462 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 462 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 5,012 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,000, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,663, 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 12.16%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.13%. 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 226 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 7 from the day prior and a decrease of 29 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 489.

The state reported 60 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,774 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 342 in the past week.

DHS reported 13 new deaths. A total of 6,538 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,251 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 13.27, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 30.97.

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 12,893.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,889.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,477.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,475.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,848.8 (up from 9,840.8).

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	1,604	7,885	163	10	5	7,826.3	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,183	6,880	72	16	0	7,457.6	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,460	19,008	156	76	0	11,900.6	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,762	85	19	0	6,985.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,386	128,763	2,780	226	34	11,672.2	86.8	0.7%
Buffalo	1,322	5,279	33	7	0	9,786.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,217	6,070	140	23	0	7,878.6	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,512	20,891	582	43	4	10,707.9	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,114	28,831	182	93	2	11,077.5	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,160	10,535	392	59	4	9,095.9	169.8	1.9%
Columbia	5,099	26,797	379	54	12	8,925.6	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,669	7,417	52	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,262	325,801	1,522	280	23	7,807.4	53.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,502	40,665	789	159	22	12,893.9	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,441	13,929	201	20	5	8,702.0	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,673	18,683	612	28	16	8,371.7	63.8	0.8%
Dunn	4,295	18,445	350	30	0	9,592.0	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,086	49,007	347	106	11	10,774.3	103.0	1.0%
Florence	422	1,589	49	12	0	9,545.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,996	44,446	1,163	98	8	11,604.6	94.8	0.8%
Forest	927	4,224	73	23	3	10,095.8	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,694	23,057	697	82	5	8,962.5	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,241	16,507	110	17	6	8,791.8	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,695	429	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,912	10,939	89	10	1	8,034.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	555	2,530	119	21	19	9,496.9	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,585	9,303	44	27	0	12,521.8	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,958	35,302	974	110	16	9,398.3	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,015	14,462	103	19	1	11,204.8	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,887	72,271	2,300	301	15	8,849.1	178.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,386	7,315	213	24	6	11,557.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,289	53,934	745	80	0	10,385.1	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,480	6,420	154	6	1	8,766.2	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,939	6,979	160	32	12	9,804.3	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,924	10,554	193	58	17	10,280.6	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,291	29,916	1,148	66	17	9,084.9	82.2	0.9%
Marathon	13,745	50,169	1,429	183	34	10,201.1	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,295	404	64	3	9,724.5	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,321	6,068	181	21	5	8,590.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,709	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,955	463,063	9,189	1,251	41	10,477.2	132.5	1.3%
Monroe	4,351	18,595	94	34	1	9,459.1	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,303	16,636	453	48	7	11,335.0	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,434	14,747	142	69	4	9,562.0	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,558	85,151	2,482	197	12	10,640.9	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,713	40,522	927	80	6	8,729.1	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	809	3,030	23	7	0	11,008.3	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,536	16,390	893	33	6	8,492.9	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,994	19,034	74	47	1	9,097.9	107.1	1.2%
Portage	6,519	26,514	529	64	3	9,218.2	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,464	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,479	97,650	2,683	325	30	10,491.1	166.5	1.6%
Richland	1,295	7,971	34	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,563	73,752	1,544	162	14	9,086.8	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,271	4,927	41	16	1	8,745.0	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,362	34,595	253	43	6	8,553.7	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,542	8,235	37	22	0	9,306.5	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,620	17,071	513	70	11	11,197.3	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,061	46,651	788	133	9	11,405.5	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,540	35,177	1,621	49	5	7,417.6	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,782	5,793	245	21	9	8,658.9	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,414	11,976	96	37	3	11,639.2	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,854	12,494	63	38	3	6,121.4	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,174	8,688	127	38	2	10,038.8	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,919	40,806	2,445	132	19	8,691.7	128.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,316	6,440	73	18	2	8,301.3	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,910	53,242	1,804	137	10	10,343.1	101.9	1.0%
Waukesha	41,175	171,688	4,267	490	45	10,328.8	122.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,783	20,299	968	114	43	9,245.9	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,116	10,733	300	32	3	8,708.5	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,224	80,470	2,783	184	21	10,171.0	108.7	1.1%
Wood	6,703	30,870	477	76	13	9,054.9	102.7	1.1%