667 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 667 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 5,330 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,245, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,125, 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 14.09%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.09%. 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 323 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 13 from the day prior and a decrease of 6 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 275.

The state reported 68 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,668 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 413 in the past week.

DHS reported 14 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,863 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,301 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.63, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.57.

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 18,325.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,233.7). Dodge County has recorded 13,258.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,249.3). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Outagamie, Calumet and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,171.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,157.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,406.5 (up from 10,394.9).

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 May 6th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a high transmission level (110.6) 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 (5.2%). 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 35.2%. 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	1,724	8,560	190	12	5	8,411.8	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,260	7,550	93	15	0	7,943.0	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,750	20,172	154	82	1	12,532.7	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,139	7,251	122	19	0	7,491.4	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,497	137,327	3,538	243	43	12,098.9	93.3	0.8%
Buffalo	1,354	5,563	34	7	0	10,022.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,363	6,447	141	22	0	8,823.7	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,762	22,551	667	49	5	11,193.6	95.2	0.9%
Chippewa	7,359	30,441	191	94	2	11,459.0	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,242	11,385	403	58	4	9,331.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,398	28,352	393	57	12	9,449.0	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,709	7,784	60	17	0	10,323.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,480	345,413	1,483	302	23	8,416.3	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,827	42,911	924	164	21	13,258.2	183.8	1.4%
Door	2,597	14,775	219	22	6	9,258.1	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,026	20,034	774	34	17	9,176.3	77.5	0.8%
Dunn	4,638	19,785	404	32	0	10,358.0	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,500	51,828	353	107	12	11,176.7	104.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,667	55	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,364	47,315	1,238	111	10	11,960.6	107.4	0.9%
Forest	959	4,534	79	23	3	10,444.3	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,897	24,354	773	85	5	9,350.1	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,497	17,648	121	18	6	9,486.2	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,571	8,221	439	19	3	8,230.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,017	11,609	88	10	1	8,475.1	42.0	0.5%
Iron	576	2,708	117	21	19	9,856.3	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,626	9,661	62	26	2	12,720.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,356	37,785	1,192	109	23	9,868.3	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,154	14,983	112	22	5	11,721.4	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,588	77,732	2,698	308	16	9,265.8	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,342	7,841	340	26	9	11,344.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,732	58,130	790	84	1	10,759.5	71.0	0.7%
Lafayette	1,556	6,900	152	8	1	9,216.4	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,995	7,487	166	32	14	10,087.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,052	11,333	214	64	28	10,730.6	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,529	32,220	1,234	69	19	9,381.5	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,601	54,114	1,530	187	37	10,836.3	138.8	1.3%
Marinette	4,138	19,692	452	66	4	10,108.0	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,371	6,505	188	23	5	8,915.3	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	803	3,926	8	11	0	18,325.0	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,510	510,936	10,044	1,301	47	11,171.2	137.7	1.2%
Monroe	4,527	19,852	107	37	1	9,841.7	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,440	17,819	548	54	8	11,695.9	142.2	1.2%
Oneida	3,627	15,675	159	69	6	10,099.4	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,575	92,974	2,972	205	16	11,194.2	111.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,155	44,014	996	86	7	9,229.3	97.3	1.1%
Pepin	852	3,332	26	7	0	11,593.4	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,940	17,852	973	37	6	9,463.2	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,468	20,596	126	47	7	10,177.7	107.1	1.1%
Portage	6,736	28,036	571	68	4	9,525.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,227	5,876	106	7	0	8,886.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,648	102,972	3,063	344	28	11,090.0	176.2	1.6%
Richland	1,303	8,299	73	15	0	7,356.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,938	79,369	1,880	169	22	9,944.8	105.5	1.1%
Rusk	1,304	5,329	54	17	1	8,972.1	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,797	35,693	277	47	6	9,247.7	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,669	8,725	55	25	1	10,073.0	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,690	18,369	579	72	11	11,366.9	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,706	49,892	901	142	10	11,968.7	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,779	38,562	1,700	52	7	8,822.8	59.0	0.7%
Taylor	1,869	6,230	234	24	8	9,081.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,534	12,875	105	41	3	12,048.3	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,913	13,052	71	39	3	6,316.2	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,245	9,413	146	39	2	10,366.6	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,428	43,908	2,827	136	23	9,187.7	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,448	6,971	87	19	2	9,133.9	119.9	1.3%
Washington	14,638	57,780	2,034	152	13	10,884.4	113.0	1.0%
Waukesha	43,671	186,787	4,931	525	52	10,954.9	131.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,886	21,691	1,121	120	44	9,445.0	232.0	2.5%
Waushara	2,157	11,303	336	34	3	8,877.3	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,103	86,273	3,072	197	21	10,690.1	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,025	33,774	493	80	13	9,489.9	108.1	1.1%