675 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 675 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,631 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,539, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,539, 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 14.86%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.12%. 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 337 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 1 from the day prior and a decrease of 12 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 239.

The state reported 75 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,382 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 455 in the past week.

DHS reported 18 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,841 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,298 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.20, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 6.17.

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 18,233.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,210.9). Dodge County has recorded 13,224.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,210.0). 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, 11,116.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,100.8) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,358.4 (up from 10,346.7).

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 29th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a high transmission level (111.3) 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%). 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 30.8%. 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	1,707	8,495	184	12	5	8,328.9	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,242	7,486	91	15	0	7,829.5	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,727	20,069	153	82	1	12,482.6	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,128	7,211	123	19	0	7,419.1	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,391	136,441	3,490	241	42	12,058.2	92.6	0.8%
Buffalo	1,351	5,552	34	7	0	10,000.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,352	6,405	141	22	0	8,752.5	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,746	22,387	657	48	4	11,162.5	93.2	0.8%
Chippewa	7,325	30,277	192	94	2	11,406.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,233	11,306	403	58	4	9,306.0	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,362	28,209	390	57	12	9,385.9	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,709	7,765	58	17	0	10,323.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,259	343,438	1,480	302	23	8,374.5	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,797	42,716	920	163	21	13,224.6	182.7	1.4%
Door	2,585	14,700	218	22	6	9,215.4	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,989	19,958	752	34	17	9,091.9	77.5	0.9%
Dunn	4,611	19,676	402	32	0	10,297.7	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,465	51,561	349	108	12	11,142.6	105.0	0.9%
Florence	444	1,659	55	12	0	10,043.0	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,314	46,999	1,226	111	10	11,912.2	107.4	0.9%
Forest	957	4,502	77	23	3	10,422.6	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,886	24,243	773	85	5	9,329.1	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,483	17,552	120	18	6	9,448.2	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,566	8,184	439	19	3	8,204.1	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,010	11,549	88	10	1	8,445.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	575	2,693	117	21	19	9,839.2	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,619	9,617	62	26	2	12,686.5	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,322	37,543	1,177	109	23	9,828.2	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,135	14,910	112	22	5	11,650.8	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,492	77,197	2,696	306	16	9,208.8	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,338	7,781	332	26	9	11,325.3	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,702	57,668	782	81	1	10,734.1	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,553	6,858	150	8	1	9,198.6	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,990	7,427	166	32	14	10,062.2	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,044	11,263	214	63	28	10,702.5	221.5	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,506	32,007	1,229	69	19	9,352.8	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,528	53,683	1,518	186	34	10,782.2	138.0	1.3%
Marinette	4,114	19,560	446	66	3	10,049.3	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,369	6,471	186	22	5	8,902.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	799	3,887	8	11	0	18,233.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,990	507,473	9,973	1,298	47	11,116.2	137.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,498	19,731	107	37	1	9,778.7	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,417	17,713	529	53	8	11,635.3	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,622	15,561	159	69	6	10,085.5	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,516	92,321	2,948	202	16	11,162.1	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,124	43,730	996	84	7	9,194.2	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,307	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,912	17,748	973	36	6	9,395.9	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,379	20,441	124	46	7	9,974.9	104.8	1.1%
Portage	6,701	27,835	566	68	4	9,475.5	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,226	5,844	106	7	0	8,878.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,499	102,381	3,023	341	28	11,013.7	174.7	1.6%
Richland	1,300	8,268	72	15	0	7,339.7	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,797	78,821	1,856	168	22	9,856.8	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,293	5,292	52	17	1	8,896.4	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,757	35,540	275	47	6	9,183.9	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,662	8,671	50	25	1	10,030.8	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,679	18,240	573	72	11	11,340.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,668	49,561	907	140	10	11,935.6	122.3	1.0%
St. Croix	7,669	38,317	1,689	50	7	8,698.1	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,861	6,189	234	24	8	9,042.8	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,527	12,812	105	41	3	12,024.4	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,911	12,994	71	39	3	6,309.6	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,237	9,343	146	40	2	10,329.7	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,391	43,594	2,796	136	23	9,151.7	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,439	6,920	85	18	2	9,077.1	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,564	57,384	2,031	151	11	10,829.4	112.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,557	185,455	4,907	523	51	10,926.3	131.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,872	21,575	1,117	118	44	9,418.0	228.1	2.4%
Waushara	2,153	11,267	330	34	3	8,860.8	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,037	85,738	3,063	195	21	10,651.1	115.2	1.1%
Wood	6,989	33,521	488	81	13	9,441.3	109.4	1.2%