1,046 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,046 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 5,846 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,131, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 29,822, 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 17.21%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.78%. 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 286 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 18 from the day prior and an increase of 47 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 244.

The state reported 77 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,971 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 333 in the past week.

DHS reported 14 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,667 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,266 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.23, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 15.20.

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 18,073.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,028.3). Dodge County has recorded 13,010.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,999.3). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Kewaunee, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,779.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,759.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,082.0 ( up from 10,063.9).

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	1,652	8,193	176	10	5	8,060.5	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,213	7,161	80	16	0	7,646.7	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,572	19,554	155	76	0	12,144.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,114	6,978	109	19	0	7,327.0	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,882	132,410	3,196	233	39	11,862.7	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,330	5,426	33	7	0	9,845.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,256	6,111	137	21	1	8,131.0	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,643	21,686	634	46	4	10,962.4	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,209	29,554	191	94	2	11,225.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,178	10,963	395	58	4	9,147.7	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,239	27,415	386	56	12	9,170.6	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,682	7,557	57	17	0	10,160.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,708	333,924	1,460	290	23	8,081.0	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,606	41,720	868	161	21	13,010.5	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,544	14,308	212	21	5	9,069.2	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,801	19,355	694	32	17	8,663.4	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,472	19,132	386	31	0	9,987.3	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,311	50,250	338	105	12	10,993.0	102.0	0.9%
Florence	435	1,616	50	12	0	9,839.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,137	45,830	1,198	105	9	11,741.0	101.6	0.9%
Forest	941	4,375	75	23	3	10,248.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,777	23,663	744	84	5	9,120.9	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,399	17,021	113	17	6	9,220.4	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,548	7,949	431	19	3	8,109.8	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,965	11,246	88	10	1	8,256.6	42.0	0.5%
Iron	570	2,612	116	21	19	9,753.6	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,586	9,464	62	26	2	12,526.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,138	36,413	1,130	106	22	9,610.9	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,046	14,590	112	21	4	11,320.1	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,099	74,616	2,554	304	15	8,975.2	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,310	7,560	318	26	8	11,189.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,495	55,909	770	80	0	10,559.2	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,514	6,658	152	7	1	8,967.6	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,951	7,208	162	32	14	9,865.0	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,978	10,915	211	60	27	10,470.4	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,384	31,073	1,185	68	18	9,200.8	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	14,032	51,914	1,464	184	34	10,414.1	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,018	18,867	421	65	3	9,814.8	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,345	6,286	183	21	6	8,746.3	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,792	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	101,813	490,101	9,625	1,266	45	10,779.8	134.0	1.2%
Monroe	4,396	19,172	107	37	1	9,556.9	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,319	17,155	513	49	8	11,377.2	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,527	15,143	151	68	6	9,821.0	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,079	88,843	2,779	201	16	10,924.4	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,940	42,128	966	83	7	8,986.0	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,142	24	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,679	17,050	944	35	6	8,836.3	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,078	19,678	121	43	6	9,289.3	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,580	27,150	558	67	3	9,304.4	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,188	5,646	101	7	0	8,603.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,830	99,132	2,881	336	28	10,670.9	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,277	8,109	73	15	0	7,209.8	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,985	75,960	1,726	166	20	9,350.1	103.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	5,113	52	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,562	35,038	269	45	6	8,872.8	71.8	0.8%
Sawyer	1,580	8,408	41	23	1	9,535.9	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,641	17,619	564	69	12	11,248.2	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,387	47,995	863	134	9	11,690.2	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,999	36,648	1,661	49	7	7,938.2	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,831	5,986	235	24	8	8,897.0	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,482	12,451	104	38	3	11,871.0	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,884	12,701	70	38	3	6,220.5	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,201	9,030	142	39	2	10,163.5	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,153	42,066	2,636	136	19	8,919.7	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,370	6,603	75	18	2	8,641.9	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,213	55,476	1,962	143	10	10,568.4	106.3	1.0%
Waukesha	42,525	179,075	4,736	505	48	10,667.5	126.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,799	20,967	1,085	116	44	9,276.8	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,129	10,980	316	32	3	8,762.0	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,638	83,048	2,997	190	21	10,415.5	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,790	32,270	483	77	13	9,172.5	104.0	1.1%