350 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 350 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 3,384 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,351, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 30th. The seven-day testing total stands at 25,236, 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 13.28%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.70%. 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 257 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 5 from the day prior and a decrease of 47 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 637.

The state reported 57 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,387 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 374 in the past week.

DHS reported 7 new deaths. A total of 6,477 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,244 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 17.53, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 35.57.

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 12,839.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,830.0). Jackson, Barron, Kewaunee, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,435.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,426.8).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,793.3 (up from 9,787.3).

DHS reported the first case of Variant Strain B.1.351 of SARS-CoV-2, which researchers have found spreads faster than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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	1,586	7,786	164	10	5	7,738.5	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,173	6,808	69	16	0	7,394.6	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,412	18,854	154	76	0	11,796.0	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,059	6,677	85	19	0	6,965.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,312	127,643	2,540	225	29	11,643.7	86.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,320	5,235	33	7	0	9,771.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,207	6,002	140	23	0	7,813.8	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,486	20,662	562	43	4	10,657.4	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,072	28,600	180	93	2	11,012.1	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,159	10,402	388	57	4	9,093.0	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,061	26,615	377	54	11	8,859.1	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,667	7,422	53	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,814	323,082	1,580	278	23	7,722.7	52.6	0.7%
Dodge	11,453	40,242	777	156	21	12,839.0	174.9	1.4%
Door	2,430	13,809	195	20	5	8,662.8	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,649	18,494	612	26	15	8,317.0	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,289	18,258	333	29	0	9,578.6	64.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,030	48,562	343	105	10	10,719.9	102.0	1.0%
Florence	434	1,586	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,987	44,082	1,122	97	8	11,595.9	93.8	0.8%
Forest	924	4,186	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,666	22,912	691	81	5	8,909.0	154.7	1.7%
Green	3,182	16,319	110	16	6	8,631.7	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,521	7,621	428	18	3	7,968.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,870	10,823	88	10	1	7,857.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	550	2,500	117	21	19	9,411.4	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,584	9,276	42	23	0	12,517.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,902	34,991	959	111	14	9,332.2	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,983	14,447	104	19	1	11,085.9	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,865	71,712	2,193	301	15	8,836.1	178.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,413	7,215	179	27	2	11,688.6	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,291	53,326	659	80	0	10,386.8	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,462	6,352	154	7	1	8,659.6	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,937	6,902	158	32	12	9,794.2	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,916	10,464	193	59	17	10,252.4	207.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,256	29,711	1,139	64	18	9,041.3	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,680	49,581	1,413	181	33	10,152.8	134.3	1.3%
Marinette	3,969	18,112	404	63	3	9,695.1	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	6,023	180	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,746	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,563	459,208	8,992	1,244	40	10,435.7	131.7	1.3%
Monroe	4,334	18,415	94	33	1	9,422.1	71.7	0.8%
Oconto	4,279	16,468	451	48	7	11,271.8	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,406	14,648	138	69	4	9,484.0	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,371	83,947	2,410	197	12	10,539.2	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,657	40,071	911	80	6	8,665.7	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,015	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,495	16,219	891	33	6	8,394.4	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,953	18,753	69	44	0	9,004.6	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,494	26,224	523	64	3	9,182.8	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,164	5,403	97	7	0	8,429.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,422	97,736	2,614	323	29	10,461.9	165.5	1.6%
Richland	1,290	7,963	34	15	0	7,283.2	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,459	73,134	1,537	159	14	9,021.9	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,264	4,872	40	16	1	8,696.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,305	34,412	245	42	6	8,462.8	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,525	8,159	37	22	0	9,203.9	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,603	16,930	504	70	11	11,156.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,957	46,155	775	131	8	11,314.7	114.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,444	34,566	1,619	43	4	7,308.7	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,766	5,749	247	21	9	8,581.1	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,402	11,887	93	37	2	11,598.3	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,836	12,535	64	37	3	6,062.0	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,151	8,601	126	38	2	9,932.6	175.5	1.8%
Walworth	8,872	40,516	2,407	129	20	8,645.9	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,301	6,346	74	18	2	8,206.6	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,826	52,573	1,788	135	9	10,280.6	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,876	169,641	4,212	484	43	10,253.8	121.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,767	20,077	935	111	43	9,215.0	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,105	10,638	307	32	3	8,663.3	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,111	79,766	2,753	183	21	10,104.3	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,681	30,515	476	74	13	9,025.2	100.0	1.1%