517 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 517 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 4,609 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,276, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 41,569, 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 7.88%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 9.95%. 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 239 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 6 from the day prior and the same number as a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 271.

The state reported 40 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,638 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 324 in the past week.

DHS reported 3 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,625 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,261 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 6.17, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 18.13.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,956.7 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,675.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,664.3) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,993.2 (up from 9,984.3).

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 April 1st and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (97.9) 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 (4.9%). 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 13.1%. 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	1,630	8,070	169	10	5	7,953.2	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,202	7,043	77	16	0	7,577.4	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,527	19,387	154	76	0	12,046.6	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,081	6,905	101	19	0	7,110.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,707	131,375	3,123	233	39	11,795.5	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,327	5,378	34	7	0	9,823.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,232	6,062	140	22	1	7,975.7	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,608	21,486	616	46	4	10,894.4	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,182	29,324	190	93	2	11,183.4	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,168	10,861	394	58	4	9,118.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,183	27,218	381	56	12	9,072.6	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,674	7,501	58	17	0	10,111.7	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,150	331,227	1,443	289	23	7,975.5	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,558	41,386	863	159	24	12,956.7	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,526	14,233	211	21	5	9,005.0	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,757	19,157	663	30	17	8,563.2	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,397	18,933	375	31	0	9,819.8	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,256	49,882	342	105	12	10,939.5	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,610	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,089	45,481	1,194	105	8	11,694.5	101.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,332	71	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,732	23,403	735	83	5	9,035.0	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,368	16,871	115	16	6	9,136.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,538	7,886	435	18	3	8,057.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,953	11,154	89	11	1	8,206.2	46.2	0.6%
Iron	567	2,583	118	21	19	9,702.3	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,578	9,440	61	26	2	12,487.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,054	36,048	1,108	103	22	9,511.7	121.6	1.3%
Juneau	3,043	14,512	107	21	2	11,308.9	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	14,999	73,926	2,501	304	15	8,915.7	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,306	7,496	309	24	6	11,170.3	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,419	55,375	772	80	0	10,495.0	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,501	6,582	155	6	1	8,890.6	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,943	7,146	161	32	13	9,824.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,947	10,807	215	60	27	10,361.4	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,362	30,773	1,169	68	18	9,173.4	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,910	51,490	1,452	184	34	10,323.5	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,005	18,694	411	65	3	9,783.1	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,329	6,218	182	21	6	8,642.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,764	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	100,823	485,598	9,590	1,261	45	10,675.0	133.5	1.3%
Monroe	4,378	19,032	108	35	1	9,517.8	76.1	0.8%
Oconto	4,312	17,028	496	48	8	11,358.7	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,504	15,028	148	68	6	9,756.9	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	19,904	87,871	2,706	200	16	10,829.2	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,864	41,710	963	81	7	8,900.0	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	816	3,099	23	7	0	11,103.6	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,627	16,866	936	35	6	8,711.4	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,024	19,523	112	43	5	9,166.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,544	27,024	551	66	3	9,253.5	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,179	5,582	100	7	0	8,538.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,683	98,096	2,844	337	27	10,595.6	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,269	8,050	70	15	0	7,164.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,791	75,266	1,697	163	20	9,229.1	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,271	5,075	53	16	1	8,745.0	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,493	34,873	269	44	6	8,762.7	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,573	8,336	41	23	1	9,493.6	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,609	17,442	575	69	12	11,170.6	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,268	47,613	850	134	9	11,586.3	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,803	36,248	1,646	47	7	7,715.9	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,811	5,936	241	23	9	8,799.8	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,460	12,343	105	38	3	11,796.0	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,877	12,609	65	38	3	6,197.4	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,193	8,950	142	39	2	10,126.5	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,051	41,619	2,606	135	20	8,820.3	131.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,355	6,528	76	18	2	8,547.3	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,079	54,915	1,943	141	10	10,468.7	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,071	177,221	4,644	501	48	10,553.6	125.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,761	20,775	1,082	116	44	9,203.4	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,109	10,901	328	31	4	8,679.7	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,490	82,286	2,951	187	21	10,328.1	110.4	1.1%
Wood	6,756	32,004	483	77	13	9,126.5	104.0	1.1%