324 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 324 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 2,414 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,028, 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 37,139, 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 10.85%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.94%. 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 271 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 16 from the day prior and a decrease of 72 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 697.

The state reported 64 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,222 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 384 in the past week.

DHS reported 28  new deaths. A total of 6,440 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,243 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 18.13, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.23.

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 12,813.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,798.6). Jackson, Barron, Kewaunee, Brown, Fond du Lac, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,409.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,403.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,766.3 (up from 9,760.6).

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	1,581	7,753	163	10	5	7,714.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,174	6,783	67	16	0	7,400.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,369	18,761	147	76	0	11,702.3	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,066	6,663	74	19	0	7,011.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,219	127,118	2,485	223	28	11,608.0	85.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,320	5,223	33	7	0	9,771.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,205	5,982	138	23	0	7,800.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,479	20,524	548	43	4	10,643.8	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,052	28,475	181	92	2	10,981.0	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,158	10,345	388	57	4	9,090.1	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,045	26,574	379	52	10	8,831.0	91.0	1.0%
Crawford	1,667	7,395	51	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,577	322,084	1,592	273	23	7,677.8	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,430	40,108	774	155	21	12,813.2	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,419	13,761	195	20	5	8,623.6	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,636	18,407	604	26	15	8,287.4	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,269	18,183	331	28	0	9,533.9	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,018	48,322	301	104	10	10,708.2	101.1	0.9%
Florence	434	1,582	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,995	43,901	1,065	96	8	11,603.6	92.9	0.8%
Forest	924	4,167	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,657	22,795	687	80	5	8,891.8	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,152	16,218	110	16	6	8,550.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,584	420	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,860	10,779	87	10	1	7,815.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	545	2,484	117	20	19	9,325.8	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,575	9,257	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,882	34,867	952	111	14	9,308.5	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,989	14,467	87	19	1	11,108.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,854	71,438	2,133	300	15	8,829.5	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,165	168	28	1	11,693.5	135.6	1.2%
La Crosse	12,246	53,035	655	80	0	10,348.8	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,463	6,319	148	7	1	8,665.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,861	156	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,912	10,397	193	58	17	10,238.4	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,242	29,591	1,130	63	18	9,023.8	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,698	49,289	1,350	176	33	10,166.2	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,960	18,055	404	63	3	9,673.2	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	5,996	180	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,763	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,319	457,427	8,884	1,243	39	10,409.9	131.6	1.3%
Monroe	4,322	18,338	93	31	1	9,396.1	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,268	16,391	446	48	7	11,242.8	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,388	14,582	137	67	4	9,433.9	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,298	83,385	2,350	196	12	10,499.5	106.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,644	39,869	897	78	6	8,651.0	88.3	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,000	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,483	16,148	890	33	6	8,365.6	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,932	18,628	67	44	0	8,956.7	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,482	26,201	524	64	3	9,165.9	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,162	5,376	97	7	0	8,415.4	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,367	97,789	2,602	321	29	10,433.8	164.4	1.6%
Richland	1,286	8,006	34	15	0	7,260.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,422	72,881	1,533	159	14	8,998.8	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,257	4,831	40	16	1	8,648.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,293	34,368	240	42	6	8,443.7	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,518	8,122	34	21	0	9,161.7	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,595	16,881	502	70	11	11,136.7	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,915	45,948	763	131	8	11,278.0	114.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,401	34,407	1,615	43	4	7,259.9	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,800	5,719	213	21	9	8,746.4	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,398	11,828	93	37	2	11,584.6	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,832	12,520	64	36	3	6,048.8	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,141	8,546	125	36	2	9,886.4	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,850	40,312	2,390	129	19	8,624.5	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,295	6,321	72	18	2	8,168.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,774	52,312	1,775	135	8	10,242.0	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,696	168,675	4,171	484	43	10,208.7	121.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,773	19,960	909	112	42	9,226.6	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,099	10,636	306	31	3	8,638.6	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,063	79,493	2,716	183	21	10,075.9	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,666	30,341	476	74	13	9,004.9	100.0	1.1%