774 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 774 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,309 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,448, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,735, 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 14.02%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 15.32%. 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 370 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 18 from a day prior and 91 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 834.

The state reported 79 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,635 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 438 in the past week.

DHS reported 35 new deaths. A total of 6,267 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,221 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 23.50, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 50.

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 18,142.4 cases per 100,000 residents (18,096.8). Dodge County has recorded 12,724.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,712.3). Jackson, Kewaunee, Brown, Barron, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,314.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,303.9).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,660.8 (up from 9,647.4).

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	1,564	7,601	159	11	4	7,631.1	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,170	6,672	66	16	0	7,375.7	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,282	18,508	145	75	0	11,512.6	163.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,537	68	19	0	6,985.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,035	125,006	2,288	211	24	11,537.3	81.1	0.7%
Buffalo	1,309	5,144	29	7	0	9,689.8	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,175	5,873	131	23	0	7,606.7	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,420	20,062	529	43	2	10,529.2	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	6,993	27,804	180	90	2	10,889.1	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,149	10,156	384	57	4	9,064.2	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,982	26,229	378	51	8	8,720.8	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,661	7,283	48	17	0	10,033.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,744	318,193	1,552	268	22	7,520.2	50.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,351	39,642	760	155	21	12,724.6	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,402	13,571	192	19	5	8,563.0	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,644	17,919	549	24	14	8,305.6	54.7	0.7%
Dunn	4,213	17,908	328	28	0	9,408.8	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,906	47,315	303	104	10	10,599.4	101.1	1.0%
Florence	432	1,569	34	12	0	9,771.5	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,865	42,889	1,037	91	8	11,477.9	88.0	0.8%
Forest	922	4,121	70	23	3	10,041.4	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,614	22,439	679	79	5	8,809.7	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,042	15,864	109	16	6	8,252.0	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,520	7,451	420	18	3	7,963.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,843	10,617	87	9	1	7,744.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	530	2,447	116	20	19	9,069.1	342.2	3.8%
Jackson	2,575	9,159	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,801	34,442	944	76	8	9,212.9	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,968	14,324	83	19	1	11,030.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,704	70,162	2,084	298	16	8,740.4	177.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,410	7,042	164	27	1	11,674.1	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,115	51,411	649	75	0	10,238.1	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,433	6,216	146	7	1	8,487.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,926	6,753	154	31	12	9,738.6	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,886	10,205	188	56	17	10,147.0	196.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	7,182	28,936	1,112	63	17	8,949.1	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,547	48,323	1,326	172	32	10,054.1	127.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,966	17,448	380	62	2	9,687.8	151.4	1.6%
Marquette	1,297	5,905	175	21	5	8,434.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,750	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,419	448,352	8,740	1,221	37	10,314.6	129.3	1.3%
Monroe	4,255	18,028	86	30	1	9,250.4	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,240	16,158	445	48	7	11,169.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,331	14,315	133	66	4	9,275.2	183.8	2.0%
Outagamie	19,008	81,376	2,276	191	10	10,341.7	103.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,567	39,164	889	74	6	8,563.8	83.7	1.0%
Pepin	800	2,968	20	7	0	10,885.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,428	15,882	882	33	6	8,233.5	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,831	18,279	65	44	0	8,726.7	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,411	25,834	511	64	3	9,065.5	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,145	5,300	95	7	0	8,292.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,184	96,806	2,559	314	29	10,340.0	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,267	8,007	34	13	0	7,153.3	73.4	1.0%
Rock	14,275	71,302	1,542	151	14	8,907.1	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,243	4,754	40	16	1	8,552.4	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,214	34,005	237	39	6	8,317.6	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,485	7,965	33	21	0	8,962.5	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,560	16,632	497	70	11	11,051.9	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,748	44,788	723	126	8	11,132.2	110.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,296	33,775	1,599	42	4	7,140.8	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,792	5,612	211	20	9	8,707.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,370	11,639	90	36	2	11,489.2	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,804	12,475	63	36	3	5,956.4	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,080	8,330	121	36	2	9,604.7	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,778	39,722	2,368	124	19	8,554.3	120.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,283	6,210	70	18	2	8,093.1	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,645	51,357	1,732	129	8	10,146.0	95.9	0.9%
Waukesha	40,220	165,407	4,069	470	43	10,089.3	117.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,737	19,477	865	111	42	9,157.0	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,088	10,517	306	30	3	8,593.3	123.5	1.4%
Winnebago	16,909	77,307	2,651	181	20	9,985.0	106.9	1.1%
Wood	6,648	29,736	438	72	12	8,980.6	97.3	1.1%