676 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 676 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,802 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,372, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,033, 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 13.65%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.85%. 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 350 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 20 from a day prior and 71 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 808.

The state reported 81 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,716 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 448 in the past week.

DHS reported 17 new deaths. A total of 6,284 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 22.57, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 35.4.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,735.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,724.6). Jackson, Kewaunee, Barron, Brown, 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, 10,323.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,314.6).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,672.5 (up from 9,660.8).

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	1,569	7,613	160	11	4	7,655.5	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,171	6,689	65	16	0	7,382.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,295	18,530	145	75	0	11,541.0	163.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,548	69	19	0	6,985.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,035	125,120	2,323	219	26	11,537.3	84.1	0.7%
Buffalo	1,309	5,151	29	7	0	9,689.8	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,176	5,886	131	23	0	7,613.1	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,425	20,095	533	43	2	10,538.9	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,000	27,847	180	90	2	10,900.0	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,149	10,170	384	57	4	9,064.2	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,990	26,271	378	51	8	8,734.8	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,662	7,308	48	17	0	10,039.3	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,861	318,659	1,555	267	22	7,542.3	50.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,361	39,654	763	155	21	12,735.8	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,403	13,586	193	19	5	8,566.5	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,646	17,951	552	24	14	8,310.2	54.7	0.7%
Dunn	4,217	17,935	331	28	0	9,417.8	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,923	47,417	304	104	10	10,615.9	101.1	1.0%
Florence	432	1,569	34	12	0	9,771.5	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,880	42,985	1,040	91	8	11,492.4	88.0	0.8%
Forest	924	4,123	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,617	22,473	679	79	5	8,815.4	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,066	15,916	109	16	6	8,317.1	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,520	7,475	420	18	3	7,963.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,844	10,630	87	9	1	7,748.2	37.8	0.5%
Iron	531	2,451	116	20	19	9,086.2	342.2	3.8%
Jackson	2,575	9,173	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,812	34,482	947	76	8	9,225.9	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,971	14,379	84	19	1	11,041.3	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,718	70,238	2,089	299	16	8,748.7	177.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,410	7,055	164	27	1	11,674.1	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,124	51,518	651	75	0	10,245.7	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,439	6,227	146	7	1	8,523.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,928	6,760	154	31	12	9,748.7	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,889	10,211	189	56	17	10,157.5	196.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	7,190	28,960	1,114	63	17	8,959.1	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,564	48,392	1,332	172	32	10,066.7	127.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,970	17,494	379	62	2	9,697.6	151.4	1.6%
Marquette	1,297	5,921	175	21	5	8,434.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,755	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,505	449,031	8,759	1,221	37	10,323.7	129.3	1.3%
Monroe	4,264	18,062	86	31	1	9,270.0	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,242	16,160	445	48	7	11,174.3	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,337	14,333	134	66	4	9,291.9	183.8	2.0%
Outagamie	19,027	81,587	2,277	191	10	10,352.0	103.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,577	39,201	889	74	6	8,575.1	83.7	1.0%
Pepin	801	2,973	20	7	0	10,899.4	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,431	15,913	881	33	6	8,240.7	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,851	18,339	65	44	0	8,772.2	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,419	25,866	514	64	3	9,076.8	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,148	5,310	95	7	0	8,314.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,207	96,945	2,559	314	29	10,351.8	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,274	8,021	34	14	0	7,192.9	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,289	71,429	1,544	151	14	8,915.9	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,245	4,757	40	16	1	8,566.1	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,217	34,053	238	39	6	8,322.4	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,493	7,984	33	21	0	9,010.8	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,563	16,655	497	70	11	11,059.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,756	44,840	728	126	8	11,139.2	110.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,302	33,877	1,601	42	4	7,147.6	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,792	5,620	211	20	9	8,707.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,374	11,654	90	36	2	11,502.8	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,805	12,487	63	36	3	5,959.7	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,080	8,351	121	36	2	9,604.7	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,776	39,751	2,369	125	19	8,552.4	121.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,287	6,221	70	18	2	8,118.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,663	51,423	1,739	131	8	10,159.4	97.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,279	165,673	4,084	471	43	10,104.1	118.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,753	19,516	865	111	42	9,187.9	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,090	10,528	307	30	3	8,601.5	123.5	1.4%
Winnebago	16,922	77,530	2,657	183	20	9,992.7	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,653	29,794	439	73	12	8,987.4	98.6	1.1%