403 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 403 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,265 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,272, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,112, 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 13.30%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.51%. 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 347 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 3 from a day prior and 52 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 785.

The state reported 27 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,743 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 441 in the past week.

DHS reported no 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 21.37, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.3.

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 12,737.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,735.8). 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, 10,331.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,323.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,679.5 (up from 9,672.5).

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	7,620	160	11	4	7,655.5	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,171	6,702	64	16	0	7,382.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,299	18,557	145	75	0	11,549.7	163.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,573	69	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,051	125,346	2,335	219	26	11,543.5	84.1	0.7%
Buffalo	1,312	5,163	29	7	0	9,712.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,178	5,890	131	23	0	7,626.1	148.9	2.0%
Calumet	5,429	20,129	536	43	2	10,546.7	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,009	27,886	180	90	2	10,914.0	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,149	10,183	384	57	4	9,064.2	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	4,993	26,323	378	51	8	8,740.0	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,663	7,314	48	17	0	10,045.3	102.7	1.0%
Dane	39,946	319,186	1,557	267	22	7,558.4	50.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,362	39,685	765	155	21	12,737.0	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,404	13,604	193	19	5	8,570.1	67.7	0.8%
Douglas	3,648	17,971	551	24	14	8,314.7	54.7	0.7%
Dunn	4,220	17,962	328	28	0	9,424.5	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,927	47,482	303	104	10	10,619.8	101.1	1.0%
Florence	432	1,569	34	12	0	9,771.5	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,880	43,084	1,040	91	8	11,492.4	88.0	0.8%
Forest	924	4,126	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,618	22,508	677	79	5	8,817.4	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,076	15,939	109	16	6	8,344.2	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,520	7,482	420	18	3	7,963.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,844	10,640	87	9	1	7,748.2	37.8	0.5%
Iron	531	2,460	116	20	19	9,086.2	342.2	3.8%
Jackson	2,575	9,178	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,823	34,543	947	76	8	9,238.9	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,975	14,395	85	19	1	11,056.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,726	70,338	2,092	299	16	8,753.4	177.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,412	7,067	164	27	1	11,683.8	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,127	51,602	653	75	0	10,248.2	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,442	6,237	146	7	1	8,541.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,928	6,767	154	31	12	9,748.7	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,892	10,226	189	56	17	10,168.1	196.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	7,190	28,995	1,114	63	17	8,959.1	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,571	48,455	1,332	172	32	10,071.9	127.7	1.3%
Marinette	3,970	17,521	379	62	2	9,697.6	151.4	1.6%
Marquette	1,297	5,929	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	97,576	449,574	8,760	1,221	37	10,331.2	129.3	1.3%
Monroe	4,271	18,095	87	31	1	9,285.2	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,247	16,192	443	48	7	11,187.5	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,340	14,350	135	66	4	9,300.3	183.8	2.0%
Outagamie	19,049	81,771	2,288	191	10	10,364.0	103.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,580	39,258	890	74	6	8,578.5	83.7	1.0%
Pepin	801	2,977	20	7	0	10,899.4	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,434	15,936	881	33	6	8,247.9	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,857	18,383	65	44	0	8,785.9	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,425	25,900	514	64	3	9,085.3	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,148	5,316	95	7	0	8,314.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,223	97,036	2,565	314	29	10,360.0	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,275	8,026	34	14	0	7,198.5	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,300	71,533	1,546	151	14	8,922.7	94.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,245	4,766	40	16	1	8,566.1	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,230	34,125	238	39	6	8,343.2	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,494	7,996	33	21	0	9,016.8	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,566	16,672	497	70	11	11,066.4	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,762	44,897	730	126	8	11,144.4	110.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,303	33,937	1,603	42	4	7,148.8	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,792	5,623	211	20	9	8,707.5	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,374	11,667	90	36	2	11,502.8	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,808	12,493	63	36	3	5,969.6	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,080	8,367	121	36	2	9,604.7	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,777	39,806	2,369	125	19	8,553.3	121.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,287	6,236	70	18	2	8,118.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,664	51,497	1,742	131	8	10,160.2	97.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,297	165,942	4,085	471	43	10,108.6	118.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,756	19,531	865	111	42	9,193.7	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,090	10,535	307	30	3	8,601.5	123.5	1.4%
Winnebago	16,923	77,663	2,658	183	20	9,993.3	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,660	29,871	440	73	12	8,996.8	98.6	1.1%