349 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 349 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 2,843 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,527, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,349, 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 14.92%, 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, the same as the day prior and a decrease of 48 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 241.

The state reported 29 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,441 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 438 in the past week.

DHS reported no 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 30-day average daily death total now stands at 6.63, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.67.

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 13,232.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,225.7). 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, 11,137.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,129.3) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,371.4 (up from 10,365.4).

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	1,712	8,522	185	12	5	8,353.3	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,241	7,527	92	15	0	7,823.2	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,738	20,108	153	82	1	12,506.5	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,129	7,224	123	19	0	7,425.7	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,395	136,733	3,497	241	42	12,059.7	92.6	0.8%
Buffalo	1,351	5,557	34	7	0	10,000.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,356	6,418	143	22	0	8,778.4	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,749	22,440	659	48	4	11,168.3	93.2	0.8%
Chippewa	7,325	30,336	192	94	2	11,406.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,236	11,331	403	58	4	9,314.6	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,372	28,259	390	57	12	9,403.4	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,708	7,775	58	17	0	10,317.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,338	344,159	1,479	302	23	8,389.5	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,804	42,778	923	163	21	13,232.4	182.7	1.4%
Door	2,589	14,713	219	22	6	9,229.6	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,003	19,993	764	34	17	9,123.9	77.5	0.8%
Dunn	4,620	19,710	402	32	0	10,317.8	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,475	51,657	351	107	12	11,152.4	104.0	0.9%
Florence	444	1,662	55	12	0	10,043.0	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,333	47,122	1,228	111	10	11,930.6	107.4	0.9%
Forest	957	4,503	78	23	3	10,422.6	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,888	24,270	772	85	5	9,332.9	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,489	17,588	119	18	6	9,464.5	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,569	8,191	439	19	3	8,219.8	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,013	11,564	88	10	1	8,458.3	42.0	0.5%
Iron	575	2,699	117	21	19	9,839.2	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,620	9,628	62	26	2	12,691.3	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,322	37,618	1,177	109	23	9,828.2	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,139	14,940	112	22	5	11,665.7	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,502	77,397	2,710	306	16	9,214.7	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,343	7,798	332	26	9	11,349.5	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,712	57,807	784	81	1	10,742.6	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,554	6,871	150	8	1	9,204.5	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,991	7,454	166	32	14	10,067.2	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,047	11,273	214	63	28	10,713.0	221.5	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,506	32,083	1,229	69	19	9,352.8	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,553	53,808	1,526	186	34	10,800.7	138.0	1.3%
Marinette	4,116	19,601	444	66	3	10,054.2	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,370	6,483	186	22	5	8,908.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	799	3,891	8	11	0	18,233.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,194	508,768	9,981	1,298	47	11,137.8	137.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,516	19,763	107	37	1	9,817.8	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,420	17,743	530	53	8	11,643.2	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,622	15,594	159	69	6	10,085.5	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,523	92,534	2,956	202	16	11,165.9	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,128	43,831	996	84	7	9,198.7	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,316	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,921	17,783	974	36	6	9,417.6	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,382	20,500	124	46	7	9,981.8	104.8	1.0%
Portage	6,707	27,891	569	68	4	9,484.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,226	5,855	106	7	0	8,878.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,539	102,583	3,029	341	28	11,034.2	174.7	1.6%
Richland	1,302	8,276	72	15	0	7,350.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,846	79,046	1,866	168	22	9,887.4	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,296	5,309	52	17	1	8,917.0	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,779	35,619	279	47	6	9,219.0	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,664	8,691	52	25	1	10,042.9	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,679	18,269	573	72	11	11,340.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,682	49,680	907	140	10	11,947.8	122.3	1.0%
St. Croix	7,706	38,424	1,692	50	7	8,740.0	56.7	0.6%
Taylor	1,865	6,206	234	24	8	9,062.2	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,531	12,824	105	41	3	12,038.0	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,911	13,030	71	39	3	6,309.6	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,237	9,365	146	39	2	10,329.7	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,391	43,716	2,796	136	23	9,151.7	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,444	6,935	83	18	2	9,108.7	113.5	1.2%
Washington	14,584	57,510	2,032	151	11	10,844.3	112.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,556	185,907	4,907	523	51	10,926.1	131.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,876	21,607	1,118	118	44	9,425.7	228.1	2.4%
Waushara	2,154	11,279	330	34	3	8,864.9	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,057	85,937	3,067	195	21	10,662.9	115.2	1.1%
Wood	7,005	33,592	491	81	13	9,462.9	109.4	1.2%