566 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 566 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,553 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,232, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 9th. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,035, 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 13.21%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.30%. 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, an increase of 1 from a day prior and decrease of 38 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 761.

The state reported 63 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,838 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 416 in the past week.

DHS reported 33 new deaths. A total of 6,317 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,223 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 20.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 33.73.

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 18,119.6 cases per 100,000 residents. Dodge County has recorded 12,741.4 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Jackson, Kewaunee, Barron, Brown, Fond du Lac, Trempealeau, Oconto, Sheboygan, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,346.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,336.8).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,696.6 (up from 9,686.8).

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	1,572	7,634	160	11	4	7,670.2	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,172	6,718	65	16	0	7,388.3	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,309	18,577	145	76	0	11,571.5	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,604	72	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,093	125,635	2,360	221	27	11,559.6	84.9	0.7%
Buffalo	1,312	5,175	29	7	0	9,712.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,188	5,915	132	23	0	7,690.8	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,436	20,195	540	43	2	10,560.3	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,013	27,958	180	90	2	10,920.3	140.1	1.3%
Clark	3,151	10,209	388	57	4	9,070.0	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,001	26,396	378	51	9	8,754.0	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,665	7,325	49	17	0	10,057.4	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,041	319,904	1,560	272	23	7,576.4	51.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,366	39,730	767	155	21	12,741.4	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,406	13,624	194	20	5	8,577.2	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,654	18,069	553	25	14	8,328.4	57.0	0.7%
Dunn	4,234	17,996	330	28	0	9,455.7	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,942	47,601	303	105	10	10,634.3	102.0	1.0%
Florence	433	1,569	34	12	0	9,794.2	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,920	43,154	1,042	92	8	11,531.1	89.0	0.8%
Forest	925	4,133	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,622	22,556	678	79	5	8,825.0	150.8	1.7%
Green	3,081	15,983	109	16	6	8,357.7	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,522	7,491	419	18	3	7,973.6	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,848	10,659	87	9	1	7,765.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	537	2,465	116	20	19	9,188.9	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,576	9,156	40	23	0	12,478.2	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,833	34,612	954	76	8	9,250.7	89.8	1.0%
Juneau	2,975	14,423	85	19	1	11,056.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,748	70,518	2,095	300	16	8,766.5	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,412	7,094	165	27	1	11,683.8	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,144	51,771	652	75	0	10,262.6	63.4	0.6%
Lafayette	1,443	6,253	147	7	1	8,547.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,930	6,787	155	31	12	9,758.8	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,895	10,256	189	57	17	10,178.6	200.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,204	29,064	1,117	63	17	8,976.5	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,607	48,597	1,333	175	32	10,098.6	129.9	1.3%
Marinette	3,977	17,570	380	62	3	9,714.7	151.4	1.6%
Marquette	1,297	5,943	178	21	5	8,434.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	794	3,755	2	11	0	18,119.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,721	450,686	8,791	1,223	37	10,346.6	129.5	1.3%
Monroe	4,281	18,122	86	31	1	9,306.9	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,248	16,220	443	48	7	11,190.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,348	14,373	134	66	4	9,322.5	183.8	2.0%
Outagamie	19,092	82,035	2,296	191	11	10,387.4	103.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,588	39,346	890	76	6	8,587.6	86.0	1.0%
Pepin	801	2,983	20	7	0	10,899.4	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,443	15,970	882	33	6	8,269.5	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,867	18,421	65	44	0	8,808.7	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,441	25,972	512	64	3	9,107.9	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,151	5,323	96	7	0	8,335.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,253	97,187	2,567	314	29	10,375.4	160.9	1.6%
Richland	1,281	8,026	34	14	0	7,232.4	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,315	71,729	1,540	153	14	8,932.1	95.5	1.1%
Rusk	1,246	4,780	40	16	1	8,573.0	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,240	34,110	237	39	6	8,359.1	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,500	8,028	33	21	0	9,053.1	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,574	16,703	497	70	11	11,085.8	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,802	45,080	740	128	8	11,179.3	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,324	34,011	1,610	42	4	7,172.6	47.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,793	5,643	211	20	9	8,712.3	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,375	11,686	92	36	2	11,506.2	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,814	12,474	63	36	3	5,989.4	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,090	8,396	121	36	2	9,650.9	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,784	39,912	2,377	125	19	8,560.2	121.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,287	6,243	70	18	2	8,118.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,683	51,643	1,749	131	8	10,174.3	97.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,394	166,370	4,114	478	43	10,132.9	119.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,763	19,606	874	112	42	9,207.2	216.5	2.4%
Waushara	2,093	10,559	309	30	3	8,613.9	123.5	1.4%
Winnebago	16,960	77,942	2,672	183	21	10,015.1	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,671	29,948	439	73	12	9,011.7	98.6	1.1%