307 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 307 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 2,809 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,140, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 41,419, 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 10.00%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.84%. 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, an increase of 6 from the day prior and an increase of 14 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 255.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,797 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 331 in the past week.

DHS reported 1 COVID-19 death. 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 5.40, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 16.20.

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 12,976.9). 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, 10,738.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,730.1) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

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	1,638	8,143	171	10	5	7,992.2	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,207	7,114	79	16	0	7,608.9	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,551	19,480	155	76	0	12,099.0	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,095	6,956	105	19	0	7,202.1	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,766	131,884	3,146	233	39	11,818.1	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,329	5,404	33	7	0	9,837.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,245	6,086	137	21	1	8,059.8	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,627	21,590	626	46	4	10,931.3	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,185	29,442	190	94	2	11,188.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,171	10,909	394	58	4	9,127.5	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,210	27,301	384	56	12	9,119.9	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,526	57	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,475	332,740	1,446	289	23	8,037.0	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,576	41,528	860	161	22	12,976.9	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,532	14,249	211	21	5	9,026.4	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,775	19,304	678	30	17	8,604.2	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,423	19,048	383	31	0	9,877.8	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,289	50,082	341	105	12	10,971.6	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,614	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,108	45,702	1,196	105	9	11,712.9	101.6	0.9%
Forest	937	4,353	72	23	3	10,204.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,758	23,555	730	84	5	9,084.7	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,382	16,943	114	16	6	9,174.3	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,546	7,916	431	18	3	8,099.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,954	11,197	89	10	1	8,210.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	569	2,590	117	21	19	9,736.5	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,580	9,460	62	26	2	12,497.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,088	36,215	1,117	103	22	9,551.8	121.6	1.3%
Juneau	3,040	14,552	112	21	4	11,297.8	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,034	74,301	2,512	303	15	8,936.5	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,309	7,529	313	24	6	11,184.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,468	55,614	769	80	0	10,536.4	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,509	6,629	151	7	1	8,938.0	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,945	7,182	161	32	13	9,834.7	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,956	10,843	214	60	27	10,393.1	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,365	30,922	1,178	68	18	9,177.1	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,965	51,664	1,459	184	34	10,364.3	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,010	18,776	412	65	3	9,795.3	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,336	6,255	181	21	6	8,687.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,771	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	101,420	488,051	9,594	1,263	45	10,738.2	133.7	1.2%
Monroe	4,388	19,107	106	36	1	9,539.5	78.3	0.8%
Oconto	4,315	17,094	503	49	8	11,366.6	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,515	15,079	150	68	6	9,787.5	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,000	88,418	2,736	200	16	10,881.4	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,905	41,933	962	82	7	8,946.4	92.8	1.0%
Pepin	817	3,117	23	7	0	11,117.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,661	16,981	935	35	6	8,793.1	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,035	19,607	118	43	5	9,191.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,556	27,120	560	67	3	9,270.5	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,185	5,613	99	7	0	8,582.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,741	98,647	2,873	336	28	10,625.3	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,275	8,083	71	15	0	7,198.5	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,901	75,670	1,707	164	20	9,297.7	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,096	53	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,518	34,941	266	44	6	8,802.6	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,577	8,372	41	23	1	9,517.8	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,628	17,509	563	69	12	11,216.7	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,324	47,793	851	134	9	11,635.2	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,921	36,460	1,655	48	7	7,849.7	54.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,823	5,963	235	24	8	8,858.1	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,471	12,393	104	38	3	11,833.5	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,880	12,664	68	38	3	6,207.3	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,197	8,985	142	39	2	10,145.0	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,072	41,871	2,608	136	19	8,840.8	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,363	6,577	74	18	2	8,597.7	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,138	55,199	1,949	141	10	10,512.6	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,234	178,170	4,653	503	48	10,594.5	126.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,789	20,878	1,080	116	44	9,257.5	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,122	10,948	317	31	4	8,733.2	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,528	82,683	2,947	189	21	10,350.5	111.6	1.1%
Wood	6,764	32,123	482	77	13	9,137.3	104.0	1.1%