706 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 706 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,311 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,973, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 41,504, 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 9.57%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.59%. 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 241 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 3 from the day prior an increase of 22 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 262.

The state reported 54 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,739 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 336 in the past week.

DHS reported 7 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,640 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,263 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.67, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 17.70.

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 12,974.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,967.9). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Kewaunee, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,711.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,694.9) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,020.5 (up from 10,008.3).

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 vaccine) 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	1,635	8,119	168	10	5	7,977.6	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,207	7,075	79	16	0	7,608.9	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,541	19,437	154	76	0	12,077.2	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,088	6,927	104	20	0	7,156.0	131.5	1.8%
Brown	30,758	131,667	3,142	233	39	11,815.0	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,329	5,397	33	7	0	9,837.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,244	6,079	137	21	1	8,053.3	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,613	21,546	618	46	4	10,904.1	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,185	29,389	190	93	2	11,188.1	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,170	10,891	394	58	4	9,124.7	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,203	27,253	384	56	12	9,107.6	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,521	57	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,318	331,956	1,443	289	23	8,007.3	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,574	41,459	860	161	22	12,974.6	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,530	14,233	211	21	5	9,019.3	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,766	19,233	674	30	17	8,583.7	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,420	18,992	378	31	0	9,871.1	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,275	49,973	340	105	12	10,958.0	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,611	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,098	45,614	1,192	105	9	11,703.2	101.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,343	72	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,745	23,454	738	84	5	9,059.8	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,377	16,908	114	16	6	9,160.7	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,545	7,904	428	18	3	8,094.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,954	11,184	89	10	1	8,210.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	569	2,586	117	21	19	9,736.5	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,580	9,449	62	26	2	12,497.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,057	36,116	1,117	103	22	9,515.2	121.6	1.3%
Juneau	3,042	14,532	112	21	4	11,305.2	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,031	74,123	2,514	303	15	8,934.7	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,307	7,515	312	24	6	11,175.2	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,460	55,512	771	80	0	10,529.6	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,508	6,612	151	7	1	8,932.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,944	7,163	161	32	13	9,829.6	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,956	10,830	214	60	27	10,393.1	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,365	30,861	1,178	68	18	9,177.1	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,941	51,563	1,458	184	34	10,346.5	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,010	18,738	412	65	3	9,795.3	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,336	6,243	181	21	6	8,687.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,770	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	101,169	487,008	9,585	1,263	45	10,711.6	133.7	1.2%
Monroe	4,385	19,070	108	36	1	9,533.0	78.3	0.8%
Oconto	4,311	17,069	501	49	8	11,356.1	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,512	15,056	150	68	6	9,779.2	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	19,953	88,195	2,720	200	16	10,855.8	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,891	41,834	961	82	7	8,930.5	92.8	1.0%
Pepin	817	3,106	23	7	0	11,117.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,652	16,935	933	35	6	8,771.5	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,035	19,573	118	43	5	9,191.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,553	27,057	559	67	3	9,266.3	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,183	5,598	99	7	0	8,567.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,720	98,404	2,867	336	28	10,614.6	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,273	8,068	71	15	0	7,187.2	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,858	75,487	1,700	164	20	9,270.9	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,084	53	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,500	34,869	267	44	6	8,773.9	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,576	8,354	41	23	1	9,511.7	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,628	17,483	563	69	12	11,216.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,284	47,687	849	134	9	11,600.2	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,868	36,375	1,651	48	7	7,789.6	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,822	5,947	235	24	8	8,853.3	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,469	12,376	104	38	3	11,826.7	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,878	12,645	68	38	3	6,200.7	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,195	8,971	142	39	2	10,135.8	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,071	41,714	2,608	136	19	8,839.8	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,360	6,551	74	18	2	8,578.8	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,127	55,056	1,948	141	10	10,504.4	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,232	177,706	4,653	503	48	10,594.0	126.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,778	20,842	1,083	116	44	9,236.2	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,122	10,931	317	31	4	8,733.2	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,527	82,490	2,947	189	21	10,349.9	111.6	1.1%
Wood	6,758	32,068	482	77	13	9,129.2	104.0	1.1%