656 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 656 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,498 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,311, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and is comparable to yesterday’s seven-day total. The seven-day testing total stands at 40,233, 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 10.72%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.17%. 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 304 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 27 from a day prior and decrease of 66 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 734.

The state reported 59 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,013 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 378 in the past week.

DHS reported 5 new deaths. A total of 6,399 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,231 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 20.40, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 35.87.

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 12,776.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,767.2). Jackson, Kewaunee, Barron, Brown, Fond du Lac, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,383.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,373.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,735.4 (up from 9,724.0).

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	1,577	7,699	159	11	4	7,694.6	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,175	6,748	65	16	0	7,407.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,336	18,677	147	76	0	11,630.3	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,064	6,632	73	19	0	6,998.2	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,181	126,534	2,394	222	27	11,593.4	85.3	0.7%
Buffalo	1,316	5,208	35	7	0	9,741.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,197	5,959	138	23	0	7,749.1	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,461	20,391	541	43	2	10,608.8	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,029	28,299	181	92	2	10,945.2	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,154	10,292	388	57	4	9,078.6	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,018	26,505	378	51	9	8,783.8	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,669	7,375	48	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,265	321,066	1,579	273	23	7,618.8	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,397	39,954	778	155	21	12,776.2	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,414	13,693	195	20	5	8,605.8	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,670	18,268	561	26	14	8,364.9	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,253	18,132	331	28	0	9,498.2	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,987	48,092	303	104	10	10,678.1	101.1	0.9%
Florence	435	1,580	34	12	0	9,839.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,958	43,648	1,054	93	8	11,567.8	90.0	0.8%
Forest	924	4,155	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,636	22,689	693	80	5	8,851.7	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,121	16,137	109	16	6	8,466.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,524	7,545	419	18	3	7,984.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,852	10,710	87	9	1	7,781.8	37.8	0.5%
Iron	539	2,474	117	20	19	9,223.1	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,574	9,235	40	23	0	12,468.5	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,860	34,769	949	111	14	9,282.6	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,981	14,475	86	19	1	11,078.5	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,798	71,148	2,116	299	15	8,796.2	177.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,413	7,132	166	27	1	11,688.6	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,192	52,706	653	78	0	10,303.1	65.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,458	6,294	148	7	1	8,635.9	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,821	156	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,902	10,343	193	58	17	10,203.2	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,237	29,497	1,122	63	17	9,017.6	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,652	49,035	1,343	176	33	10,132.0	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,979	17,987	383	63	3	9,719.6	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,303	5,982	177	21	5	8,473.1	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,772	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,073	455,141	8,835	1,231	37	10,383.8	130.3	1.3%
Monroe	4,307	18,258	93	31	1	9,363.5	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,256	16,319	444	48	7	11,211.2	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,358	14,504	135	67	4	9,350.4	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,215	82,829	2,311	194	11	10,454.3	105.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,622	39,686	894	77	6	8,626.1	87.1	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,005	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,464	16,093	891	33	6	8,319.9	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,905	18,538	67	44	0	8,895.2	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,463	26,145	522	64	3	9,139.0	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,154	5,352	97	7	0	8,357.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,317	97,806	2,582	320	29	10,408.1	163.9	1.6%
Richland	1,286	8,064	34	14	0	7,260.6	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,384	72,456	1,537	157	15	8,975.1	98.0	1.1%
Rusk	1,253	4,809	40	16	1	8,621.2	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,271	34,264	238	40	6	8,408.6	63.8	0.8%
Sawyer	1,510	8,096	33	21	0	9,113.4	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,592	16,811	500	70	11	11,129.4	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,866	45,704	756	128	8	11,235.2	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,370	34,230	1,614	43	4	7,224.8	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,798	5,679	211	21	9	8,736.6	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,384	11,770	92	36	2	11,536.9	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,828	12,534	64	36	3	6,035.6	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,119	8,478	124	36	2	9,784.8	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,827	40,156	2,379	126	19	8,602.1	122.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,292	6,295	71	18	2	8,149.9	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,727	52,055	1,763	134	8	10,207.0	99.6	1.0%
Waukesha	40,534	167,739	4,143	482	43	10,168.0	120.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,774	19,868	882	112	42	9,228.5	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,098	10,618	306	31	3	8,634.5	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,038	79,157	2,685	183	21	10,061.2	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,686	30,180	439	73	12	9,032.0	98.6	1.1%