294 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 294 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 2,289 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,061, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,870, 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 12.31%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.90%. 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 214 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 2 from the day prior and a decrease of 41 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 421.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,821 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 337 in the past week.

DHS reported no COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,536 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,248 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 12.50, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 29.03.

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 12,896.1 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,895.0). 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, 10,490.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,484.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,858.6 (up from 9,853.5).

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	1,606	7,892	163	10	5	7,836.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,185	6,901	72	16	0	7,470.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,472	19,037	157	76	0	11,926.8	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,780	86	19	0	6,985.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,395	128,972	2,799	226	34	11,675.6	86.8	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,289	33	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,222	6,081	138	23	0	7,910.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,514	20,952	584	43	4	10,711.8	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,120	28,878	183	93	2	11,086.9	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,161	10,560	392	59	4	9,098.8	169.8	1.9%
Columbia	5,105	26,855	378	54	12	8,936.1	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,669	7,429	52	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,332	326,316	1,508	280	23	7,820.7	53.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,504	40,731	794	159	23	12,896.1	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,442	13,945	201	20	5	8,705.6	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,678	18,752	613	28	16	8,383.1	63.8	0.8%
Dunn	4,300	18,486	350	30	0	9,603.1	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,097	49,112	346	106	11	10,785.0	103.0	1.0%
Florence	423	1,590	49	12	0	9,568.0	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,998	44,529	1,163	98	8	11,606.5	94.8	0.8%
Forest	929	4,232	73	23	3	10,117.6	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,694	23,101	696	82	5	8,962.5	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,246	16,542	110	17	6	8,805.3	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,719	430	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,921	10,951	89	10	1	8,071.8	42.0	0.5%
Iron	555	2,532	119	21	19	9,496.9	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,585	9,316	44	27	0	12,521.8	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,966	35,377	974	110	16	9,407.7	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,022	14,475	103	19	1	11,230.9	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,896	72,433	2,310	303	15	8,854.5	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,386	7,332	213	24	6	11,557.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,299	54,062	748	80	0	10,393.6	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,480	6,429	155	6	1	8,766.2	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,940	7,005	160	32	12	9,809.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,928	10,574	193	58	17	10,294.6	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,291	29,991	1,148	66	17	9,084.9	82.2	0.9%
Marathon	13,763	50,300	1,429	183	34	10,214.4	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,327	404	64	3	9,724.5	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,322	6,084	180	21	5	8,596.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,709	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,081	464,122	9,191	1,248	41	10,490.5	132.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,353	18,626	94	34	1	9,463.5	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,303	16,660	455	48	7	11,335.0	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,437	14,777	142	69	4	9,570.4	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,598	85,368	2,492	197	12	10,662.7	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,718	40,617	929	80	6	8,734.7	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	808	3,034	23	7	0	10,994.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,544	16,426	894	33	6	8,512.1	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,999	19,070	74	47	1	9,109.3	107.1	1.2%
Portage	6,521	26,578	529	64	3	9,221.0	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,475	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,496	97,742	2,687	325	30	10,499.8	166.5	1.6%
Richland	1,296	7,996	34	15	0	7,317.1	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,567	73,920	1,544	162	14	9,089.3	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	4,938	41	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,380	34,674	254	43	6	8,582.5	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,543	8,261	37	22	0	9,312.6	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,620	17,099	513	70	11	11,197.3	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,070	46,723	788	132	9	11,413.4	115.3	1.0%
St. Croix	6,563	35,258	1,621	49	5	7,443.7	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,783	5,804	245	21	9	8,663.8	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,413	11,991	96	37	3	11,635.8	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,855	12,502	63	38	3	6,124.7	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,178	8,718	127	38	2	10,057.3	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,920	40,906	2,445	132	19	8,692.7	128.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,319	6,452	74	18	2	8,320.2	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,913	53,361	1,808	137	10	10,345.3	101.9	1.0%
Waukesha	41,221	172,194	4,280	490	45	10,340.4	122.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,783	20,315	970	114	43	9,245.9	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,116	10,748	300	32	3	8,708.5	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,247	80,682	2,791	184	21	10,184.6	108.7	1.1%
Wood	6,708	30,934	479	76	13	9,061.7	102.7	1.1%