402 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 402 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,181 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,526, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,903, 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 17.32%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.18%. 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 304 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 16 from the day prior and an increase of 63 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 226.

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 3 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,680 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,271 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 4.73, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 13.27.

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 13,036.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,028.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Kewaunee, Pepin, Calumet, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,846.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,834.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,131.5 (up from 10,124.6).

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	1,664	8,249	175	10	5	8,119.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,217	7,227	80	16	0	7,671.9	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,605	19,653	152	76	0	12,216.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,116	7,012	110	19	0	7,340.2	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,970	133,103	3,243	234	39	11,896.5	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,329	5,460	33	7	0	9,837.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,272	6,160	137	21	1	8,234.6	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,679	21,831	640	46	4	11,032.3	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,222	29,659	191	94	2	11,245.7	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,182	11,017	395	58	4	9,159.2	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,258	27,548	387	57	12	9,203.9	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,690	7,589	57	17	0	10,208.4	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,061	335,530	1,460	290	23	8,147.8	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,629	41,882	874	161	21	13,036.3	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,551	14,352	214	21	5	9,094.1	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,851	19,489	715	32	17	8,777.4	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,508	19,244	385	31	0	10,067.7	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,338	50,468	340	105	12	11,019.2	102.0	0.9%
Florence	436	1,626	50	12	0	9,862.0	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,166	46,120	1,207	105	9	11,769.0	101.6	0.9%
Forest	942	4,392	75	23	3	10,259.2	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,800	23,769	746	85	5	9,164.9	162.3	1.8%
Green	3,417	17,111	113	17	6	9,269.2	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,550	7,975	431	19	3	8,120.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,969	11,299	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	9,496	62	26	2	12,550.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,167	36,580	1,134	106	22	9,645.1	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,050	14,644	111	21	4	11,334.9	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,132	75,027	2,565	304	15	8,994.8	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,319	7,590	321	26	8	11,233.3	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,515	56,187	772	80	0	10,576.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,527	6,694	152	7	1	9,044.6	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,952	7,236	162	32	14	9,870.1	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,998	10,960	209	60	27	10,540.7	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,393	31,224	1,186	69	18	9,212.0	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,130	52,181	1,485	184	34	10,486.8	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,025	18,994	422	65	3	9,831.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,352	6,318	186	21	6	8,791.8	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,811	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	102,440	492,944	9,673	1,271	45	10,846.2	134.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,404	19,269	108	37	1	9,574.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,331	17,239	519	49	8	11,408.8	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,543	15,177	151	68	6	9,865.5	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,204	89,462	2,802	201	16	10,992.4	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,981	42,441	966	83	7	9,032.4	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,156	25	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,705	17,133	945	35	6	8,898.8	84.1	0.9%
Polk	4,129	19,794	121	43	6	9,405.5	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,599	27,247	558	67	3	9,331.3	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,194	5,671	102	7	0	8,647.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,914	99,615	2,897	336	28	10,714.0	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,286	8,132	72	15	0	7,260.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,104	76,440	1,755	167	20	9,424.4	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,274	5,142	51	16	1	8,765.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,600	35,183	271	45	6	8,933.4	71.8	0.8%
Sawyer	1,590	8,444	41	23	1	9,596.2	138.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,645	17,716	563	69	12	11,257.9	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,451	48,270	883	134	9	11,746.1	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,113	36,903	1,663	49	7	8,067.5	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,841	6,009	231	24	8	8,945.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,485	12,520	105	39	3	11,881.2	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,892	12,747	70	38	3	6,246.9	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,210	9,077	144	39	2	10,205.0	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,193	42,335	2,651	136	19	8,958.7	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,385	6,649	75	18	2	8,736.5	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,286	55,772	1,963	144	10	10,622.7	107.1	1.0%
Waukesha	42,661	180,029	4,756	506	48	10,701.6	126.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,818	21,054	1,089	116	44	9,313.6	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,128	11,033	316	32	3	8,757.9	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,711	83,499	3,017	190	21	10,458.6	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,835	32,451	482	77	13	9,233.2	104.0	1.1%