733 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 733 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 5,547 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,612, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 10th. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,971, 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 14.43%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 15.95%. 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 388 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 3 from a day prior and 101 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 875.

The state reported 58 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,556 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 414 in the past week.

DHS reported 18 new deaths. A total of 6,232 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,218 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 24, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 36.5.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 19th worst in the state. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 18,096.8 cases per 100,000 residents (18,073.9). Dodge County has recorded 12,712.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,707.8). Jackson, Kewaunee, Brown, Barron, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Shawano, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Calumet, Racine and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,303.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,294.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,647.4 (up from 9,634.7).

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	1,562	7,568	159	11	4	7,621.4	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,168	6,660	66	16	0	7,363.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,270	18,477	144	75	0	11,486.5	163.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,529	68	18	0	6,985.0	118.4	1.7%
Brown	30,013	124,865	2,282	203	24	11,528.9	78.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,308	5,133	29	7	0	9,682.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,168	5,862	134	23	0	7,561.3	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,410	20,022	525	43	2	10,509.8	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	6,989	27,758	158	90	2	10,882.9	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,148	10,140	386	57	4	9,061.3	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,973	26,181	374	50	8	8,705.0	87.5	1.0%
Crawford	1,661	7,276	48	17	0	10,033.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,584	317,772	1,550	267	22	7,489.9	50.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,340	39,585	756	154	21	12,712.3	172.6	1.4%
Door	2,401	13,562	191	19	5	8,559.4	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,643	17,900	548	24	14	8,303.3	54.7	0.7%
Dunn	4,205	17,873	327	27	0	9,391.0	60.3	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,895	47,223	304	104	10	10,588.7	101.1	1.0%
Florence	432	1,569	34	12	0	9,771.5	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,846	42,774	1,029	89	8	11,459.5	86.1	0.8%
Forest	921	4,103	70	23	3	10,030.5	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,608	22,395	675	79	5	8,798.3	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,023	15,811	108	16	6	8,200.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,520	7,431	418	18	3	7,963.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,840	10,593	87	9	1	7,731.4	37.8	0.5%
Iron	529	2,447	116	20	19	9,052.0	342.2	3.8%
Jackson	2,575	9,115	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,785	34,395	943	76	8	9,194.0	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,967	14,281	83	19	1	11,026.5	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,681	70,042	2,072	296	16	8,726.7	175.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,410	7,034	162	27	1	11,674.1	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,093	51,273	647	75	0	10,219.5	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,430	6,207	146	7	1	8,470.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,923	6,740	154	31	12	9,723.4	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,877	10,179	188	56	17	10,115.3	196.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	7,178	28,889	1,110	61	17	8,944.1	76.0	0.8%
Marathon	13,532	48,257	1,326	171	32	10,043.0	126.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,966	17,411	379	61	2	9,687.8	149.0	1.5%
Marquette	1,297	5,893	175	21	5	8,434.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	793	3,750	2	11	0	18,096.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,318	447,657	8,724	1,218	36	10,303.9	129.0	1.3%
Monroe	4,247	17,994	86	30	1	9,233.0	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,240	16,131	444	47	7	11,169.1	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,329	14,325	133	66	4	9,269.6	183.8	2.0%
Outagamie	18,983	81,150	2,272	189	10	10,328.1	102.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,557	39,006	888	73	6	8,552.5	82.6	1.0%
Pepin	800	2,960	20	7	0	10,885.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,421	15,873	880	33	6	8,216.6	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,811	18,252	64	44	0	8,681.1	100.2	1.2%
Portage	6,395	25,773	505	63	3	9,042.8	89.1	1.0%
Price	1,144	5,292	95	7	0	8,285.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,171	96,735	2,556	314	29	10,333.3	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,266	8,000	34	13	0	7,147.7	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,253	71,169	1,541	151	14	8,893.4	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,241	4,742	40	16	1	8,538.6	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,210	34,000	238	39	6	8,311.3	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,479	7,953	33	21	0	8,926.3	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,557	16,614	496	70	11	11,044.6	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,738	44,693	721	126	8	11,123.4	110.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,294	33,738	1,597	42	4	7,138.6	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,792	5,605	211	20	9	8,707.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,364	11,619	90	36	2	11,468.7	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,804	12,455	62	36	3	5,956.4	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,075	8,313	119	36	2	9,581.6	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,766	39,673	2,365	124	19	8,542.6	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,278	6,202	71	18	2	8,061.6	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,630	51,229	1,727	129	8	10,134.9	95.9	0.9%
Waukesha	40,190	165,048	4,053	468	43	10,081.7	117.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,731	19,406	862	111	42	9,145.4	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,087	10,500	307	28	3	8,589.2	115.2	1.3%
Winnebago	16,886	77,092	2,649	179	20	9,971.4	105.7	1.1%
Wood	6,639	29,666	437	72	12	8,968.5	97.3	1.1%