206 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 206 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 2,367 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,868, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 30th. The seven-day testing total stands at 23,713, 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 12.09%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.41%. 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 255 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 2 from the day prior and a decrease of 49 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 594.

The state reported 45 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,432 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 419 in the past week.

DHS reported 1 new death. A total of 6,478 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 16.20, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 33.77.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 18th 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 12,846.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,839.0). Jackson, Barron, Kewaunee, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,441.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,435.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,796.9 (up from 9,793.3).

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	1,589	7,797	163	10	5	7,753.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,174	6,818	69	16	0	7,400.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,421	18,863	154	76	0	11,815.6	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,059	6,691	85	19	0	6,965.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,284	127,768	2,632	222	32	11,633.0	85.3	0.7%
Buffalo	1,321	5,240	33	7	0	9,778.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,209	6,012	142	23	0	7,826.8	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,484	20,682	566	43	4	10,653.5	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,077	28,638	180	93	2	11,019.9	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,159	10,413	390	57	4	9,093.0	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,067	26,620	377	54	11	8,869.6	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,667	7,423	52	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,895	323,450	1,575	278	23	7,738.0	52.6	0.7%
Dodge	11,460	40,257	779	157	22	12,846.8	176.0	1.4%
Door	2,426	13,819	200	20	5	8,648.5	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,652	18,537	614	26	15	8,323.8	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,279	18,266	349	29	0	9,556.2	64.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,042	48,606	342	105	10	10,731.5	102.0	1.0%
Florence	421	1,588	47	12	0	9,522.7	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,973	44,176	1,150	97	8	11,582.3	93.8	0.8%
Forest	925	4,187	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,670	22,900	692	81	5	8,916.6	154.7	1.7%
Green	3,187	16,325	110	16	6	8,645.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,521	7,633	429	18	3	7,968.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,877	10,839	88	10	1	7,886.9	42.0	0.5%
Iron	551	2,502	117	21	19	9,428.5	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,584	9,269	42	23	0	12,517.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,912	35,000	961	113	14	9,344.0	133.5	1.4%
Juneau	2,986	14,446	104	19	1	11,097.1	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,815	71,760	2,254	301	15	8,806.3	178.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,413	7,220	180	27	2	11,688.6	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,287	53,383	679	80	0	10,383.4	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,464	6,368	154	6	1	8,671.4	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,937	6,905	158	32	12	9,794.2	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,917	10,478	193	59	17	10,256.0	207.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,260	29,717	1,140	64	18	9,046.3	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,695	49,658	1,412	181	33	10,163.9	134.3	1.3%
Marinette	3,970	18,127	404	63	3	9,697.6	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,313	6,032	181	21	5	8,538.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,738	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,614	459,467	9,017	1,244	40	10,441.1	131.7	1.3%
Monroe	4,336	18,439	94	33	1	9,426.5	71.7	0.8%
Oconto	4,281	16,478	452	48	7	11,277.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,412	14,632	140	69	4	9,500.7	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,376	84,070	2,427	197	12	10,541.9	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,648	40,113	925	80	6	8,655.5	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,013	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,499	16,240	890	33	6	8,404.0	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,961	18,778	72	43	1	9,022.8	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,494	26,251	526	64	3	9,182.8	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,165	5,409	99	7	0	8,437.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,378	97,681	2,667	323	30	10,439.4	165.5	1.6%
Richland	1,293	7,966	34	15	0	7,300.1	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,469	73,175	1,539	159	14	9,028.2	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,264	4,876	40	16	1	8,696.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,311	34,407	246	42	6	8,472.4	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,530	8,173	37	22	0	9,234.1	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,603	16,950	504	70	11	11,156.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,968	46,179	776	131	8	11,324.3	114.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,447	34,627	1,618	43	4	7,312.1	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,767	5,751	247	21	9	8,586.0	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,403	11,899	93	37	2	11,601.7	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,839	12,491	64	37	3	6,071.9	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,153	8,612	125	38	2	9,941.8	175.5	1.8%
Walworth	8,875	40,526	2,406	129	20	8,648.8	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,303	6,358	74	18	2	8,219.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,846	52,640	1,789	135	9	10,295.5	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,917	169,864	4,219	487	44	10,264.1	122.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,748	20,102	964	111	43	9,178.2	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,106	10,639	307	32	3	8,667.4	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,125	79,822	2,758	183	21	10,112.6	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,689	30,564	477	74	13	9,036.0	100.0	1.1%