308 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 308 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 3,809 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,871, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,250, 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 12.80%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.79%. 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 316 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 7 from the day prior and an increase of 1 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 290.

The state reported 30 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,808 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 396 in the past week.

DHS reported no COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,904 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,304 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.73, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.93.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 17th 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 (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,273.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,284.0). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,200.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,192.9) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,432.3 (up from 10,427.0).

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	1,736	8,637	195	12	5	8,470.4	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,262	7,593	96	15	0	7,955.6	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,797	20,252	155	82	1	12,635.1	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,144	7,280	122	19	0	7,524.3	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,552	137,809	3,572	244	45	12,120.0	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,354	5,586	34	7	0	10,022.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,372	6,468	141	22	0	8,882.0	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,777	22,627	670	50	5	11,222.7	97.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,370	30,514	192	94	2	11,476.2	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,253	11,428	402	58	4	9,363.6	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,424	28,442	395	57	12	9,494.5	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,715	7,798	61	17	0	10,359.4	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,596	346,762	1,495	304	23	8,438.3	57.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,850	43,003	921	164	21	13,284.0	183.8	1.4%
Door	2,605	14,829	219	22	6	9,286.7	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,039	20,117	783	36	18	9,205.9	82.1	0.9%
Dunn	4,647	19,865	404	32	0	10,378.1	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,516	51,982	352	107	12	11,192.2	104.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,672	55	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,383	47,494	1,238	111	10	11,979.0	107.4	0.9%
Forest	960	4,559	79	23	3	10,455.2	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,905	24,389	777	85	7	9,365.3	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,499	17,693	121	18	6	9,491.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,572	8,251	439	19	3	8,235.5	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,024	11,642	88	10	1	8,504.6	42.0	0.5%
Iron	577	2,722	119	21	19	9,873.4	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,630	9,684	62	26	2	12,739.8	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,371	37,902	1,200	109	23	9,886.0	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,171	15,025	113	22	5	11,784.6	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,624	78,000	2,714	308	16	9,287.2	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,344	7,857	344	26	9	11,354.4	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,746	58,393	791	86	1	10,771.3	72.7	0.7%
Lafayette	1,560	6,927	153	8	1	9,240.1	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,998	7,514	167	32	14	10,102.6	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,060	11,367	214	64	28	10,758.7	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,549	32,363	1,240	69	19	9,406.4	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,651	54,314	1,534	188	37	10,873.5	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,142	19,757	458	66	4	10,117.7	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,374	6,524	188	23	5	8,934.8	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	803	3,930	8	11	0	18,325.0	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,789	513,162	10,063	1,304	47	11,200.8	138.1	1.2%
Monroe	4,536	19,940	107	37	1	9,861.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,450	17,892	553	55	9	11,722.2	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,631	15,701	159	71	6	10,110.5	197.7	2.0%
Outagamie	20,600	93,379	2,975	206	16	11,207.8	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,165	44,248	1,000	87	7	9,240.6	98.5	1.1%
Pepin	854	3,338	26	7	0	11,620.6	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,969	18,132	962	37	6	9,532.8	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,491	20,687	129	48	8	10,230.1	109.3	1.1%
Portage	6,748	28,086	571	68	4	9,542.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,230	5,897	106	7	0	8,907.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,716	103,218	3,074	347	28	11,124.8	177.8	1.6%
Richland	1,304	8,306	73	15	0	7,362.2	84.7	1.2%
Rock	16,003	79,669	1,904	170	23	9,985.3	106.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,314	5,362	55	17	1	9,040.9	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,822	35,775	278	48	6	9,287.6	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,686	8,758	56	25	1	10,175.6	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,695	18,435	580	72	11	11,379.1	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,738	50,102	907	142	11	11,996.7	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,826	40,004	1,695	53	7	8,876.1	60.1	0.7%
Taylor	1,870	6,247	235	24	8	9,086.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,537	12,919	106	42	3	12,058.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,921	13,070	71	39	3	6,342.7	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,249	9,455	146	39	2	10,385.1	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,457	44,047	2,829	136	23	9,216.0	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,457	7,007	89	19	2	9,190.7	119.9	1.3%
Washington	14,677	58,018	2,042	153	14	10,913.4	113.8	1.0%
Waukesha	43,732	187,402	4,940	526	52	10,970.2	131.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,892	21,774	1,123	120	44	9,456.6	232.0	2.5%
Waushara	2,159	11,330	338	34	3	8,885.5	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,135	86,531	3,085	197	22	10,709.0	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,047	33,897	494	80	13	9,519.6	108.1	1.1%