569 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 569 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,492 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,431, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,531, 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 17.22%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.04%. 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 288 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 5 from the day prior and an increase of 53 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 233.

The state reported 21 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,140 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 373 in the past week.

DHS reported 1 COVID-19 death. A total of 6,677 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,270 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.07, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 13.20.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,028.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,023.9). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, 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, 10,834.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,819.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,124.6 (up from 10,114.8).

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	1,661	8,242	176	10	5	8,104.4	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,216	7,208	80	16	0	7,665.6	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,602	19,637	152	76	0	12,210.1	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,116	7,006	110	19	0	7,340.2	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,965	132,995	3,241	234	39	11,894.6	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,329	5,456	33	7	0	9,837.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,271	6,147	137	21	1	8,228.1	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,668	21,810	640	46	4	11,011.0	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,222	29,639	191	94	2	11,245.7	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,181	11,011	395	58	4	9,156.3	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,252	27,521	387	56	12	9,193.4	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,690	7,582	57	17	0	10,208.4	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,010	335,184	1,463	290	23	8,138.2	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,622	41,840	871	161	21	13,028.4	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,551	14,346	214	21	5	9,094.1	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,849	19,477	707	32	17	8,772.8	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,504	19,228	385	31	0	10,058.7	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,336	50,445	338	105	12	11,017.3	102.0	0.9%
Florence	434	1,625	50	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,155	46,079	1,200	105	9	11,758.4	101.6	0.9%
Forest	942	4,389	75	23	3	10,259.2	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,795	23,754	746	84	5	9,155.3	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,416	17,092	113	17	6	9,266.5	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,550	7,973	431	19	3	8,120.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,969	11,292	88	10	1	8,273.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	570	2,631	116	21	19	9,753.6	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,591	9,490	62	26	2	12,550.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,156	36,534	1,134	106	22	9,632.1	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,048	14,634	111	21	4	11,327.5	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,131	74,947	2,566	304	15	8,994.2	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,317	7,591	320	26	8	11,223.6	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,515	56,138	772	80	0	10,576.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,527	6,686	152	7	1	9,044.6	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,952	7,228	162	32	14	9,870.1	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,995	10,957	209	60	27	10,530.2	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,393	31,195	1,186	69	18	9,212.0	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,126	52,138	1,483	184	34	10,483.8	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,025	18,966	422	65	3	9,831.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,351	6,311	184	21	6	8,785.3	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,810	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	102,325	492,388	9,670	1,270	45	10,834.0	134.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,405	19,255	107	37	1	9,576.5	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,331	17,228	519	49	8	11,408.8	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,539	15,164	151	68	6	9,854.4	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,171	89,368	2,794	201	16	10,974.4	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,981	42,397	966	83	7	9,032.4	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,153	25	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,702	17,127	945	35	6	8,891.6	84.1	0.9%
Polk	4,129	19,765	121	43	6	9,405.5	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,600	27,219	557	67	3	9,332.7	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,193	5,664	102	7	0	8,639.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,914	99,534	2,897	336	28	10,714.0	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,283	8,129	72	15	0	7,243.7	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,098	76,337	1,754	167	20	9,420.6	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,274	5,139	51	16	1	8,765.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,592	35,146	270	45	6	8,920.7	71.8	0.8%
Sawyer	1,589	8,443	41	23	1	9,590.2	138.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,645	17,700	563	69	12	11,257.9	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,438	48,206	880	134	9	11,734.7	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,079	36,842	1,663	49	7	8,028.9	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,841	6,002	231	24	8	8,945.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,484	12,514	105	39	3	11,877.8	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,891	12,737	70	38	3	6,243.6	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,205	9,063	144	39	2	10,181.9	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,191	42,268	2,651	136	19	8,956.8	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,384	6,642	75	18	2	8,730.2	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,284	55,714	1,963	144	10	10,621.2	107.1	1.0%
Waukesha	42,661	179,806	4,756	506	48	10,701.6	126.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,815	21,042	1,088	116	44	9,307.8	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,128	11,026	316	32	3	8,757.9	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,688	83,426	3,010	190	21	10,445.0	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,830	32,434	482	77	13	9,226.5	104.0	1.1%