584 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 584 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,209 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,129, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 41,793, 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 9.88%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.87%. 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 235 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 6 from the day prior and an increase of 5 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 257.

The state reported 28 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,767 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 334 in the past week.

DHS reported -1 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,639 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,263 in Milwaukee County. The DHS website includes this note regarding the potential for reporting negative values:

Our goal is to provide the highest quality COVID-19 data with full transparency. In recent weeks, DHS has been able to ramp up data quality assurance efforts in the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS), which includes correcting case status from “confirmed” or “probable” where appropriate, ensuring completeness of data fields, and reducing unknowns. Due to these efforts, data displayed on the website may change over time. In particular, dashboards and data tables that track cumulative cases or deaths, as well as those showing newly reported numbers each day may appear lower than expected – in some counties, substantially lower or even negative. For more information on this effort, and details on why the cases and deaths might go up or down from one day to the next, visit our Data 101 webpage.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.40, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 17.53.

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 12,976.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,974.6). 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, 10,730.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,711.6) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,030.7 (up from 10,020.5).

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	1,637	8,139	171	10	5	7,987.3	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,207	7,100	79	16	0	7,608.9	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,551	19,463	155	76	0	12,099.0	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,092	6,947	105	19	0	7,182.3	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,766	131,786	3,146	233	39	11,818.1	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,329	5,401	33	7	0	9,837.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,245	6,083	137	21	1	8,059.8	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,626	21,578	623	46	4	10,929.4	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,185	29,420	190	93	2	11,188.1	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,171	10,905	394	58	4	9,127.5	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,209	27,287	384	56	12	9,118.1	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,524	57	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,398	332,390	1,445	289	23	8,022.4	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,576	41,494	860	161	22	12,976.9	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,532	14,247	211	21	5	9,026.4	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,767	19,278	676	30	17	8,586.0	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,423	19,033	384	31	0	9,877.8	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,289	50,032	341	105	12	10,971.6	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,612	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,104	45,667	1,194	105	9	11,709.1	101.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,347	72	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,756	23,531	731	84	5	9,080.8	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,381	16,926	114	16	6	9,171.5	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,546	7,907	431	18	3	8,099.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,954	11,192	89	10	1	8,210.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	569	2,588	117	21	19	9,736.5	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,580	9,455	62	26	2	12,497.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,088	36,169	1,117	103	22	9,551.8	121.6	1.3%
Juneau	3,040	14,548	112	21	4	11,297.8	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,032	74,232	2,514	303	15	8,935.3	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,307	7,527	312	24	6	11,175.2	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,468	55,578	769	80	0	10,536.4	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,509	6,622	151	7	1	8,938.0	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,945	7,175	161	32	13	9,834.7	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,956	10,840	214	60	27	10,393.1	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,365	30,896	1,178	68	18	9,177.1	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,959	51,621	1,458	184	34	10,359.9	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,010	18,767	412	65	3	9,795.3	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,336	6,253	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	101,344	487,620	9,593	1,263	45	10,730.1	133.7	1.2%
Monroe	4,388	19,094	106	36	1	9,539.5	78.3	0.8%
Oconto	4,315	17,081	503	49	8	11,366.6	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,515	15,067	150	68	6	9,787.5	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	19,982	88,339	2,729	200	16	10,871.6	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,905	41,909	962	82	7	8,946.4	92.8	1.0%
Pepin	817	3,115	23	7	0	11,117.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,657	16,959	935	35	6	8,783.5	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,035	19,590	118	43	5	9,191.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,556	27,100	560	67	3	9,270.5	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,183	5,610	99	7	0	8,567.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,741	98,545	2,873	336	28	10,625.3	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,274	8,076	71	15	0	7,192.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,882	75,569	1,706	164	20	9,285.9	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,090	53	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,508	34,914	266	44	6	8,786.7	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,578	8,367	41	23	1	9,523.8	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,628	17,494	563	69	12	11,216.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,296	47,740	849	134	9	11,610.7	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,889	36,425	1,653	48	7	7,813.4	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,823	5,959	235	24	8	8,858.1	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,469	12,386	104	38	3	11,826.7	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,878	12,658	68	38	3	6,200.7	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,197	8,978	142	39	2	10,145.0	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,071	41,813	2,608	136	19	8,839.8	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,362	6,571	74	18	2	8,591.4	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,138	55,142	1,949	141	10	10,512.6	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,234	177,977	4,653	503	48	10,594.5	126.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,786	20,864	1,080	116	44	9,251.7	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,122	10,942	317	31	4	8,733.2	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,527	82,593	2,947	189	21	10,349.9	111.6	1.1%
Wood	6,764	32,095	482	77	13	9,137.3	104.0	1.1%