296 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 296 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,183 processed tests.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 227 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 3 from the day prior and an increase of 24 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 304.

The state reported 33 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,466 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 340 in the past week.

DHS reported 3 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,601 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,258 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 6.30, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 20.03.

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 18,028.3 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,948.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,945.5). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown,, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Kewaunee, Chippewa, Shawano, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,640.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,631.5) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,964.3 (up from 9,959.2).

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	1,624	8,037	166	10	5	7,923.9	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,198	7,008	75	16	0	7,552.2	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,516	19,313	155	76	0	12,022.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,079	6,888	92	19	0	7,096.8	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,615	130,877	3,073	231	38	11,760.1	88.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,325	5,352	34	7	0	9,808.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,227	6,038	139	22	0	7,943.3	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,593	21,373	610	46	4	10,865.3	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,170	29,220	189	93	2	11,164.7	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,166	10,809	393	58	4	9,113.2	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,170	27,122	381	56	12	9,049.9	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,476	54	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,002	329,963	1,482	288	23	7,947.5	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,551	41,200	849	158	24	12,948.8	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,512	14,213	209	21	5	8,955.1	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,744	19,078	648	29	17	8,533.5	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,374	18,840	368	30	0	9,768.4	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,221	49,687	338	105	11	10,905.5	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,610	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,066	45,235	1,193	103	8	11,672.3	99.6	0.9%
Forest	935	4,308	71	23	3	10,183.0	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,726	23,321	710	83	5	9,023.6	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,347	16,812	114	16	6	9,079.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,536	7,844	432	18	3	8,046.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,949	11,115	89	10	1	8,189.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	565	2,568	118	21	19	9,668.0	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,580	9,418	58	26	2	12,497.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,031	35,907	1,085	105	21	9,484.5	124.0	1.3%
Juneau	3,039	14,464	106	21	2	11,294.0	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	14,948	73,546	2,486	303	15	8,885.4	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,317	7,471	291	24	6	11,223.6	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,394	55,083	769	80	0	10,473.8	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,493	6,541	156	6	1	8,843.2	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,942	7,116	161	32	13	9,819.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,941	10,748	206	58	20	10,340.3	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,347	30,624	1,166	68	18	9,154.7	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,865	51,302	1,447	184	34	10,290.1	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,999	18,582	411	65	3	9,768.4	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,325	6,186	181	21	6	8,616.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	790	3,757	7	11	0	18,028.3	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	100,498	471,627	9,499	1,258	43	10,640.6	133.2	1.3%
Monroe	4,377	18,942	105	34	1	9,515.6	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,315	16,948	481	49	7	11,366.6	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,497	14,963	146	69	5	9,737.4	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,834	87,301	2,655	197	16	10,791.1	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,840	41,496	955	81	7	8,872.8	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	816	3,083	24	7	0	11,103.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,610	16,774	920	35	6	8,670.6	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,019	19,414	101	44	4	9,154.9	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,538	26,939	543	66	3	9,245.0	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,560	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,645	97,586	2,782	335	26	10,576.2	171.6	1.6%
Richland	1,274	8,021	66	15	0	7,192.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,747	74,961	1,646	163	16	9,201.6	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	5,048	50	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,471	34,835	268	44	6	8,727.6	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,565	8,298	40	23	0	9,445.3	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,604	17,368	564	69	12	11,158.5	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,236	47,445	834	133	9	11,558.3	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,736	35,977	1,639	47	7	7,639.9	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,804	5,911	241	23	9	8,765.8	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,451	12,264	104	38	3	11,765.3	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,874	12,551	64	38	3	6,187.5	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,188	8,887	142	39	2	10,103.4	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,010	41,450	2,563	134	20	8,780.4	130.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,350	6,473	75	18	2	8,515.7	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,045	54,646	1,916	139	10	10,443.5	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,855	176,412	4,534	498	45	10,499.4	124.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,762	20,660	1,068	116	44	9,205.3	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,112	10,852	321	31	4	8,692.1	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,450	81,975	2,921	186	21	10,304.5	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,745	31,516	483	77	13	9,111.7	104.0	1.1%