490 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 490 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 3,170 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,868, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 22,108, 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 12.97%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.26%. 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 222 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 16 from the day prior and a decrease of 36 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 411.

The state reported 52 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,994 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 324 in the past week.

DHS reported 2 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,556 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,247 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 11.73, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 25.10.

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 18,142.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,119.6). Dodge County has recorded 12,909.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,899.5). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,516.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,507.9).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,880.9 (up from 9,872.4).

The City of Milwaukee revised its gating criteria on March 18th in accordance with its new health order. The three criteria are intended to guide what phase of the health order the city should progress to, either loosening or tightening restrictions.

The five-level scale measures range from blue (good, low transmission) to purple (bad, extreme transmission).

The data, last updated March 18th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a moderate transmission level (45.8) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (10-49 is moderate transmission).

The city has low transmission based on the positive test rate (2.4%). Low transmission is defined as less than 5%.

The adult vacination rate (which the city defines as any individual over the age of 15 completing the dose course for any COVID-19 rate) stands at 8.5%. The low transmission target is 80% and the city has not defined the lower benchmark thresholds.

The city is no longer using hospital bed usage, contact tracing or personal protective equipment supply to guide its COVID-19 health order.

The city is currently in phase six of its health order. According to a chart produced by the health department, the city would enter phase 7 when all three criteria reach the low transmission benchmarks.

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	1,609	7,910	163	10	5	7,850.7	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,186	6,874	71	16	0	7,476.5	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,483	19,123	157	76	0	11,950.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,786	88	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,481	129,397	2,884	226	34	11,708.6	86.8	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,286	34	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,224	6,087	138	23	0	7,923.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,528	21,031	590	45	4	10,739.0	87.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,132	28,945	186	93	2	11,105.6	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,160	10,617	393	58	4	9,095.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,127	26,873	379	55	12	8,974.6	96.3	1.1%
Crawford	1,670	7,421	53	17	0	10,087.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,479	327,007	1,519	282	23	7,848.5	53.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,516	40,772	807	158	24	12,909.6	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,458	13,991	205	20	5	8,762.6	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,688	18,770	617	29	16	8,405.9	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,312	18,542	351	30	0	9,629.9	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,136	49,225	347	106	11	10,822.9	103.0	1.0%
Florence	424	1,592	49	12	0	9,590.6	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,019	44,631	1,174	100	8	11,626.8	96.7	0.8%
Forest	934	4,255	72	23	3	10,172.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,703	23,105	700	83	5	8,979.6	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,261	16,577	111	17	6	8,846.0	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,735	432	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,932	10,983	89	10	1	8,118.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	557	2,543	119	21	19	9,531.1	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,336	47	27	0	12,512.1	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,976	35,435	998	110	16	9,419.5	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,026	14,419	107	20	2	11,245.7	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,886	72,640	2,389	303	15	8,848.5	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,367	7,360	233	24	6	11,465.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,323	54,260	755	80	0	10,413.8	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,481	6,444	156	6	1	8,772.1	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,941	7,028	159	32	12	9,814.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,926	10,603	200	60	18	10,287.6	211.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,307	30,110	1,153	67	17	9,104.8	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,786	50,557	1,437	183	34	10,231.5	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,984	18,366	407	64	3	9,731.8	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,322	6,107	180	21	6	8,596.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,684	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,325	465,180	9,265	1,247	43	10,516.4	132.0	1.3%
Monroe	4,359	18,695	95	34	1	9,476.5	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,311	16,730	455	48	7	11,356.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,446	14,824	143	69	4	9,595.4	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,644	85,741	2,533	198	13	10,687.7	107.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,753	40,778	936	80	6	8,774.3	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	813	3,038	23	7	0	11,062.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,563	16,477	897	34	6	8,557.7	81.7	1.0%
Polk	4,008	19,133	81	46	2	9,129.8	104.8	1.1%
Portage	6,520	26,648	535	65	3	9,219.6	91.9	1.0%
Price	1,173	5,492	97	7	0	8,495.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,514	97,179	2,706	328	30	10,509.1	168.0	1.6%
Richland	1,292	7,953	37	15	0	7,294.5	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,574	74,066	1,579	162	14	9,093.7	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,276	4,959	42	16	1	8,779.4	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,391	34,650	259	43	6	8,600.0	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,546	8,264	39	22	0	9,330.7	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,630	17,148	522	70	11	11,221.5	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,131	46,882	803	133	9	11,466.6	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,578	35,363	1,625	48	6	7,460.7	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,792	5,827	243	22	9	8,707.5	106.9	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,417	12,050	99	37	3	11,649.4	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,858	12,475	63	37	3	6,134.6	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,173	8,750	134	38	2	10,034.2	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,941	40,963	2,482	133	20	8,713.2	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,325	6,469	75	18	2	8,358.0	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,940	53,627	1,837	138	10	10,365.4	102.6	1.0%
Waukesha	41,398	172,955	4,342	492	45	10,384.8	123.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,757	20,396	1,027	114	43	9,195.6	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,120	10,739	307	31	4	8,725.0	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,304	80,965	2,812	185	21	10,218.3	109.2	1.1%
Wood	6,715	31,048	479	77	13	9,071.1	104.0	1.1%