639 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 639 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 5,026 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,384, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,340, 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 14.45%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.07%. 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 336 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 10 from the day prior and a decrease of 6 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 235.

The state reported 73 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,600 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 418 in the past week.

DHS reported 13 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,863 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,300 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.43, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.40.

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 13,249.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,238.0). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet, Outagamie and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,157.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,145.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,394.9 (up from 10,383.9).

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	1,719	8,542	186	12	5	8,387.4	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,251	7,525	96	15	0	7,886.3	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,745	20,156	153	82	1	12,521.8	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,138	7,237	120	19	0	7,484.9	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,476	137,072	3,534	241	42	12,090.9	92.6	0.8%
Buffalo	1,352	5,559	34	7	0	10,008.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,359	6,439	141	22	0	8,797.8	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,758	22,502	668	48	5	11,185.8	93.2	0.8%
Chippewa	7,351	30,405	192	94	2	11,446.6	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,241	11,364	403	58	4	9,329.0	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,386	28,315	392	57	12	9,428.0	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,710	7,777	59	17	0	10,329.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,404	344,813	1,484	302	23	8,402.0	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,819	42,870	926	164	21	13,249.3	183.8	1.4%
Door	2,594	14,760	219	22	6	9,247.4	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,015	20,014	770	34	17	9,151.2	77.5	0.8%
Dunn	4,633	19,758	403	32	0	10,346.8	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,498	51,762	353	107	12	11,174.7	104.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,665	55	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,349	47,221	1,231	111	10	11,946.1	107.4	0.9%
Forest	959	4,522	79	23	3	10,444.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,895	24,307	772	85	5	9,346.2	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,497	17,620	119	18	6	9,486.2	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,570	8,201	439	19	3	8,225.1	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,016	11,592	88	10	1	8,470.9	42.0	0.5%
Iron	576	2,703	117	21	19	9,856.3	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,624	9,647	62	26	2	12,710.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,346	37,721	1,190	109	23	9,856.5	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,152	14,961	112	22	5	11,714.0	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,559	77,597	2,692	307	16	9,248.6	182.5	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,343	7,826	337	26	9	11,349.5	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,744	58,050	790	83	1	10,769.6	70.1	0.7%
Lafayette	1,556	6,894	152	8	1	9,216.4	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,993	7,477	166	32	14	10,077.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,049	11,308	214	64	28	10,720.1	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,523	32,185	1,232	69	19	9,374.0	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,578	53,997	1,528	187	35	10,819.3	138.8	1.3%
Marinette	4,136	19,653	451	66	4	10,103.1	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,371	6,494	188	23	5	8,915.3	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	799	3,912	8	11	0	18,233.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,379	510,068	10,021	1,300	47	11,157.4	137.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,524	19,830	107	37	1	9,835.2	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,434	17,790	543	53	8	11,680.1	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,625	15,650	159	69	6	10,093.8	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,559	92,821	2,972	204	16	11,185.5	111.0	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,150	43,964	994	85	7	9,223.6	96.2	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,325	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,932	17,821	973	37	6	9,444.0	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,446	20,538	125	47	7	10,127.6	107.1	1.1%
Portage	6,723	27,978	567	68	4	9,506.6	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,226	5,871	106	7	0	8,878.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,598	102,829	3,051	344	28	11,064.4	176.2	1.6%
Richland	1,303	8,296	73	15	0	7,356.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,909	79,234	1,871	169	22	9,926.7	105.5	1.1%
Rusk	1,304	5,318	53	17	1	8,972.1	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,789	35,638	277	47	6	9,234.9	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,666	8,704	54	25	1	10,054.9	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,684	18,330	575	72	11	11,352.4	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,698	49,815	899	141	10	11,961.8	123.1	1.0%
St. Croix	7,755	38,502	1,698	52	7	8,795.6	59.0	0.7%
Taylor	1,868	6,217	234	24	8	9,076.8	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,533	12,865	105	41	3	12,044.9	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,912	13,048	71	39	3	6,312.9	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,243	9,399	146	39	2	10,357.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,423	43,835	2,821	136	23	9,182.9	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,446	6,966	84	19	2	9,121.3	119.9	1.3%
Washington	14,624	57,687	2,031	151	12	10,874.0	112.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,663	186,482	4,930	525	52	10,952.9	131.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,881	21,670	1,120	119	44	9,435.3	230.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,157	11,296	335	34	3	8,877.3	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,089	86,135	3,064	195	21	10,681.8	115.2	1.1%
Wood	7,013	33,715	492	80	13	9,473.7	108.1	1.1%