922 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 922 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,885 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,562, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,480, 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 17.12%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.61%. 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 317 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 13 from the day prior and an increase of 42 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 212.

The state reported 70 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,244 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 373 in the past week.

DHS reported 10 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,690 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,273 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.13, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 12.83.

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 13,047.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,036.3). 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, 10,859.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,846.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,147.5 (up from 10,131.5).

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	1,665	8,254	175	10	5	8,123.9	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,218	7,240	80	16	0	7,678.2	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,608	19,664	152	76	0	12,223.2	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,115	7,021	114	19	0	7,333.6	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,029	133,233	3,282	234	39	11,919.1	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,331	5,469	33	7	0	9,852.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,275	6,167	137	21	1	8,254.0	135.9	1.6%
Calumet	5,685	21,864	641	46	4	11,044.0	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,236	29,690	191	94	2	11,267.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,184	11,032	395	58	4	9,165.0	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,261	27,574	389	57	12	9,209.1	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,690	7,599	57	17	0	10,208.4	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,107	335,783	1,469	290	23	8,156.5	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,639	41,908	875	162	21	13,047.5	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,552	14,377	215	22	5	9,097.7	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,861	19,515	715	32	17	8,800.2	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,511	19,255	384	31	0	10,074.4	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,344	50,537	341	105	12	11,025.0	102.0	0.9%
Florence	438	1,627	51	12	0	9,907.3	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,175	46,122	1,208	105	9	11,777.7	101.6	0.9%
Forest	944	4,403	75	23	3	10,281.0	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,809	23,792	748	85	5	9,182.0	162.3	1.8%
Green	3,417	17,121	113	17	6	9,269.2	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,553	7,979	435	19	3	8,136.0	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,976	11,309	88	10	1	8,302.9	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,634	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,596	9,502	62	26	2	12,575.1	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,180	36,610	1,145	106	22	9,660.5	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,052	14,649	110	21	5	11,342.4	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,174	75,105	2,568	304	15	9,019.7	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,318	7,599	323	26	8	11,228.4	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,522	56,278	773	80	0	10,582.0	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,529	6,708	152	7	1	9,056.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,952	7,257	162	32	14	9,870.1	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,005	10,975	212	60	27	10,565.4	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,403	31,238	1,191	69	18	9,224.5	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,152	52,261	1,487	184	34	10,503.1	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,034	19,014	426	65	3	9,853.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,353	6,322	186	21	6	8,798.3	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,816	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	102,568	493,442	9,686	1,273	45	10,859.7	134.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,411	19,288	111	37	1	9,589.5	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,337	17,258	521	49	8	11,424.6	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,545	15,198	152	68	6	9,871.1	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,219	89,608	2,811	201	16	11,000.5	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,000	42,489	969	83	7	9,053.9	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,157	25	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,711	17,160	945	35	6	8,913.2	84.1	0.9%
Polk	4,155	19,810	122	43	6	9,464.7	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,615	27,264	556	67	3	9,353.9	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,196	5,674	102	7	0	8,661.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,981	99,766	2,901	337	28	10,748.3	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,286	8,140	72	15	0	7,260.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,134	76,518	1,762	167	20	9,443.1	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,275	5,152	51	16	1	8,772.5	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,604	35,191	270	46	6	8,939.8	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,591	8,457	41	23	1	9,602.3	138.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,658	17,745	563	69	12	11,289.4	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,462	48,318	884	134	9	11,755.7	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,134	36,952	1,666	50	7	8,091.3	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,842	6,014	232	24	8	8,950.4	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,486	12,534	105	39	3	11,884.6	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,892	12,756	70	39	3	6,246.9	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,213	9,092	144	39	2	10,218.9	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,213	42,394	2,665	136	19	8,978.2	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,389	6,660	75	18	2	8,761.7	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,309	55,835	1,993	144	10	10,639.8	107.1	1.0%
Waukesha	42,781	180,235	4,780	507	48	10,731.7	127.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,828	21,084	1,087	117	44	9,332.9	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,131	11,046	316	32	3	8,770.3	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,750	83,605	3,015	190	21	10,481.6	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,837	32,509	482	77	13	9,235.9	104.0	1.1%