776 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 776 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. The DHS dashboard shows 353 new cases were recorded for Tuesday.

DHS didn’t report data on Tuesday due to a technical issue. On Wednesday, DHS reported 2,693,696 cumulative negative tests and a daily count of 5,514 new negative tests. On Monday, DHS reported 2,688,686 cumulative negative tests. Adding Wednesday’s daily count to Monday’s total is higher than Wednesday’s cumulative total, indicating an adjustment was made to the number of cumulative negative tests.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 248 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 31 from the day prior and an increase of 42 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 346.

The state reported 72 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,254 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 312 in the past week.

DHS reported 10 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,597 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,255 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 10.43, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 19.97.

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. Dodge County has recorded 12,946.6 cases per 100,000 residents. 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, 10,580.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,927.2.

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	1,611	7,956	166	10	5	7,860.5	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,193	6,898	76	16	0	7,520.6	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,505	19,231	156	76	0	11,998.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,068	6,824	93	19	0	7,024.5	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,579	130,126	2,985	229	37	11,746.3	88.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,324	5,315	34	7	0	9,800.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,222	6,021	140	22	0	7,910.9	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,565	21,191	600	46	4	10,810.9	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,160	29,066	188	93	2	11,149.2	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,163	10,721	393	58	4	9,104.5	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,149	26,962	380	56	12	9,013.1	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,676	7,439	53	17	0	10,123.8	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,720	328,630	1,506	288	23	7,894.1	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,549	40,981	818	158	24	12,946.6	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,484	14,099	212	21	5	8,855.3	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,717	18,896	618	29	17	8,472.0	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,340	18,674	354	30	0	9,692.5	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,187	49,490	337	105	11	10,872.5	102.0	0.9%
Florence	428	1,598	50	12	0	9,681.1	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,052	44,914	1,185	103	8	11,658.8	99.6	0.9%
Forest	933	4,285	72	23	3	10,161.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,716	23,149	703	83	5	9,004.5	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,297	16,681	113	16	6	8,943.7	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,528	7,782	435	18	3	8,005.0	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,939	11,048	89	10	1	8,147.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	561	2,550	119	21	19	9,599.6	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,584	9,372	50	27	0	12,517.0	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	8,020	35,661	1,033	106	20	9,471.5	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,036	14,402	108	20	2	11,282.9	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,919	73,039	2,441	303	15	8,868.2	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,355	7,410	249	24	6	11,407.7	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,365	54,651	765	80	0	10,449.3	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,487	6,495	155	6	1	8,807.7	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,942	7,058	161	32	13	9,819.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,931	10,662	202	58	19	10,305.2	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,329	30,395	1,160	67	17	9,132.3	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,824	50,917	1,441	184	34	10,259.7	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,991	18,456	410	65	3	9,748.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,324	6,126	181	21	6	8,609.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	794	3,658	3	11	0	18,119.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,933	468,104	9,382	1,255	43	10,580.8	132.9	1.3%
Monroe	4,369	18,827	98	34	1	9,498.2	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,316	16,832	465	49	7	11,369.3	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,471	14,894	146	68	5	9,665.0	189.3	2.0%
Outagamie	19,741	86,526	2,606	198	15	10,740.5	107.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,809	41,152	953	81	7	8,837.7	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	816	3,064	23	7	0	11,103.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,582	16,607	910	35	6	8,603.3	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,021	19,263	88	45	3	9,159.5	102.5	1.1%
Portage	6,534	26,792	542	66	3	9,239.4	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,528	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,599	97,044	2,730	335	26	10,552.6	171.6	1.6%
Richland	1,297	7,971	40	15	0	7,322.7	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,665	74,445	1,597	165	15	9,150.5	103.0	1.1%
Rusk	1,280	5,012	42	16	1	8,806.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,426	34,709	266	44	6	8,655.8	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,554	8,244	40	22	0	9,379.0	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,623	17,250	544	69	12	11,204.6	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,185	47,120	812	133	9	11,513.8	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,637	35,669	1,651	47	7	7,527.6	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,798	5,863	243	23	9	8,736.6	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,425	12,147	101	37	3	11,676.7	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,868	12,483	63	38	3	6,167.7	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,184	8,820	136	39	2	10,085.0	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	8,981	41,140	2,531	133	20	8,752.1	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,341	6,543	77	18	2	8,459.0	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,022	54,134	1,861	139	10	10,426.4	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,696	174,712	4,424	498	45	10,459.5	124.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,770	20,493	1,039	117	43	9,220.8	226.2	2.5%
Waushara	2,120	10,802	312	31	4	8,725.0	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,367	81,388	2,865	186	21	10,255.5	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,728	31,289	484	77	13	9,088.7	104.0	1.1%