367 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 367 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,255 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,218, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 32,149, 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 13.12%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.48%. 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 363 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 13 from the day prior and an increase of 6 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 219.

The state reported 34 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,003 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 409 in the past week.

DHS reported no COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,756 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 6.80.

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 13,151.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,142.8). 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, 11,048.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,039.3) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,293.1 (up from 10,286.7).

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	1,697	8,449	180	12	5	8,280.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,232	7,446	86	15	0	7,766.5	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,685	19,978	156	77	0	12,391.0	167.8	1.4%
Bayfield	1,124	7,175	121	19	0	7,392.8	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,268	135,510	3,421	235	40	12,011.0	90.3	0.8%
Buffalo	1,346	5,545	34	7	0	9,963.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,337	6,342	140	22	0	8,655.4	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,728	22,253	652	46	4	11,127.5	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,288	30,107	191	94	2	11,348.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,215	11,225	399	58	4	9,254.2	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,335	28,041	390	57	12	9,338.7	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,707	7,727	58	17	0	10,311.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	43,969	341,237	1,476	295	23	8,319.6	55.8	0.7%
Dodge	11,732	42,524	926	162	21	13,151.7	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,578	14,601	217	22	6	9,190.4	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,956	19,867	745	33	17	9,016.7	75.2	0.8%
Dunn	4,594	19,563	403	32	0	10,259.7	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,439	51,278	346	106	12	11,117.4	103.0	0.9%
Florence	442	1,655	54	12	0	9,997.7	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,262	46,737	1,222	105	9	11,861.9	101.6	0.9%
Forest	949	4,478	77	23	3	10,335.4	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,871	24,123	766	85	5	9,300.4	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,465	17,443	116	17	6	9,399.4	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,560	8,112	441	19	3	8,172.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,003	11,501	89	10	1	8,416.3	42.0	0.5%
Iron	572	2,681	117	21	19	9,787.8	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,611	9,589	62	26	2	12,647.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,284	37,310	1,169	108	23	9,783.3	127.5	1.3%
Juneau	3,106	14,847	112	21	5	11,543.0	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,386	76,625	2,660	305	16	9,145.8	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,325	7,729	333	25	9	11,262.4	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,627	57,173	777	80	0	10,670.7	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,546	6,812	150	7	1	9,157.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,985	7,376	166	32	14	10,036.9	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,037	11,191	214	61	28	10,677.9	214.5	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,466	31,767	1,221	69	18	9,303.0	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,412	53,286	1,506	185	34	10,696.1	137.3	1.3%
Marinette	4,071	19,398	434	66	3	9,944.3	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,365	6,433	184	22	5	8,876.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	792	3,855	8	11	0	18,073.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,351	503,628	9,879	1,293	45	11,048.5	136.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,469	19,618	110	37	1	9,715.6	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,391	17,585	524	50	8	11,566.8	131.7	1.1%
Oneida	3,604	15,475	159	68	6	10,035.4	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,408	91,614	2,939	202	16	11,103.4	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,085	43,440	990	84	7	9,150.1	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	841	3,232	27	7	0	11,443.7	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,856	17,582	969	36	6	9,261.4	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,303	20,265	124	43	6	9,801.8	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,671	27,663	562	68	3	9,433.1	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,223	5,795	107	7	0	8,857.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,287	101,809	2,987	339	28	10,905.1	173.7	1.6%
Richland	1,296	8,250	74	15	0	7,317.1	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,556	78,243	1,861	166	21	9,706.4	103.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,285	5,257	51	17	1	8,841.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,719	35,523	271	47	6	9,123.2	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,637	8,604	50	24	1	9,879.9	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,669	18,103	574	70	12	11,316.0	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,624	49,243	905	136	10	11,897.1	118.8	1.0%
St. Croix	7,510	37,975	1,683	50	7	8,517.7	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,855	6,146	233	24	8	9,013.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,513	12,706	105	40	3	11,976.7	136.4	1.1%
Vernon	1,903	12,946	70	39	3	6,283.2	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,222	9,268	145	40	2	10,260.4	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,327	43,285	2,770	135	22	9,089.3	131.6	1.4%
Washburn	1,427	6,829	81	18	2	9,001.5	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,486	56,969	2,011	146	11	10,771.4	108.6	1.0%
Waukesha	43,287	184,006	4,848	517	51	10,858.6	129.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,863	21,413	1,110	117	44	9,400.6	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,149	11,221	324	33	3	8,844.3	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,948	85,203	3,033	192	21	10,598.5	113.4	1.1%
Wood	6,917	33,167	488	77	13	9,344.0	104.0	1.1%