494 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 494 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,139 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,343, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,372, 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 13.42%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.72%. 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 349 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 4 from the day prior and an increase of 23 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 239.

The state reported 62 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 28,927 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 404 in the past week.

DHS reported 19 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,757 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,293 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.27, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 9.40.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,140.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,138.3). 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, 11,027.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,018.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,279.8 (up from 10,271.3).

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	1,695	8,426	180	12	5	8,270.3	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,230	7,413	85	15	0	7,753.9	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,679	19,936	156	77	0	12,377.9	167.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,122	7,156	121	19	0	7,379.6	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,228	135,222	3,415	235	40	11,995.6	90.3	0.8%
Buffalo	1,346	5,541	34	7	0	9,963.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,337	6,331	140	22	0	8,655.4	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,723	22,197	650	46	4	11,117.8	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,288	30,059	191	94	2	11,348.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,215	11,204	399	58	4	9,254.2	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,324	27,968	389	57	12	9,319.4	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,705	7,712	58	17	0	10,299.0	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,890	340,511	1,473	295	23	8,304.7	55.8	0.7%
Dodge	11,722	42,441	916	162	21	13,140.5	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,578	14,582	216	22	6	9,190.4	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,950	19,818	737	33	17	9,003.1	75.2	0.8%
Dunn	4,589	19,540	399	32	0	10,248.6	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,431	51,185	345	106	12	11,109.6	103.0	0.9%
Florence	443	1,655	54	12	0	10,020.4	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,255	46,629	1,221	105	9	11,855.1	101.6	0.9%
Forest	949	4,468	77	23	3	10,335.4	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,867	24,087	766	85	5	9,292.8	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,462	17,407	116	17	6	9,391.3	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,560	8,102	441	19	3	8,172.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,995	11,483	89	10	1	8,382.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	572	2,675	117	21	19	9,787.8	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,611	9,574	62	26	2	12,647.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,275	37,214	1,169	108	23	9,772.7	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,094	14,814	112	21	5	11,498.4	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,378	76,429	2,651	306	16	9,141.0	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,325	7,713	334	25	9	11,262.4	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,617	57,080	777	80	0	10,662.3	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,545	6,801	150	7	1	9,151.2	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,983	7,357	165	32	14	10,026.8	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,036	11,173	214	61	28	10,674.4	214.5	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,466	31,692	1,221	69	18	9,303.0	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,392	53,153	1,509	185	34	10,681.2	137.3	1.3%
Marinette	4,070	19,354	435	66	3	9,941.9	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,364	6,417	184	22	5	8,869.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	793	3,855	8	11	0	18,096.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,150	502,353	9,876	1,293	45	11,027.2	136.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,464	19,586	110	37	1	9,704.8	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,387	17,550	520	50	8	11,556.3	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,600	15,442	158	68	6	10,024.2	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,392	91,387	2,931	202	16	11,094.7	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,080	43,348	990	84	7	9,144.4	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	840	3,226	27	7	0	11,430.1	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,838	17,545	968	36	6	9,218.2	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,304	20,216	124	43	6	9,804.1	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,664	27,586	563	68	3	9,423.2	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,220	5,786	107	7	0	8,835.5	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,272	101,543	2,982	339	28	10,897.4	173.7	1.6%
Richland	1,295	8,231	74	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,477	78,000	1,835	166	21	9,657.1	103.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,285	5,251	51	17	1	8,841.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,705	35,437	270	47	6	9,100.9	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,632	8,567	49	24	1	9,849.7	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,669	18,078	574	70	12	11,316.0	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,609	49,119	899	136	10	11,884.0	118.8	1.0%
St. Croix	7,459	37,838	1,682	50	7	8,459.9	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,853	6,128	233	24	8	9,003.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,506	12,692	105	40	3	11,952.8	136.4	1.1%
Vernon	1,900	12,920	70	39	3	6,273.3	128.8	2.1%
Vilas	2,222	9,253	145	40	2	10,260.4	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,327	43,148	2,770	135	22	9,089.3	131.6	1.4%
Washburn	1,425	6,791	81	18	2	8,988.8	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,470	56,833	2,008	146	11	10,759.5	108.6	1.0%
Waukesha	43,287	183,545	4,848	517	51	10,858.6	129.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,860	21,385	1,110	117	44	9,394.8	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,149	11,202	324	33	3	8,844.3	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,927	85,020	3,030	192	21	10,586.1	113.4	1.1%
Wood	6,911	33,112	488	77	13	9,335.9	104.0	1.1%