732 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 732 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 5,896 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,490, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,046, 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 14.01%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 15.56%. 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 346 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 18 from the day prior and an increase of 53 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 217.

The state reported 53 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,817 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 424 in the past week.

DHS reported 4 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,725 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,280 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 4.60, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 10.10.

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 13,128.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,114.7). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Juneau, Pepin, Chipewa, Shawano,  Kewaunee, Calumet, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,000.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,987.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,257.5 (up from 10,244.9).

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	1,692	8,406	178	12	5	8,255.7	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,227	7,386	84	15	0	7,735.0	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,666	19,893	156	77	0	12,349.6	167.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,119	7,132	117	19	0	7,359.9	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,181	134,822	3,365	234	40	11,977.5	89.9	0.8%
Buffalo	1,345	5,524	34	7	0	9,956.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,332	6,297	140	22	0	8,623.0	142.4	1.7%
Calumet	5,720	22,134	649	46	4	11,112.0	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,282	30,015	191	94	2	11,339.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,213	11,171	399	58	4	9,248.4	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,309	27,909	390	57	12	9,293.2	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,704	7,690	58	17	0	10,293.0	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,765	339,570	1,470	293	23	8,281.0	55.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,711	42,361	907	162	21	13,128.2	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,575	14,569	215	22	6	9,179.7	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,940	19,746	755	33	17	8,980.3	75.2	0.8%
Dunn	4,575	19,493	399	32	0	10,217.3	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,415	51,067	345	106	12	11,094.0	103.0	0.9%
Florence	443	1,642	54	12	0	10,020.4	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,245	46,622	1,218	105	9	11,845.5	101.6	0.9%
Forest	948	4,455	77	23	3	10,324.5	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,859	24,045	763	85	5	9,277.5	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,453	17,367	115	17	6	9,366.9	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,559	8,074	441	19	3	8,167.4	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,993	11,457	88	10	1	8,374.3	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,672	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,609	9,554	62	26	2	12,638.1	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,253	37,124	1,164	108	23	9,746.7	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,081	14,780	111	21	5	11,450.1	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,344	76,178	2,641	305	15	9,120.8	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,322	7,694	333	25	9	11,247.8	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,582	56,899	772	80	0	10,632.7	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,544	6,793	150	7	1	9,145.3	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,980	7,343	164	32	14	10,011.6	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,036	11,142	214	61	28	10,674.4	214.5	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,447	31,616	1,217	69	18	9,279.3	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,353	52,983	1,502	185	34	10,652.3	137.3	1.3%
Marinette	4,066	19,296	433	65	3	9,932.1	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,362	6,406	184	22	5	8,856.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,852	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	103,895	500,522	9,828	1,280	45	11,000.2	135.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,452	19,522	112	37	1	9,678.7	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,378	17,502	519	50	8	11,532.6	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,589	15,423	157	68	6	9,993.6	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,376	91,079	2,925	201	16	11,086.0	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,070	43,190	984	83	7	9,133.1	93.9	1.0%
Pepin	835	3,198	27	7	0	11,362.1	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,807	17,469	961	36	6	9,143.7	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,267	20,127	124	43	6	9,719.8	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,659	27,515	559	67	3	9,416.1	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,218	5,757	105	7	0	8,821.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,231	101,291	2,960	337	28	10,876.4	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,295	8,224	73	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,416	77,725	1,827	167	20	9,619.1	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,282	5,228	51	17	1	8,820.7	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,685	35,399	269	46	6	9,069.0	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,617	8,536	46	24	1	9,759.2	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,666	18,019	574	70	12	11,308.8	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,595	48,968	893	136	9	11,871.8	118.8	1.0%
St. Croix	7,402	37,680	1,678	50	7	8,395.2	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,851	6,105	233	24	8	8,994.2	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,502	12,667	105	40	3	11,939.2	136.4	1.1%
Vernon	1,897	12,898	70	39	3	6,263.4	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,220	9,239	145	39	2	10,251.2	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,309	43,054	2,759	133	22	9,071.8	129.6	1.4%
Washburn	1,421	6,768	83	18	2	8,963.6	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,435	56,679	1,999	143	10	10,733.5	106.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,219	182,975	4,833	515	51	10,841.6	129.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,858	21,326	1,108	117	44	9,390.9	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,142	11,181	323	33	3	8,815.5	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,904	84,777	3,020	191	21	10,572.6	112.8	1.1%
Wood	6,888	33,012	486	77	13	9,304.8	104.0	1.1%