405 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 405 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,293 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,545, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,761, 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 14.78%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.99%. 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 315 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 22 from the day prior and a decrease of 35 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 244.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,412 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 443 in the past week.

DHS reported -2 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,839 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,298 in Milwaukee County. The DHS website includes this note regarding the potential for reporting negative values:

Our goal is to provide the highest quality COVID-19 data with full transparency. In recent weeks, DHS has been able to ramp up data quality assurance efforts in the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS), which includes correcting case status from “confirmed” or “probable” where appropriate, ensuring completeness of data fields, and reducing unknowns. Due to these efforts, data displayed on the website may change over time. In particular, dashboards and data tables that track cumulative cases or deaths, as well as those showing newly reported numbers each day may appear lower than expected – in some counties, substantially lower or even negative. For more information on this effort, and details on why the cases and deaths might go up or down from one day to the next, visit our Data 101 webpage.

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 5.83.

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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,225.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,224.6). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Kewaunee, Shawano, Calumet, Outagamie and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,129.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,116.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,365.4 (up from 10,358.4).

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	1,711	8,517	186	12	5	8,348.4	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,242	7,505	91	15	0	7,829.5	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,731	20,095	153	82	1	12,491.3	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,128	7,216	123	19	0	7,419.1	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,394	136,618	3,496	241	42	12,059.4	92.6	0.8%
Buffalo	1,351	5,553	34	7	0	10,000.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,352	6,412	141	22	0	8,752.5	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,748	22,426	660	48	4	11,166.4	93.2	0.8%
Chippewa	7,325	30,306	192	94	2	11,406.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,236	11,322	403	58	4	9,314.6	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,369	28,246	391	57	12	9,398.2	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,709	7,772	58	17	0	10,323.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,309	343,869	1,480	302	23	8,384.0	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,798	42,765	920	163	21	13,225.7	182.7	1.4%
Door	2,589	14,710	219	22	6	9,229.6	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	3,988	19,973	752	34	17	9,089.7	77.5	0.9%
Dunn	4,616	19,698	401	32	0	10,308.9	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,470	51,610	349	107	12	11,147.5	104.0	0.9%
Florence	444	1,662	55	12	0	10,043.0	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,314	47,081	1,226	111	10	11,912.2	107.4	0.9%
Forest	957	4,503	77	23	3	10,422.6	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,887	24,253	772	85	5	9,331.0	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,488	17,576	119	18	6	9,461.8	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,569	8,191	439	19	3	8,219.8	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,010	11,554	88	10	1	8,445.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	575	2,695	117	21	19	9,839.2	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,620	9,624	62	26	2	12,691.3	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,322	37,582	1,177	109	23	9,828.2	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,137	14,929	112	22	5	11,658.2	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,500	77,311	2,712	306	16	9,213.5	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,342	7,791	332	26	9	11,344.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,711	57,734	785	81	1	10,741.7	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,554	6,866	150	8	1	9,204.5	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,991	7,450	166	32	14	10,067.2	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,047	11,268	214	63	28	10,713.0	221.5	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,506	32,053	1,229	69	19	9,352.8	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,549	53,767	1,525	186	34	10,797.8	138.0	1.3%
Marinette	4,114	19,580	446	66	3	10,049.3	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,370	6,474	186	22	5	8,908.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	799	3,888	8	11	0	18,233.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,114	508,301	9,979	1,298	47	11,129.3	137.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,512	19,747	107	37	1	9,809.1	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,420	17,732	530	53	8	11,643.2	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,619	15,579	159	69	6	10,077.1	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,517	92,473	2,954	202	16	11,162.7	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,128	43,803	996	84	7	9,198.7	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,312	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,917	17,766	974	36	6	9,408.0	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,379	20,481	124	46	7	9,974.9	104.8	1.1%
Portage	6,705	27,872	569	68	4	9,481.2	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,226	5,853	106	7	0	8,878.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,511	102,496	3,025	341	28	11,019.8	174.7	1.6%
Richland	1,300	8,273	72	15	0	7,339.7	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,816	78,959	1,862	168	22	9,868.7	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,294	5,303	52	17	1	8,903.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,773	35,589	275	47	6	9,209.4	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,663	8,681	52	25	1	10,036.8	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,679	18,261	573	72	11	11,340.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,678	49,644	907	140	10	11,944.3	122.3	1.0%
St. Croix	7,681	38,380	1,692	50	7	8,711.7	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,864	6,201	234	24	8	9,057.3	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,527	12,818	105	41	3	12,024.4	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,911	13,015	71	39	3	6,309.6	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,237	9,357	146	39	2	10,329.7	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,391	43,660	2,796	136	23	9,151.7	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,440	6,925	85	18	2	9,083.5	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,584	57,455	2,032	151	11	10,844.3	112.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,556	185,716	4,907	523	51	10,926.1	131.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,875	21,593	1,119	118	44	9,423.7	228.1	2.4%
Waushara	2,154	11,274	330	34	3	8,864.9	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,037	85,857	3,065	195	21	10,651.1	115.2	1.1%
Wood	6,997	33,559	488	81	13	9,452.1	109.4	1.2%