550 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 550 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 3,355 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,744, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 22,018, 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 12.46%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.90%. 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 233 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 25 from the day prior and a decrease of 24 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 489.

The state reported 44 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,714 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 327 in the past week.

DHS reported no new deaths. A total of 6,525 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,250 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 13.20, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 32.23.

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 12,889.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,878.2). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,475.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,467.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,840.8 (up from 9,831.3).

The City of Milwaukee’s stop-light-colored gating criteria indicates that, as of March 11th, the city has three green indicators and two yellow indicators. The criteria, according to city officials, are used to determine how to ease or tighten the city’s COVID-19 health order.

The city has green indicators for new cases, testing and care. It has yellow indicators for the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) in area hospitals and contact tracing performance.

The cases metric is a measure of the positive case rate. The city’s rate is on a upward trajectory and has been under 5% for at least 14 days. The testing metric shows an average of 1,745 tests per day over the past two weeks, with a 3.3% positive rate. The care metric shows that 3% of county hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 positive patients.

The countywide PPE availability measure is given a yellow indicator without supporting data. The contacting metric shows that the city has successfully reached with 76.5% of individuals testing positive within two days.

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	1,601	7,870	162	10	5	7,811.7	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,181	6,850	72	16	0	7,445.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,455	18,993	156	76	0	11,889.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,061	6,743	85	19	0	6,978.4	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,375	128,579	2,751	225	33	11,667.9	86.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,322	5,265	33	7	0	9,786.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,217	6,058	140	23	0	7,878.6	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,508	20,864	582	43	4	10,700.1	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,110	28,782	181	93	2	11,071.3	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,160	10,514	392	59	4	9,095.9	169.8	1.9%
Columbia	5,094	26,748	379	54	12	8,916.8	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,668	7,414	52	17	0	10,075.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,207	325,343	1,544	280	23	7,797.0	53.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,498	40,578	791	159	22	12,889.4	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,438	13,919	201	20	5	8,691.3	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,665	18,628	611	28	16	8,353.5	63.8	0.8%
Dunn	4,296	18,423	350	30	0	9,594.2	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,084	48,928	348	106	11	10,772.4	103.0	1.0%
Florence	422	1,589	47	12	0	9,545.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,987	44,392	1,159	98	8	11,595.9	94.8	0.8%
Forest	927	4,221	71	23	3	10,095.8	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,689	23,032	695	82	5	8,952.9	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,234	16,480	109	17	6	8,772.8	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,524	7,668	429	18	3	7,984.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,907	10,924	89	10	1	8,012.9	42.0	0.5%
Iron	557	2,525	119	21	19	9,531.1	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,292	44	27	0	12,512.1	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,951	35,261	972	110	16	9,390.0	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,013	14,442	103	19	1	11,197.4	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,879	72,217	2,299	301	15	8,844.4	178.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,384	7,299	214	24	6	11,548.1	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,284	53,837	749	80	0	10,380.9	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,478	6,414	154	6	1	8,754.4	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,938	6,974	159	32	12	9,799.3	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,924	10,550	193	58	17	10,280.6	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,289	29,912	1,146	66	17	9,082.4	82.2	0.9%
Marathon	13,737	50,095	1,428	182	34	10,195.1	135.1	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,238	404	63	3	9,724.5	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,320	6,065	181	21	5	8,583.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,714	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,939	462,171	9,152	1,250	41	10,475.5	132.3	1.3%
Monroe	4,352	18,558	94	34	1	9,461.3	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,299	16,607	454	48	7	11,324.5	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,434	14,737	142	69	4	9,562.0	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,542	84,995	2,477	197	12	10,632.2	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,701	40,433	926	80	6	8,715.5	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	808	3,030	23	7	0	10,994.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,520	16,363	894	33	6	8,454.4	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,992	18,938	74	46	1	9,093.4	104.8	1.2%
Portage	6,516	26,492	528	64	3	9,213.9	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,457	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,462	97,681	2,679	325	30	10,482.4	166.5	1.6%
Richland	1,295	7,978	35	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,541	73,560	1,540	162	14	9,073.1	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,271	4,922	41	16	1	8,745.0	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,352	34,584	253	43	6	8,537.8	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,538	8,220	37	22	0	9,282.4	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,615	17,045	515	70	11	11,185.2	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,040	46,527	783	133	9	11,387.2	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,500	35,004	1,621	44	4	7,372.2	49.9	0.7%
Taylor	1,780	5,792	245	21	9	8,649.2	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,413	11,962	96	37	3	11,635.8	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,852	12,491	64	38	3	6,114.8	125.5	2.1%
Vilas	2,171	8,679	127	38	2	10,024.9	175.5	1.8%
Walworth	8,913	40,721	2,443	131	20	8,685.9	127.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,313	6,410	73	18	2	8,282.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,897	53,117	1,804	137	10	10,333.4	101.9	1.0%
Waukesha	41,120	171,225	4,265	489	45	10,315.0	122.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,777	20,253	969	113	43	9,234.3	218.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,115	10,707	301	32	3	8,704.4	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,215	80,325	2,781	184	21	10,165.7	108.7	1.1%
Wood	6,702	30,832	477	76	13	9,053.6	102.7	1.1%