709 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 709 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 4,738 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,278, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,406, 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 16.29%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 16.72%. 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 309 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 16 from the day prior and an increase of 19 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 206.

The state reported 69 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,462 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 403 in the past week.

DHS reported 5 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,703 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,275 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 4.97, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 12.93.

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 13,074.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,068.8). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Chippewa, Shawano, Pepin, Kewaunee, Calumet, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,914.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,896.6) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,192.1 (up from 10,179.9).

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 16th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a high transmission level (110.5) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (100-149 is high transmission).

The city has moderate transmission based on the positive test rate (5.6%). 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 20.2%. 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	1,677	8,325	180	10	5	8,182.5	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,221	7,301	87	16	0	7,697.2	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,635	19,738	156	76	0	12,282.0	165.6	1.3%
Bayfield	1,117	7,089	116	19	0	7,346.8	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,069	133,795	3,314	234	40	11,934.5	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,336	5,491	34	7	0	9,889.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,296	6,213	138	21	1	8,390.0	135.9	1.6%
Calumet	5,701	21,978	640	46	4	11,075.1	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,259	29,806	193	94	2	11,303.3	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,197	11,081	397	58	4	9,202.4	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,279	27,697	388	57	12	9,240.7	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,696	7,633	57	17	0	10,244.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,389	337,107	1,469	290	23	8,209.9	54.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,663	42,081	892	162	21	13,074.4	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,567	14,442	214	22	6	9,151.2	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,892	19,614	738	32	17	8,870.9	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,530	19,353	389	32	0	10,116.8	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,373	50,709	342	106	12	11,053.2	103.0	0.9%
Florence	441	1,637	51	12	0	9,975.1	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,207	46,299	1,215	105	9	11,808.7	101.6	0.9%
Forest	944	4,420	77	23	3	10,281.0	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,830	23,895	754	85	5	9,222.1	162.3	1.8%
Green	3,431	17,229	114	17	6	9,307.2	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,556	8,012	439	19	3	8,151.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,982	11,379	88	10	1	8,328.1	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,653	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,600	9,522	62	26	2	12,594.5	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,215	36,809	1,153	108	23	9,701.8	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,062	14,700	111	21	5	11,379.5	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,238	75,483	2,612	305	15	9,057.8	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,319	7,630	329	25	9	11,233.3	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,539	56,494	773	80	0	10,596.4	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,538	6,748	150	7	1	9,109.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,964	7,283	162	32	14	9,930.7	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,015	11,043	214	60	28	10,600.5	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,419	31,362	1,200	69	18	9,244.4	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,239	52,542	1,489	184	34	10,567.7	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,046	19,113	428	65	3	9,883.2	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,356	6,353	186	22	5	8,817.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,827	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	103,080	495,974	9,721	1,275	45	10,914.0	135.0	1.2%
Monroe	4,430	19,367	113	37	1	9,630.9	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,355	17,337	523	49	8	11,472.0	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,559	15,273	156	68	6	9,910.1	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,297	90,170	2,850	201	16	11,043.0	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,025	42,788	975	83	7	9,082.2	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	827	3,167	26	7	0	11,253.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,743	17,257	951	36	6	8,990.0	86.5	1.0%
Polk	4,194	19,952	124	43	6	9,553.5	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,625	27,312	557	67	3	9,368.1	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,207	5,699	104	7	0	8,741.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,080	100,338	2,927	337	28	10,799.0	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,288	8,176	72	15	0	7,271.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,258	76,981	1,783	167	20	9,520.5	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,275	5,173	51	16	1	8,772.5	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,648	35,275	265	46	6	9,010.0	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,597	8,493	41	24	1	9,638.5	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,663	17,854	569	69	12	11,301.5	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,520	48,546	886	134	9	11,806.3	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,251	37,190	1,672	50	7	8,224.0	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,844	6,045	232	24	8	8,960.2	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,490	12,587	105	39	3	11,898.3	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,894	12,815	70	39	3	6,253.5	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,221	9,142	144	39	2	10,255.8	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,267	42,652	2,702	136	19	9,030.8	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,401	6,694	77	18	2	8,837.4	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,347	56,172	1,981	143	10	10,668.0	106.3	1.0%
Waukesha	42,978	181,364	4,794	512	49	10,781.1	128.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,837	21,195	1,102	117	44	9,350.3	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,136	11,096	320	32	3	8,790.8	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,817	84,043	3,014	190	21	10,521.2	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,858	32,694	485	77	13	9,264.3	104.0	1.1%