480 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 480 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 1,612 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,078, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,986, 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 12.32%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.44%. 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 215 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 1 from the day prior and a decrease of 29 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 399.

The state reported 68 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,889 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 335 in the past week.

DHS reported 3 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,539 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 12.57, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 28.00.

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 12,899.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,896.1). 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, 10,499.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,490.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,866.9 (up from 9,858.6).

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	1,607	7,888	163	10	5	7,840.9	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,186	6,892	71	16	0	7,476.5	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,475	19,056	157	76	0	11,933.3	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,061	6,788	87	19	0	6,978.4	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,429	129,052	2,830	226	34	11,688.7	86.8	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,275	33	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,222	6,083	138	23	0	7,910.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,519	20,969	586	44	4	10,721.5	85.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,120	28,897	185	93	2	11,086.9	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,161	10,573	392	58	4	9,098.8	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,111	26,840	379	54	12	8,946.6	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,669	7,416	52	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,375	326,531	1,511	280	23	7,828.8	53.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,507	40,713	794	159	23	12,899.5	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,442	13,956	202	20	5	8,705.6	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,683	18,766	612	29	16	8,394.5	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,302	18,501	351	30	0	9,607.6	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,101	49,153	346	106	11	10,788.9	103.0	1.0%
Florence	423	1,590	49	12	0	9,568.0	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,009	44,528	1,169	99	8	11,617.2	95.8	0.8%
Forest	930	4,247	72	23	3	10,128.5	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,696	23,092	698	82	5	8,966.3	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,247	16,543	110	17	6	8,808.1	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,524	7,716	431	18	3	7,984.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,925	10,970	89	10	1	8,088.6	42.0	0.5%
Iron	557	2,536	119	21	19	9,531.1	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,585	9,326	44	27	0	12,521.8	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,972	35,376	976	110	16	9,414.8	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,023	14,448	104	19	2	11,234.6	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,901	72,477	2,334	303	15	8,857.5	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,385	7,342	214	24	6	11,553.0	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,305	54,139	750	80	0	10,398.6	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,481	6,431	155	6	1	8,772.1	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,941	7,016	159	32	12	9,814.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,928	10,581	194	58	17	10,294.6	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,300	29,993	1,149	66	17	9,096.1	82.2	0.9%
Marathon	13,769	50,357	1,432	183	34	10,218.9	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,982	18,330	405	64	3	9,726.9	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,322	6,094	180	21	5	8,596.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,705	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,168	464,346	9,210	1,248	41	10,499.8	132.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,355	18,642	94	34	1	9,467.8	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,306	16,672	453	48	7	11,342.9	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,438	14,790	143	69	4	9,573.1	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,618	85,451	2,500	197	13	10,673.6	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,739	40,664	932	80	6	8,758.5	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	811	3,033	23	7	0	11,035.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,553	16,431	893	33	6	8,533.7	79.3	0.9%
Polk	4,007	19,068	74	47	1	9,127.6	107.1	1.2%
Portage	6,521	26,587	531	64	3	9,221.0	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,175	5,480	97	7	0	8,509.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,508	97,500	2,689	326	30	10,506.0	167.0	1.6%
Richland	1,294	7,961	35	15	0	7,305.8	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,571	73,938	1,545	162	14	9,091.8	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,277	4,942	40	16	1	8,786.3	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,381	34,630	255	43	6	8,584.1	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,544	8,267	37	22	0	9,318.6	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,630	17,103	518	70	11	11,221.5	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,100	46,776	794	132	9	11,439.5	115.3	1.0%
St. Croix	6,568	35,277	1,623	49	5	7,449.3	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,786	5,803	243	21	9	8,678.3	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,414	12,006	97	37	3	11,639.2	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,857	12,500	63	38	3	6,131.3	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,180	8,722	127	38	2	10,066.5	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,930	40,913	2,459	132	19	8,702.4	128.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,320	6,461	76	18	2	8,326.5	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,924	53,435	1,815	137	10	10,353.5	101.9	1.0%
Waukesha	41,271	172,370	4,299	490	45	10,352.9	122.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,777	20,328	986	114	43	9,234.3	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,122	10,735	298	32	3	8,733.2	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,263	80,706	2,799	184	21	10,194.0	108.7	1.1%
Wood	6,711	30,958	480	76	13	9,065.7	102.7	1.1%