420 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 420 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,448 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,794, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 27th. The seven-day testing total stands at 19,327, 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 14.46%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.05%. 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 193 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 7 from the day prior and a decrease of 19 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 370.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,102 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 311 in the past week.

DHS reported 0 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,576 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 10.30, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 23.50.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,923.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,920.8). 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, 10,547.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,533.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,901.9 (up from 9,894.6).

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	7,937	164	10	5	7,850.7	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,190	6,886	74	16	0	7,501.7	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,496	19,181	156	76	0	11,979.1	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,067	6,802	90	19	0	7,017.9	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,531	129,770	2,925	227	34	11,727.9	87.2	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,302	34	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,225	6,095	139	23	0	7,930.3	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,551	21,110	591	46	4	10,783.7	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,149	29,019	186	93	2	11,132.0	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,161	10,667	393	58	4	9,098.8	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,138	26,930	380	55	12	8,993.8	96.3	1.1%
Crawford	1,671	7,443	53	17	0	10,093.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,605	327,888	1,519	288	23	7,872.3	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,528	40,850	814	158	24	12,923.0	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,468	14,043	209	21	5	8,798.3	74.9	0.9%
Douglas	3,700	18,838	617	29	16	8,433.2	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,328	18,617	353	30	0	9,665.7	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,161	49,379	335	105	11	10,847.2	102.0	0.9%
Florence	425	1,596	49	12	0	9,613.2	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,029	44,811	1,176	101	8	11,636.5	97.7	0.8%
Forest	934	4,274	72	23	3	10,172.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,711	23,123	699	83	5	8,994.9	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,275	16,632	112	16	6	8,884.0	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,527	7,754	432	18	3	7,999.8	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,934	11,005	89	10	1	8,126.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	558	2,548	119	21	19	9,548.3	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,366	50	27	0	12,512.1	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,987	35,514	1,019	106	20	9,432.5	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,034	14,408	106	20	2	11,275.5	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,899	72,855	2,423	304	15	8,856.3	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,387	248	24	6	11,402.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,340	54,453	758	80	0	10,428.2	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,485	6,468	155	6	1	8,795.8	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,941	7,044	159	32	12	9,814.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,930	10,642	201	60	18	10,301.7	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,314	30,237	1,159	67	17	9,113.6	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,816	50,727	1,442	183	34	10,253.7	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,986	18,404	408	65	3	9,736.7	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,323	6,116	180	21	6	8,603.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,669	3	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,615	466,647	9,321	1,249	43	10,547.1	132.2	1.3%
Monroe	4,362	18,750	96	34	1	9,483.0	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,311	16,782	464	48	7	11,356.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,458	14,823	146	68	5	9,628.8	189.3	2.0%
Outagamie	19,690	86,143	2,579	197	15	10,712.7	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,781	40,987	949	81	7	8,806.0	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	813	3,050	23	7	0	11,062.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,584	16,547	898	35	6	8,608.1	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,010	19,210	86	45	3	9,134.4	102.5	1.1%
Portage	6,528	26,734	541	66	3	9,230.9	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,173	5,504	97	7	0	8,495.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,528	97,102	2,733	331	30	10,516.2	169.6	1.6%
Richland	1,291	7,960	42	15	0	7,288.8	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,610	74,288	1,586	164	15	9,116.2	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,279	4,988	42	16	1	8,800.1	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,407	34,688	262	44	6	8,625.5	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,549	8,292	40	22	0	9,348.8	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,620	17,199	542	69	12	11,197.3	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,155	47,016	804	133	9	11,487.6	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,611	35,557	1,631	47	7	7,498.1	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,796	5,846	243	22	9	8,726.9	106.9	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,422	12,106	99	37	3	11,666.4	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,862	12,479	63	37	3	6,147.9	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,180	8,781	135	38	2	10,066.5	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,949	41,032	2,500	133	20	8,720.9	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,333	6,507	72	18	2	8,408.5	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,974	53,877	1,850	139	10	10,390.7	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,537	173,802	4,386	496	45	10,419.6	124.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,762	20,460	1,037	116	43	9,205.3	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,118	10,759	309	31	4	8,716.8	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,324	81,191	2,827	186	21	10,230.1	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,719	31,190	481	77	13	9,076.5	104.0	1.1%