318 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 318 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 2,848 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,880, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 23,133, 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 12.45%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.22%. 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 216 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 9 from the day prior and a decrease of 28 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 412.

The state reported 53 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, 312 in the past week.

DHS reported 15 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,554 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 12.93, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 23.87.

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 18,119.6 cases per 100,000 residents (adjusted down). Dodge County has recorded 12,899.5 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,507.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,499.8).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,872.4 (up from 9,866.9).

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	1,608	7,897	162	10	5	7,845.8	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,186	6,887	71	16	0	7,476.5	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,480	19,079	157	76	0	11,944.2	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,787	87	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,458	129,261	2,857	225	34	11,699.8	86.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,322	5,291	34	7	0	9,786.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,222	6,083	138	23	0	7,910.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,522	20,994	587	45	4	10,727.3	87.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,126	28,921	185	93	2	11,096.2	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,160	10,595	393	58	4	9,095.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,118	26,863	379	55	12	8,958.8	96.3	1.1%
Crawford	1,670	7,419	52	17	0	10,087.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,411	326,591	1,518	282	23	7,835.6	53.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,507	40,750	802	159	23	12,899.5	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,451	13,972	203	20	5	8,737.7	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,686	18,757	613	29	16	8,401.3	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,310	18,516	351	30	0	9,625.5	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,120	49,192	346	106	11	10,807.3	103.0	1.0%
Florence	424	1,593	49	12	0	9,590.6	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,013	44,560	1,172	99	8	11,621.0	95.8	0.8%
Forest	934	4,252	72	23	3	10,172.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,698	23,074	699	82	5	8,970.1	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,257	16,561	111	17	6	8,835.2	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,731	432	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,929	10,976	89	10	1	8,105.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	557	2,539	119	21	19	9,531.1	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,586	9,329	44	27	0	12,526.6	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,971	35,396	986	110	16	9,413.6	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,025	14,432	109	20	2	11,242.0	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,878	72,557	2,375	303	15	8,843.8	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,379	7,350	220	24	6	11,523.9	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,315	54,207	754	80	0	10,407.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,481	6,440	156	6	1	8,772.1	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,941	7,020	159	32	12	9,814.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,925	10,587	200	59	18	10,284.1	207.4	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,299	30,068	1,153	67	17	9,094.9	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,777	50,465	1,432	183	34	10,224.8	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,984	18,352	407	64	3	9,731.8	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,322	6,102	180	21	5	8,596.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	794	3,693	2	11	0	18,119.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,245	464,844	9,263	1,248	42	10,507.9	132.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,356	18,661	95	34	1	9,470.0	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,310	16,706	454	48	7	11,353.5	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,443	14,810	143	69	4	9,587.1	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,621	85,578	2,517	198	13	10,675.2	107.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,737	40,727	936	80	6	8,756.2	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	813	3,035	23	7	0	11,062.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,555	16,465	895	34	6	8,538.5	81.7	1.0%
Polk	4,001	19,107	81	46	2	9,113.9	104.8	1.1%
Portage	6,521	26,621	532	64	3	9,221.0	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,173	5,485	97	7	0	8,495.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,506	97,303	2,697	328	30	10,505.0	168.0	1.6%
Richland	1,295	7,957	35	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,565	73,993	1,573	163	14	9,088.1	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,276	4,949	42	16	1	8,779.4	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,387	34,632	255	43	6	8,593.6	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,547	8,276	38	22	0	9,336.7	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,631	17,126	519	70	11	11,223.9	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,113	46,824	801	133	9	11,450.9	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,573	35,322	1,626	48	6	7,455.0	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,790	5,814	243	21	9	8,697.8	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,415	12,025	97	37	3	11,642.6	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,856	12,487	63	37	3	6,128.0	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,173	8,736	134	38	2	10,034.2	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,933	40,948	2,480	133	19	8,705.4	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,323	6,472	76	18	2	8,345.4	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,925	53,529	1,832	138	10	10,354.2	102.6	1.0%
Waukesha	41,345	172,708	4,319	492	45	10,371.5	123.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,758	20,355	1,016	114	43	9,197.6	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,118	10,730	305	32	3	8,716.8	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,278	80,835	2,808	185	21	10,202.9	109.2	1.1%
Wood	6,714	31,012	480	77	13	9,069.8	104.0	1.1%