434 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 434 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 4,825 processed tests.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 226 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 13 from the day prior and an increase of 13 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 355.

The state reported 39 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,353 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 329 in the past week.

DHS reported -2 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,597 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,257 in Milwaukee County. The DHS website includes this note regarding the potential for reporting negative values:

Our goal is to provide the highest quality COVID-19 data with full transparency. In recent weeks, DHS has been able to ramp up data quality assurance efforts in the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS), which includes correcting case status from “confirmed” or “probable” where appropriate, ensuring completeness of data fields, and reducing unknowns. Due to these efforts, data displayed on the website may change over time. In particular, dashboards and data tables that track cumulative cases or deaths, as well as those showing newly reported numbers each day may appear lower than expected – in some counties, substantially lower or even negative. For more information on this effort, and details on why the cases and deaths might go up or down from one day to the next, visit our Data 101 webpage.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.50, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 21.43.

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 18,073.9 cases per 100,000 residents (adjusted down). Dodge County has recorded 12,952.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,951.1). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Kewaunee, Juneau, Chippewa, Shawano, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,606.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,594.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,944.0 (up from 9,936.5).

The City of Milwaukee revised its gating criteria on March 26th 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 26th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (68.3) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (50-99 is substantial transmission).

The city has low transmission based on the positive test rate (3.8%). 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 10.4%. 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	1,616	7,993	167	10	5	7,884.8	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,196	6,953	75	16	0	7,539.6	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,508	19,279	157	76	0	12,005.2	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,072	6,861	92	19	0	7,050.8	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,575	130,502	3,057	230	38	11,744.8	88.3	0.8%
Buffalo	1,322	5,334	36	7	0	9,786.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,225	6,016	139	22	0	7,930.3	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,582	21,270	606	46	4	10,843.9	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,167	29,142	188	93	2	11,160.1	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,164	10,765	393	58	4	9,107.4	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,160	27,035	380	56	12	9,032.3	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,678	7,457	54	17	0	10,135.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,852	329,254	1,487	288	23	7,919.1	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,554	41,067	838	158	24	12,952.2	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,503	14,166	210	21	5	8,923.0	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,729	18,977	633	29	17	8,499.3	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,355	18,772	361	30	0	9,726.0	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,217	49,616	338	105	11	10,901.6	102.0	0.9%
Florence	429	1,604	50	12	0	9,703.7	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,059	45,059	1,189	103	8	11,665.5	99.6	0.9%
Forest	935	4,301	71	23	3	10,183.0	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,722	23,236	708	83	5	9,015.9	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,320	16,748	114	16	6	9,006.1	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,531	7,806	435	18	3	8,020.7	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,947	11,085	89	10	1	8,181.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	564	2,557	118	21	19	9,650.9	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,586	9,399	52	27	1	12,526.6	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	8,022	35,772	1,066	105	21	9,473.9	124.0	1.3%
Juneau	3,038	14,445	107	20	2	11,290.3	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,917	73,249	2,469	303	15	8,867.0	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,335	7,445	272	24	6	11,310.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,388	54,860	771	80	0	10,468.8	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,488	6,521	155	6	1	8,813.6	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,942	7,084	161	32	13	9,819.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,938	10,708	204	58	20	10,329.8	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,345	30,525	1,161	68	17	9,152.2	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,848	51,091	1,441	184	34	10,277.5	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,997	18,503	410	65	3	9,763.5	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,325	6,156	181	21	6	8,616.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,754	5	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	100,179	469,734	9,474	1,257	43	10,606.8	133.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,369	18,866	103	34	1	9,498.2	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,313	16,887	477	49	7	11,361.4	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,487	14,915	146	68	5	9,709.6	189.3	2.0%
Outagamie	19,789	86,932	2,629	197	16	10,766.6	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,825	41,323	955	81	7	8,855.8	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	816	3,074	24	7	0	11,103.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,600	16,669	916	35	6	8,646.6	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,024	19,330	95	44	4	9,166.3	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,535	26,845	544	66	3	9,240.8	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,548	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,618	97,282	2,750	335	26	10,562.3	171.6	1.6%
Richland	1,284	7,997	55	15	0	7,249.3	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,688	74,684	1,628	163	16	9,164.8	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,033	50	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,445	34,800	268	44	6	8,686.2	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,560	8,269	40	22	0	9,415.2	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,603	17,322	565	69	12	11,156.1	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,211	47,286	819	133	9	11,536.5	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,666	35,824	1,653	47	7	7,560.5	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,800	5,876	243	23	9	8,746.4	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,440	12,178	100	38	3	11,727.8	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,869	12,506	64	38	3	6,171.0	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,186	8,855	140	39	2	10,094.2	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	8,995	41,288	2,553	134	20	8,765.8	130.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,345	6,445	78	18	2	8,484.2	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,031	54,361	1,894	139	10	10,433.1	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,802	175,546	4,487	498	45	10,486.1	124.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,746	20,582	1,072	116	44	9,174.4	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,110	10,835	322	31	4	8,683.8	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,410	81,706	2,911	186	21	10,280.8	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,735	31,399	483	77	13	9,098.2	104.0	1.1%