795 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 795 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,408 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,576, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,716, 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 13.99%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 15.13%. 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 353 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 7 from the day prior and an increase of 44 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 248.

The state reported 48 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,865 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 403 in the past week.

DHS reported 13 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,738 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,282 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 4.70, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 10.43.

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 18,096.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,073.9). Dodge County has recorded 13,138.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,128.2). 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, 11,018.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,000.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,271.3 (up from 10,257.5).

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 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	1,694	8,418	178	12	5	8,265.4	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,230	7,409	84	15	0	7,753.9	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,669	19,914	156	77	0	12,356.1	167.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,121	7,152	121	19	0	7,373.1	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,213	135,043	3,393	235	40	11,989.8	90.3	0.8%
Buffalo	1,346	5,537	34	7	0	9,963.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,336	6,316	140	22	0	8,648.9	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,723	22,170	649	46	4	11,117.8	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,285	30,032	191	94	2	11,343.8	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,213	11,187	399	58	4	9,248.4	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,315	27,935	389	57	12	9,303.7	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,704	7,703	58	17	0	10,293.0	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,830	340,019	1,471	293	23	8,293.3	55.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,720	42,386	915	162	21	13,138.3	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,578	14,565	215	22	6	9,190.4	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,944	19,781	733	33	17	8,989.4	75.2	0.8%
Dunn	4,586	19,526	399	32	0	10,241.9	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,424	51,123	345	106	12	11,102.8	103.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,651	52	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,253	46,689	1,220	105	9	11,853.2	101.6	0.9%
Forest	950	4,462	77	23	3	10,346.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,863	24,071	762	85	5	9,285.1	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,460	17,389	116	17	6	9,385.9	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,560	8,090	440	19	3	8,172.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,995	11,467	88	10	1	8,382.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	571	2,674	117	21	19	9,770.7	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,611	9,563	62	26	2	12,647.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,267	37,178	1,167	108	23	9,763.2	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,091	14,792	112	21	5	11,487.3	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,366	76,334	2,644	306	16	9,133.9	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,325	7,702	334	25	9	11,262.4	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,598	56,993	773	80	0	10,646.2	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,545	6,796	150	7	1	9,151.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,983	7,350	164	32	14	10,026.8	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,039	11,159	214	61	28	10,684.9	214.5	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,460	31,662	1,222	69	18	9,295.5	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,374	53,062	1,502	185	34	10,667.9	137.3	1.3%
Marinette	4,070	19,329	433	66	3	9,941.9	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,363	6,412	184	22	5	8,863.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	793	3,852	8	11	0	18,096.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,063	501,575	9,846	1,282	45	11,018.0	135.7	1.2%
Monroe	4,458	19,555	112	37	1	9,691.7	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,382	17,527	521	50	8	11,543.1	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,595	15,426	158	68	6	10,010.3	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,386	91,253	2,927	201	16	11,091.4	109.4	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,080	43,302	987	84	7	9,144.4	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	835	3,218	27	7	0	11,362.1	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,824	17,516	959	36	6	9,184.6	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,285	20,178	124	43	6	9,760.8	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,662	27,550	560	67	3	9,420.4	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,220	5,770	107	7	0	8,835.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,253	101,424	2,968	337	28	10,887.6	172.6	1.6%
Richland	1,296	8,228	73	15	0	7,317.1	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,465	77,875	1,833	167	20	9,649.6	104.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,285	5,242	51	17	1	8,841.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,696	35,422	270	46	6	9,086.6	73.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,629	8,553	49	24	1	9,831.6	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,668	18,051	574	70	12	11,313.6	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,609	49,063	896	136	9	11,884.0	118.8	1.0%
St. Croix	7,435	37,755	1,678	50	7	8,432.7	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,853	6,114	233	24	8	9,003.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,504	12,684	105	40	3	11,946.0	136.4	1.1%
Vernon	1,898	12,912	70	39	3	6,266.7	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,220	9,248	145	39	2	10,251.2	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,320	43,110	2,769	135	22	9,082.5	131.6	1.4%
Washburn	1,424	6,784	82	18	2	8,982.5	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,456	56,776	2,002	146	10	10,749.1	108.6	1.0%
Waukesha	43,251	183,304	4,843	517	51	10,849.6	129.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,858	21,366	1,109	117	44	9,390.9	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,148	11,192	322	33	3	8,840.2	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,918	84,919	3,022	191	21	10,580.8	112.8	1.1%
Wood	6,899	33,062	488	77	13	9,319.7	104.0	1.1%