wood	6,631	29,602	437	72	12	8,957.7	97.3	1.1%