329 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 329 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 3,850 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,733, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 23,801, 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 11.48%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.37%. 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 249 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 6 from the day prior and a decrease of 41 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 583.

The state reported 25 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,457 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 330 in the past week.

DHS reported 3 new deaths. A total of 6,481 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 15.37, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 32.70.

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 12,847.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,846.8). 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, 10,450.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,441.1).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,802.6 (up from 9,796.9).

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	1,591	7,820	163	10	5	7,762.9	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,175	6,834	69	16	0	7,407.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,426	18,882	156	76	0	11,826.5	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,059	6,706	85	19	0	6,965.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,288	127,924	2,636	222	32	11,634.5	85.3	0.7%
Buffalo	1,321	5,245	33	7	0	9,778.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,209	6,028	142	23	0	7,826.8	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,485	20,709	566	43	4	10,655.5	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,080	28,656	179	93	2	11,024.6	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,159	10,436	390	57	4	9,093.0	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,074	26,652	377	54	11	8,881.8	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,668	7,423	52	17	0	10,075.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,944	323,893	1,580	278	23	7,747.3	52.6	0.7%
Dodge	11,461	40,286	779	157	22	12,847.9	176.0	1.4%
Door	2,428	13,828	201	20	5	8,655.7	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,652	18,578	614	27	15	8,323.8	61.5	0.7%
Dunn	4,283	18,293	350	29	0	9,565.2	64.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,046	48,667	344	105	10	10,735.4	102.0	1.0%
Florence	422	1,592	47	12	0	9,545.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,974	44,252	1,150	97	8	11,583.3	93.8	0.8%
Forest	925	4,191	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,672	22,922	692	81	5	8,920.5	154.7	1.7%
Green	3,190	16,349	110	16	6	8,653.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,521	7,640	430	18	3	7,968.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,883	10,853	88	10	1	7,912.1	42.0	0.5%
Iron	552	2,507	120	21	19	9,445.6	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,584	9,273	42	23	0	12,517.0	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,921	35,058	964	113	14	9,354.6	133.5	1.4%
Juneau	2,989	14,461	103	19	1	11,108.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,822	71,834	2,261	301	15	8,810.5	178.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,226	180	27	2	11,693.5	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,291	53,464	680	80	0	10,386.8	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,464	6,377	154	6	1	8,671.4	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,937	6,920	158	32	12	9,794.2	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,917	10,485	193	59	17	10,256.0	207.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,260	29,767	1,140	64	18	9,046.3	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,700	49,732	1,412	181	33	10,167.7	134.3	1.3%
Marinette	3,970	18,144	404	63	3	9,697.6	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,313	6,038	181	21	5	8,538.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,736	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,701	460,051	9,018	1,244	40	10,450.3	131.7	1.3%
Monroe	4,338	18,461	94	33	1	9,430.8	71.7	0.8%
Oconto	4,286	16,507	452	48	7	11,290.2	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,416	14,658	140	69	4	9,511.9	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,391	84,203	2,434	197	12	10,550.1	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,654	40,171	925	80	6	8,662.3	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,014	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,499	16,265	891	33	6	8,404.0	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,963	18,810	73	43	1	9,027.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,495	26,293	526	64	3	9,184.2	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,165	5,420	99	7	0	8,437.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,384	97,781	2,673	323	30	10,442.5	165.5	1.6%
Richland	1,293	7,975	34	15	0	7,300.1	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,482	73,253	1,537	159	14	9,036.3	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,266	4,885	40	16	1	8,710.6	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,323	34,489	247	42	6	8,491.5	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,532	8,181	37	22	0	9,246.2	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,603	16,958	504	70	11	11,156.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,976	46,235	778	132	8	11,331.3	115.3	1.0%
St. Croix	6,454	34,676	1,618	43	4	7,320.0	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,767	5,768	248	21	9	8,586.0	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,405	11,910	93	37	2	11,608.5	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,841	12,506	64	38	3	6,078.5	125.5	2.1%
Vilas	2,156	8,631	125	38	2	9,955.7	175.5	1.8%
Walworth	8,875	40,565	2,406	129	20	8,648.8	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,303	6,372	73	18	2	8,219.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,853	52,738	1,789	135	9	10,300.7	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,927	170,109	4,220	487	45	10,266.6	122.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,751	20,122	963	111	43	9,184.0	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,106	10,646	308	32	3	8,667.4	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,124	79,912	2,758	183	21	10,112.0	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,693	30,618	479	74	13	9,041.4	100.0	1.1%