727 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 727 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,483 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,201, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,475, 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 16.02%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 16.71%. 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 326 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 17 from the day prior and an increase of 43 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 222.

The state reported 61 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,523 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 404 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,711 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,277 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.17, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 11.73.

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 13,083.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,074.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Juneau, Chippewa, Shawano, Pepin, Kewaunee, Calumet, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,932.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,914.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,204.7 (up from 10,192.1).

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	1,684	8,343	180	10	5	8,216.6	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,223	7,334	87	16	0	7,709.8	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,637	19,766	156	76	0	12,286.4	165.6	1.3%
Bayfield	1,118	7,099	116	19	0	7,353.3	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,092	133,982	3,321	234	40	11,943.3	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,336	5,495	34	7	0	9,889.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,302	6,231	139	21	1	8,428.8	135.9	1.6%
Calumet	5,710	22,007	644	46	5	11,092.5	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,263	29,854	193	94	2	11,309.6	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,199	11,095	398	58	4	9,208.1	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,285	27,740	388	57	12	9,251.2	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,698	7,642	57	17	0	10,256.7	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,441	337,550	1,466	292	23	8,219.7	55.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,671	42,117	895	162	21	13,083.3	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,568	14,466	214	22	6	9,154.8	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,905	19,643	754	32	17	8,900.5	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,533	19,370	392	32	0	10,123.5	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,383	50,799	343	106	12	11,062.9	103.0	0.9%
Florence	441	1,643	53	12	0	9,975.1	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,213	46,341	1,216	105	9	11,814.5	101.6	0.9%
Forest	945	4,426	77	23	3	10,291.9	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,838	23,926	756	85	5	9,237.4	162.3	1.8%
Green	3,433	17,248	115	17	6	9,312.6	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,557	8,026	439	19	3	8,157.0	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,984	11,390	88	10	1	8,336.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,654	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,600	9,526	62	26	2	12,594.5	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,219	36,853	1,157	108	23	9,706.5	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,064	14,722	111	21	5	11,386.9	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,260	75,581	2,621	305	15	9,070.9	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,320	7,643	330	25	9	11,238.1	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,547	56,575	772	80	0	10,603.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,540	6,752	150	7	1	9,121.6	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,969	7,284	162	32	14	9,956.0	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,020	11,061	214	60	28	10,618.1	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,423	31,376	1,201	69	18	9,249.4	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,261	52,600	1,493	184	34	10,584.0	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,048	19,151	429	65	3	9,888.1	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,357	6,363	186	22	5	8,824.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,831	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	103,253	496,577	9,727	1,277	45	10,932.3	135.2	1.2%
Monroe	4,437	19,408	112	37	1	9,646.1	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,360	17,376	522	50	8	11,485.2	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,569	15,286	157	68	6	9,937.9	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,315	90,345	2,878	201	16	11,052.8	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,035	42,817	976	83	7	9,093.5	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	828	3,172	26	7	0	11,266.8	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,755	17,289	953	36	6	9,018.9	86.5	1.0%
Polk	4,212	19,987	125	43	6	9,594.5	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,633	27,325	557	67	3	9,379.4	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,208	5,717	104	7	0	8,748.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,102	100,473	2,935	337	28	10,810.3	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,288	8,190	73	15	0	7,271.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,288	77,127	1,793	167	20	9,539.2	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,279	5,179	51	16	1	8,800.1	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,648	35,270	266	46	6	9,010.0	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,598	8,507	43	25	1	9,644.5	150.9	1.6%
Shawano	4,664	17,885	571	69	12	11,303.9	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,543	48,605	886	135	9	11,826.4	117.9	1.0%
St. Croix	7,275	37,263	1,671	50	7	8,251.2	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,848	6,071	233	24	8	8,979.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,496	12,599	105	39	3	11,918.7	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,891	12,835	70	39	3	6,243.6	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,222	9,163	144	39	2	10,260.4	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,282	42,713	2,710	136	19	9,045.5	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,405	6,703	77	18	2	8,862.7	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,358	56,231	1,989	144	10	10,676.2	107.1	1.0%
Waukesha	43,031	181,588	4,794	512	50	10,794.4	128.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,842	21,214	1,104	117	44	9,360.0	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,136	11,115	321	32	3	8,790.8	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,831	84,178	3,017	190	21	10,529.5	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,858	32,750	485	77	13	9,264.3	104.0	1.1%