875 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 875 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 4,191 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,717, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 40,935, 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 9.08%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.39%. 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 244 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 5 from the day prior an increase of 18 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 267.

The state reported 47 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,685 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 332 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,633 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,262 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.83, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 18.70.

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 12,967.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,956.7). 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, 10,694.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,675.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,008.3 (up from 9,993.2).

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 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	1,631	8,094	169	10	5	7,958.0	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,205	7,050	78	16	0	7,596.3	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,532	19,414	154	76	0	12,057.5	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,084	6,913	102	19	0	7,129.7	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,725	131,512	3,134	233	39	11,802.4	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,327	5,385	34	7	0	9,823.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,233	6,074	138	21	1	7,982.1	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,615	21,522	617	46	4	10,908.0	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,185	29,358	190	93	2	11,188.1	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,170	10,882	394	58	4	9,124.7	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,193	27,232	384	56	12	9,090.1	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,676	7,513	58	17	0	10,123.8	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,237	331,537	1,441	289	23	7,991.9	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,568	41,417	860	160	23	12,967.9	179.4	1.4%
Door	2,527	14,228	211	21	5	9,008.6	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,763	19,200	666	30	17	8,576.8	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,417	18,959	375	31	0	9,864.4	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,272	49,924	339	105	12	10,955.1	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,611	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,093	45,562	1,194	105	9	11,698.4	101.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,337	71	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,739	23,423	737	84	5	9,048.4	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,372	16,896	114	16	6	9,147.1	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,543	7,897	430	18	3	8,083.6	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,952	11,171	89	10	1	8,202.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	568	2,584	117	21	19	9,719.4	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,578	9,445	61	26	2	12,487.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,062	36,088	1,112	103	22	9,521.1	121.6	1.3%
Juneau	3,044	14,517	110	21	4	11,312.6	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,013	74,035	2,504	303	15	8,924.0	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,309	7,501	309	24	6	11,184.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,444	55,438	771	80	0	10,516.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,506	6,594	153	7	1	8,920.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,944	7,156	161	32	13	9,829.6	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,955	10,819	214	60	27	10,389.6	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,365	30,800	1,171	68	18	9,177.1	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,922	51,521	1,452	184	34	10,332.4	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,008	18,707	411	65	3	9,790.4	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,330	6,226	182	21	6	8,648.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,769	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	101,011	486,274	9,590	1,262	45	10,694.9	133.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,383	19,050	108	36	1	9,528.7	78.3	0.8%
Oconto	4,312	17,042	499	49	8	11,358.7	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,512	15,039	149	68	6	9,779.2	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	19,931	88,071	2,715	200	16	10,843.9	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,875	41,779	962	82	7	8,912.4	92.8	1.0%
Pepin	817	3,103	23	7	0	11,117.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,638	16,902	933	35	6	8,737.8	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,029	19,544	113	43	5	9,177.7	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,549	27,037	554	66	3	9,260.6	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,181	5,587	100	7	0	8,553.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,704	98,240	2,855	337	27	10,606.4	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,273	8,057	70	15	0	7,187.2	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,837	75,370	1,687	163	20	9,257.8	101.7	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,082	53	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,498	34,832	268	44	6	8,770.7	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,576	8,349	41	23	1	9,511.7	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,616	17,465	569	69	12	11,187.6	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,281	47,642	850	134	9	11,597.6	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,841	36,320	1,650	47	7	7,759.0	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,813	5,939	240	23	9	8,809.5	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,465	12,358	105	38	3	11,813.0	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,882	12,627	64	38	3	6,213.9	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,195	8,956	142	39	2	10,135.8	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,067	41,666	2,612	135	20	8,835.9	131.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,357	6,538	74	18	2	8,559.9	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,101	54,987	1,943	141	10	10,485.1	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,144	177,458	4,646	503	48	10,571.9	126.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,770	20,810	1,082	116	44	9,220.8	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,120	10,916	318	31	4	8,725.0	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,516	82,404	2,952	189	21	10,343.4	111.6	1.1%
Wood	6,758	32,027	482	77	13	9,129.2	104.0	1.1%