688 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 688 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 5,123 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,290, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,324, 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 13.70%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.19%. 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 342 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 11 from the day prior and a decrease of 22 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 227.

The state reported 79 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,182 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 418 in the past week.

DHS reported 34 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,807 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,296 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 6.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 6.30.

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 13,185.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,176.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet, Outagamie and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,070.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,059.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,319.1 (up from 10,307.2).

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	1,699	8,457	181	12	5	8,289.8	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,235	7,448	89	15	0	7,785.4	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,701	20,012	156	81	0	12,425.9	176.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,124	7,187	119	19	0	7,392.8	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,319	135,833	3,453	240	42	12,030.5	92.2	0.8%
Buffalo	1,346	5,545	34	7	0	9,963.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,344	6,357	140	22	0	8,700.7	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,735	22,296	653	46	4	11,141.1	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,299	30,145	191	94	2	11,365.6	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,221	11,254	401	58	4	9,271.5	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,346	28,086	390	57	12	9,357.9	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,708	7,748	58	17	0	10,317.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,063	341,840	1,479	297	23	8,337.4	56.2	0.7%
Dodge	11,762	42,621	921	162	21	13,185.4	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,580	14,641	218	22	6	9,197.5	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,968	19,885	751	34	17	9,044.1	77.5	0.9%
Dunn	4,603	19,607	403	32	0	10,279.8	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,450	51,386	347	107	12	11,128.1	104.0	0.9%
Florence	442	1,658	55	12	0	9,997.7	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,271	46,856	1,222	110	10	11,870.6	106.4	0.9%
Forest	950	4,484	77	23	3	10,346.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,878	24,181	767	85	5	9,313.8	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,470	17,497	117	18	6	9,413.0	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,565	8,136	439	19	3	8,198.9	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,005	11,524	88	10	1	8,424.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	574	2,688	117	21	19	9,822.0	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,614	9,591	62	26	2	12,662.3	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,302	37,404	1,174	109	23	9,804.5	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,115	14,882	112	22	5	11,576.5	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,438	76,849	2,685	306	16	9,176.7	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,327	7,752	334	25	9	11,272.0	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,658	57,376	780	81	1	10,696.9	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,549	6,829	150	8	1	9,174.9	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,985	7,405	166	32	14	10,036.9	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,040	11,222	214	62	28	10,688.4	218.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,482	31,865	1,225	69	19	9,322.9	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,460	53,501	1,510	186	34	10,731.7	138.0	1.3%
Marinette	4,101	19,455	440	66	3	10,017.6	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,368	6,449	186	22	5	8,895.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	793	3,851	8	11	0	18,096.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,556	505,104	9,928	1,296	46	11,070.2	137.2	1.2%
Monroe	4,481	19,678	107	37	1	9,741.7	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,398	17,636	527	53	8	11,585.3	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,609	15,510	159	69	6	10,049.3	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,470	91,770	2,942	202	16	11,137.1	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,102	43,570	993	84	7	9,169.3	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	845	3,252	26	7	0	11,498.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,878	17,628	970	36	6	9,314.3	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,343	20,324	125	44	7	9,892.9	100.2	1.0%
Portage	6,688	27,718	564	68	4	9,457.1	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,225	5,819	106	7	0	8,871.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,403	102,086	3,005	340	28	10,964.5	174.2	1.6%
Richland	1,299	8,256	73	15	0	7,334.0	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,640	78,387	1,861	168	22	9,758.8	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,288	5,265	51	17	1	8,862.0	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,729	35,521	273	47	6	9,139.2	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,651	8,618	50	24	1	9,964.4	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,673	18,149	576	70	12	11,325.7	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,639	49,380	904	138	10	11,910.2	120.5	1.0%
St. Croix	7,556	38,112	1,685	50	7	8,569.9	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,856	6,172	233	24	8	9,018.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,521	12,745	105	41	3	12,004.0	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,904	12,968	71	39	3	6,286.5	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,234	9,303	145	40	2	10,315.8	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,359	43,398	2,792	136	23	9,120.5	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,429	6,866	84	18	2	9,014.1	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,523	57,147	2,020	149	11	10,798.9	110.8	1.0%
Waukesha	43,425	184,591	4,888	522	51	10,893.2	130.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,865	21,442	1,114	117	44	9,404.4	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,150	11,228	328	33	3	8,848.5	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,988	85,353	3,039	194	21	10,622.2	114.6	1.1%
Wood	6,935	33,305	488	77	13	9,368.3	104.0	1.1%