373 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 373 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,042 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 5,121, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,351, 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 15.83%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 16.57%. 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 357 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 39 from the day prior and an increase of 53 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 200.

The state reported 37 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,594 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 420 in the past week.

DHS reported 1 COVID-19 death. A total of 6,710 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 4.47, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 11.47.

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 13,093.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,090.1). 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, 10,967.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,956.8) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,220.1 (up from 10,213.7).

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	1,685	8,357	179	11	5	8,221.5	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,223	7,357	87	16	0	7,709.8	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,655	19,812	154	76	0	12,325.6	165.6	1.3%
Bayfield	1,119	7,132	116	19	0	7,359.9	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,097	134,257	3,341	234	40	11,945.3	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,336	5,505	34	7	0	9,889.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,311	6,241	139	21	1	8,487.1	135.9	1.6%
Calumet	5,713	22,038	648	46	5	11,098.4	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,263	29,912	193	94	2	11,309.6	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,199	11,120	398	58	4	9,208.1	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,293	27,785	389	57	12	9,265.2	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,700	7,657	57	17	0	10,268.8	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,559	338,303	1,469	292	23	8,242.1	55.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,680	42,196	896	162	21	13,093.4	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,570	14,497	214	22	6	9,161.9	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,906	19,694	755	32	17	8,902.8	72.9	0.8%
Dunn	4,549	19,422	391	32	0	10,159.2	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,391	50,876	342	106	12	11,070.7	103.0	0.9%
Florence	442	1,646	53	12	0	9,997.7	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,230	46,452	1,218	105	9	11,830.9	101.6	0.9%
Forest	945	4,432	77	23	3	10,291.9	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,842	23,965	756	85	5	9,245.0	162.3	1.8%
Green	3,435	17,283	115	17	6	9,318.0	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,557	8,042	439	19	3	8,157.0	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,983	11,412	88	10	1	8,332.3	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,659	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,601	9,532	62	26	2	12,599.3	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,228	36,954	1,157	108	23	9,717.2	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,066	14,741	111	21	5	11,394.4	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,278	75,790	2,629	305	15	9,081.6	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,322	7,658	329	25	9	11,247.8	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,547	56,638	772	80	0	10,603.1	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,542	6,764	150	7	1	9,133.4	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,970	7,303	163	32	14	9,961.1	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,024	11,086	214	60	28	10,632.2	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,423	31,471	1,201	69	18	9,249.4	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,301	52,752	1,498	184	34	10,613.7	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,048	19,199	430	65	3	9,888.1	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,359	6,372	186	22	5	8,837.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,831	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	103,587	497,908	9,725	1,277	45	10,967.6	135.2	1.2%
Monroe	4,438	19,440	112	37	1	9,648.2	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,361	17,404	521	50	8	11,487.8	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,573	15,318	157	68	6	9,949.0	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,337	90,597	2,904	201	16	11,064.7	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,046	42,933	976	83	7	9,105.9	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	828	3,180	26	7	0	11,266.8	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,770	17,342	954	36	6	9,054.9	86.5	1.0%
Polk	4,212	20,048	125	43	6	9,594.5	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,637	27,380	558	67	3	9,385.0	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,210	5,732	104	7	0	8,763.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,126	100,758	2,941	337	28	10,822.6	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,290	8,199	73	15	0	7,283.2	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,331	77,365	1,811	167	20	9,566.0	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,280	5,204	51	16	1	8,806.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,663	35,347	270	46	6	9,033.9	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,601	8,517	43	24	1	9,662.6	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,660	17,928	571	69	12	11,294.2	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,557	48,716	888	135	9	11,838.6	117.9	1.0%
St. Croix	7,319	37,365	1,673	50	7	8,301.1	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,850	6,081	233	24	8	8,989.3	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,496	12,611	105	39	3	11,918.7	133.0	1.1%
Vernon	1,893	12,849	70	39	3	6,250.2	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,222	9,185	144	39	2	10,260.4	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,278	42,833	2,710	136	19	9,041.6	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,409	6,719	81	18	2	8,887.9	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,379	56,395	1,990	143	10	10,691.8	106.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,031	182,048	4,794	512	50	10,794.4	128.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,844	21,238	1,104	117	44	9,363.8	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,136	11,138	321	32	3	8,790.8	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,844	84,366	3,022	190	21	10,537.1	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,868	32,834	485	77	13	9,277.8	104.0	1.1%