390 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 390 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 2,288 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,708, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 21,041, 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 12.87%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.66%. 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 213 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 9 from the day prior and a decrease of 20 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 385.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,024 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 310 in the past week.

DHS reported 6 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,562 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,249 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 11.60, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 24.80.

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 12,906.2 cases per 100,000 residents (adjusted down). 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, 10,526.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,516.4).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,887.6 (up from 9,880.9).

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 vaccination 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	7,916	163	10	5	7,850.7	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,187	6,880	72	16	0	7,482.8	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,484	19,125	156	76	0	11,952.9	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,792	90	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,506	129,524	2,911	227	34	11,718.2	87.2	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,285	34	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,225	6,088	139	23	0	7,930.3	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,538	21,058	589	46	4	10,758.4	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,139	28,967	186	93	2	11,116.5	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,160	10,627	393	58	4	9,095.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,129	26,873	380	55	12	8,978.1	96.3	1.1%
Crawford	1,670	7,423	53	17	0	10,087.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,528	327,292	1,518	282	23	7,857.8	53.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,513	40,782	813	158	24	12,906.2	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,462	13,994	205	20	5	8,776.9	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,697	18,798	617	29	16	8,426.4	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,318	18,562	353	30	0	9,643.3	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,143	49,246	349	105	11	10,829.7	102.0	0.9%
Florence	425	1,594	49	12	0	9,613.2	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,023	44,675	1,177	101	8	11,630.7	97.7	0.8%
Forest	935	4,264	72	23	3	10,183.0	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,704	23,092	701	83	5	8,981.6	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,266	16,594	111	16	6	8,859.6	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,526	7,740	432	18	3	7,994.6	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,934	10,993	89	10	1	8,126.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	557	2,542	119	21	19	9,531.1	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,340	48	27	0	12,512.1	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,969	35,452	1,014	106	20	9,411.3	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,029	14,406	107	20	2	11,256.9	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,875	72,673	2,412	304	15	8,842.0	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,372	246	24	6	11,402.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,324	54,256	760	80	0	10,414.7	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,481	6,453	156	6	1	8,772.1	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,942	7,036	159	32	12	9,819.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,928	10,611	200	60	18	10,294.6	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,311	30,138	1,155	67	17	9,109.8	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,802	50,599	1,438	183	34	10,243.4	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,986	18,366	408	64	3	9,736.7	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,323	6,107	180	21	6	8,603.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	794	3,677	3	11	0	18,119.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,421	465,500	9,303	1,249	43	10,526.5	132.2	1.3%
Monroe	4,360	18,689	96	34	1	9,478.7	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,313	16,737	458	48	7	11,361.4	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,452	14,816	145	68	5	9,612.1	189.3	2.0%
Outagamie	19,662	85,890	2,553	197	15	10,697.5	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,756	40,855	944	80	6	8,777.7	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	814	3,039	23	7	0	11,076.3	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,573	16,506	898	35	6	8,581.7	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,006	19,151	85	45	3	9,125.3	102.5	1.1%
Portage	6,521	26,673	536	66	3	9,221.0	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,173	5,493	97	7	0	8,495.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,513	97,018	2,721	330	30	10,508.5	169.1	1.6%
Richland	1,292	7,952	39	15	0	7,294.5	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,586	74,142	1,586	163	14	9,101.2	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,275	4,967	42	16	1	8,772.5	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,398	34,632	261	44	6	8,611.2	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,547	8,272	39	22	0	9,336.7	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,622	17,172	535	70	11	11,202.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,142	46,937	803	133	9	11,476.2	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,599	35,446	1,631	48	6	7,484.5	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,793	5,835	244	22	9	8,712.3	106.9	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,420	12,051	98	37	3	11,659.6	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,858	12,453	63	37	3	6,134.6	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,176	8,755	135	38	2	10,048.0	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,946	40,958	2,496	133	20	8,718.0	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,328	6,484	73	18	2	8,377.0	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,939	53,684	1,847	138	10	10,364.6	102.6	1.0%
Waukesha	41,456	173,194	4,373	494	45	10,399.3	123.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,755	20,425	1,034	114	43	9,191.8	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,117	10,744	309	31	4	8,712.7	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,314	81,009	2,815	186	21	10,224.2	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,718	31,098	479	77	13	9,075.2	104.0	1.1%