1,092 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,092 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,514 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,348, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,145, 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 17.17%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.58%. 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 290 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 4 from the day prior and an increase of 46 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 234.

The state reported 88 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,059 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 374 in the past week.

DHS reported 5 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,672 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,268 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 4.93, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 15.63.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,018.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,010.5). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, 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, 10,800.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,779.8) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,100.8 (up from 10,082.0).

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 9th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (95.6) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (50-99 is substantial transmission).

The city has moderate transmission based on the positive test rate (5.0%). Moderate transmission is defined as between 5% and 7.9%.

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 16.3%. 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	1,658	8,210	173	10	5	8,089.8	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,216	7,173	80	16	0	7,665.6	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,589	19,588	155	76	0	12,181.8	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,115	6,984	109	19	0	7,333.6	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,920	132,629	3,216	233	39	11,877.3	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,330	5,437	33	7	0	9,845.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,259	6,127	137	21	1	8,150.4	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,655	21,736	633	46	4	10,985.7	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,218	29,588	191	94	2	11,239.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,181	10,973	395	58	4	9,156.3	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,240	27,442	386	56	12	9,172.4	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,684	7,562	57	17	0	10,172.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,817	334,294	1,463	290	23	8,101.7	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,613	41,760	868	161	21	13,018.3	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,545	14,313	212	21	5	9,072.8	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,817	19,394	699	32	17	8,699.9	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,484	19,170	385	31	0	10,014.1	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,320	50,301	339	105	12	11,001.7	102.0	0.9%
Florence	435	1,617	50	12	0	9,839.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,148	45,910	1,201	105	9	11,751.6	101.6	0.9%
Forest	941	4,380	75	23	3	10,248.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,788	23,697	745	84	5	9,141.9	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,407	17,035	113	17	6	9,242.1	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,550	7,961	431	19	3	8,120.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,969	11,262	88	10	1	8,273.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	570	2,617	116	21	19	9,753.6	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,589	9,480	62	26	2	12,541.2	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,150	36,459	1,133	106	22	9,625.0	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,048	14,602	111	21	4	11,327.5	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,114	74,757	2,561	304	15	8,984.1	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,311	7,570	319	26	8	11,194.5	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,504	55,978	772	80	0	10,566.8	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,517	6,665	152	7	1	8,985.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,952	7,215	162	32	14	9,870.1	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,983	10,929	209	60	27	10,488.0	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,388	31,116	1,185	69	18	9,205.8	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,075	51,995	1,472	184	34	10,446.0	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,021	18,903	422	65	3	9,822.2	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,346	6,293	183	21	6	8,752.8	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,799	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	102,009	491,152	9,652	1,268	45	10,800.6	134.3	1.2%
Monroe	4,399	19,198	107	37	1	9,563.5	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,325	17,178	515	49	8	11,393.0	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,532	15,147	151	68	6	9,834.9	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,120	89,051	2,775	201	16	10,946.7	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,956	42,292	965	83	7	9,004.1	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,145	24	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,695	17,083	943	35	6	8,874.7	84.1	0.9%
Polk	4,118	19,706	121	43	6	9,380.4	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,583	27,156	556	67	3	9,308.7	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,188	5,650	101	7	0	8,603.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,862	99,261	2,886	336	28	10,687.3	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,282	8,116	73	15	0	7,238.0	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,038	76,082	1,733	166	20	9,383.2	103.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,275	5,123	51	16	1	8,772.5	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,573	35,070	268	45	6	8,890.3	71.8	0.8%
Sawyer	1,583	8,426	41	23	1	9,554.0	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,643	17,655	564	69	12	11,253.0	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,408	48,059	868	134	9	11,708.5	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,036	36,723	1,663	49	7	7,980.1	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,838	5,987	231	24	8	8,931.0	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,482	12,467	105	39	3	11,871.0	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,887	12,718	70	38	3	6,230.4	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,203	9,043	143	39	2	10,172.7	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,179	42,151	2,633	136	19	8,945.1	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,375	6,612	77	18	2	8,673.4	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,259	55,572	1,960	144	10	10,602.6	107.1	1.0%
Waukesha	42,609	179,318	4,750	505	48	10,688.5	126.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,803	20,999	1,088	116	44	9,284.6	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,129	11,001	316	32	3	8,762.0	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,665	83,196	3,003	190	21	10,431.4	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,799	32,321	482	77	13	9,184.6	104.0	1.1%