689 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 689 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 3,890 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,324, 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 39,321, 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 11.00%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.19%. 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, a unchanged from a day prior and a decrease of 46 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 718.

The state reported 75 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,088 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 372 in the past week.

DHS reported 13 new deaths. A total of 6,412 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,237 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 20.03, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.27.

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 12,796.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,776.2). 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, 10,391.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,383.8).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,747.3 (up from 9,735.4).

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	1,578	7,715	161	10	5	7,699.4	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,175	6,758	66	16	0	7,407.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,353	18,703	147	76	0	11,667.4	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,064	6,636	74	19	0	6,998.2	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,176	126,718	2,447	223	27	11,591.5	85.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,318	5,207	34	7	0	9,756.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,200	5,969	138	23	0	7,768.5	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,467	20,434	543	43	3	10,620.5	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,039	28,347	181	92	2	10,960.8	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,155	10,308	388	57	4	9,081.5	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,024	26,519	378	51	9	8,794.3	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,667	7,385	50	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,428	321,518	1,582	273	23	7,649.6	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,415	40,023	775	155	21	12,796.4	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,417	13,729	195	20	5	8,616.4	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,674	18,316	562	26	14	8,374.0	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,255	18,150	331	28	0	9,502.6	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,002	48,106	303	104	10	10,692.7	101.1	0.9%
Florence	434	1,572	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,973	43,726	1,059	93	8	11,582.3	90.0	0.8%
Forest	925	4,160	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,643	22,724	692	80	5	8,865.1	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,146	16,178	110	16	6	8,534.1	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,557	418	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,853	10,726	87	9	1	7,786.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	540	2,476	117	20	19	9,240.2	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,575	9,237	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,863	34,791	949	111	14	9,286.1	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,981	14,480	86	19	1	11,078.5	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,817	71,223	2,126	300	15	8,807.5	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,141	166	27	1	11,693.5	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,211	52,800	654	78	0	10,319.2	65.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,459	6,305	149	7	1	8,641.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,828	156	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,907	10,359	193	58	17	10,220.8	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,239	29,510	1,124	64	17	9,020.1	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,670	49,101	1,344	176	33	10,145.4	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,007	383	63	3	9,724.5	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,306	5,988	179	21	5	8,492.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,773	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,143	455,632	8,851	1,237	37	10,391.2	131.0	1.3%
Monroe	4,314	18,286	93	31	1	9,378.7	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,261	16,338	446	48	7	11,224.4	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,374	14,526	135	67	4	9,394.9	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,236	83,026	2,339	195	12	10,465.7	106.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,626	39,721	895	77	6	8,630.6	87.1	1.0%
Pepin	806	2,997	20	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,470	16,112	891	33	6	8,334.3	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,909	18,555	67	44	0	8,904.3	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,472	26,133	523	64	3	9,151.7	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,156	5,357	97	7	0	8,372.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,331	97,787	2,590	320	29	10,415.3	163.9	1.6%
Richland	1,287	8,052	34	14	0	7,266.3	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,396	72,550	1,535	159	14	8,982.6	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,253	4,816	40	16	1	8,621.2	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,276	34,292	238	41	6	8,416.6	65.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,511	8,106	34	21	0	9,119.4	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,594	16,845	501	70	11	11,134.3	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,884	45,774	760	128	8	11,250.9	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,379	34,280	1,614	43	4	7,235.0	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,799	5,685	213	21	9	8,741.5	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,386	11,787	92	36	2	11,543.7	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,830	12,541	64	36	3	6,042.2	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,130	8,494	125	36	2	9,835.6	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,838	40,194	2,386	127	19	8,612.8	123.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,293	6,305	70	18	2	8,156.2	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,741	52,118	1,766	134	8	10,217.4	99.6	1.0%
Waukesha	40,588	167,951	4,155	482	43	10,181.6	120.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,781	19,907	887	112	42	9,242.0	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,099	10,626	306	31	3	8,638.6	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,044	79,276	2,691	183	21	10,064.7	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,691	30,226	440	73	12	9,038.7	98.6	1.1%