588 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 588 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,751 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,509, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,725, 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 11.42%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.67%. 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 250 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 23 from the day prior and an increase of 33 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 290.

The state reported 65 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,531 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 349 in the past week.

DHS reported 11 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,612 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 6.67, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 18.40.

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 18,005.5 cases per 100,000 residents (adjusted down). Dodge County has recorded 12,954.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,948.8). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Chippewa, Kewaunee, Shawano, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,652.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,640.6) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,974.5 (up from 9,964.3).

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	1,623	8,047	168	10	5	7,919.0	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,198	7,018	75	16	0	7,552.2	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,517	19,334	155	76	0	12,024.8	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,079	6,890	95	19	0	7,096.8	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,664	130,995	3,091	232	38	11,778.9	89.1	0.8%
Buffalo	1,326	5,355	34	7	0	9,815.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,230	6,029	140	22	1	7,962.7	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,596	21,412	611	46	4	10,871.1	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,177	29,252	188	93	2	11,175.6	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,167	10,827	394	58	4	9,116.0	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,172	27,162	381	56	12	9,053.4	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,486	54	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,037	330,025	1,468	288	23	7,954.1	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,556	41,237	851	158	24	12,954.4	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,514	14,228	211	21	5	8,962.2	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,750	19,125	648	30	17	8,547.2	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,383	18,867	371	30	0	9,788.5	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,227	49,744	338	105	12	10,911.3	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,609	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,073	45,294	1,196	104	8	11,679.1	100.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,315	71	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,728	23,347	721	83	5	9,027.4	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,353	16,817	114	16	6	9,095.6	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,536	7,852	432	18	3	8,046.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,950	11,122	89	11	1	8,193.6	46.2	0.6%
Iron	567	2,575	118	21	19	9,702.3	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,578	9,422	60	26	2	12,487.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,036	35,950	1,087	105	21	9,490.4	124.0	1.3%
Juneau	3,038	14,472	106	21	2	11,290.3	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	14,969	73,642	2,488	303	15	8,897.9	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,306	7,481	303	24	6	11,170.3	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,406	55,176	773	80	0	10,484.0	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,497	6,552	155	6	1	8,866.9	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,942	7,132	161	32	13	9,819.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,944	10,768	209	58	20	10,350.9	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,356	30,669	1,167	68	18	9,165.9	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,872	51,372	1,448	184	34	10,295.3	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,000	18,616	411	65	3	9,770.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,328	6,190	181	21	6	8,635.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,763	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	100,606	472,146	9,525	1,258	43	10,652.0	133.2	1.3%
Monroe	4,377	18,974	107	34	1	9,515.6	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,314	16,974	485	49	7	11,364.0	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,498	14,989	146	69	5	9,740.2	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,856	87,451	2,676	198	16	10,803.0	107.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,848	41,561	958	81	7	8,881.8	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	816	3,085	24	7	0	11,103.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,617	16,805	921	35	6	8,687.4	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,027	19,461	103	44	4	9,173.1	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,539	26,969	545	66	3	9,246.5	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,569	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,660	97,738	2,805	337	26	10,583.9	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,272	8,031	67	15	0	7,181.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,763	75,035	1,651	164	17	9,211.6	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	5,064	51	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,475	34,818	268	44	6	8,734.0	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,567	8,314	41	23	0	9,457.4	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,606	17,391	569	69	12	11,163.4	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,243	47,504	841	133	9	11,564.4	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,757	36,098	1,642	47	7	7,663.7	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,805	5,920	241	23	9	8,770.7	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,458	12,299	104	38	3	11,789.2	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,875	12,577	64	38	3	6,190.8	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,193	8,901	142	39	2	10,126.5	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,031	41,497	2,585	135	20	8,800.9	131.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,350	6,505	76	18	2	8,515.7	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,058	54,740	1,929	139	10	10,453.1	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,975	176,650	4,577	499	46	10,529.5	125.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,756	20,693	1,077	116	44	9,193.7	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,111	10,876	323	31	4	8,688.0	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,458	82,050	2,938	187	21	10,309.2	110.4	1.1%
Wood	6,746	31,544	483	77	13	9,113.0	104.0	1.1%