558 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 558 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 5,400 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,442, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 29,579, 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 11.64%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.06%. 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 328 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 1 from the day prior and a decrease of 8 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 304.

The state reported 82 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,983 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 374 in the past week.

DHS reported 18 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,935 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,309 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.50, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.73.

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 18,347.8 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,304.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,297.5). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,222.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,213.5) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,454.5 (up from 10,444.8).

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	1,743	8,680	195	12	5	8,504.5	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,263	7,614	98	15	0	7,961.9	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,811	20,314	156	82	1	12,665.6	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,145	7,302	125	19	0	7,530.9	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,616	138,238	3,582	244	45	12,144.6	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,364	5,600	34	7	0	10,097.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,381	6,509	143	22	0	8,940.2	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,795	22,687	672	51	5	11,257.7	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,386	30,559	192	94	2	11,501.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,258	11,457	402	59	4	9,378.0	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,436	28,516	398	57	12	9,515.5	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,721	7,816	61	17	0	10,395.7	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,648	347,655	1,498	306	23	8,448.1	57.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,868	43,082	923	164	21	13,304.2	183.8	1.4%
Door	2,607	14,883	219	22	7	9,293.8	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,051	20,152	795	37	18	9,233.3	84.3	0.9%
Dunn	4,658	19,920	406	32	0	10,402.7	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,526	52,063	353	107	12	11,201.9	104.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,676	55	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,419	47,621	1,239	111	10	12,013.8	107.4	0.9%
Forest	960	4,572	79	23	3	10,455.2	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,913	24,421	777	85	7	9,380.6	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,500	17,749	121	18	6	9,494.4	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,573	8,272	441	19	3	8,240.8	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,030	11,677	88	10	1	8,529.8	42.0	0.5%
Iron	578	2,722	119	21	19	9,890.5	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,634	9,702	62	26	2	12,759.2	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,390	38,018	1,204	109	23	9,908.5	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,178	15,037	114	22	6	11,810.6	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,670	78,293	2,713	308	16	9,314.6	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,348	7,887	352	26	9	11,373.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,783	58,562	795	87	1	10,802.6	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,563	6,942	152	9	1	9,257.8	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,003	7,543	171	32	14	10,127.9	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,063	11,410	214	64	28	10,769.3	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,559	32,455	1,249	70	19	9,418.8	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,675	54,542	1,542	188	37	10,891.3	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,163	19,826	462	66	4	10,169.0	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,374	6,543	188	23	5	8,934.8	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,944	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,993	514,996	10,090	1,309	47	11,222.4	138.6	1.2%
Monroe	4,543	20,009	107	37	1	9,876.5	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,463	17,959	559	55	9	11,756.5	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,631	15,750	160	71	6	10,110.5	197.7	2.0%
Outagamie	20,628	93,685	2,985	206	16	11,223.1	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,183	44,406	999	88	7	9,261.0	99.6	1.1%
Pepin	857	3,347	26	7	0	11,661.5	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,981	18,269	964	37	6	9,561.7	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,526	20,765	135	52	8	10,309.8	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,762	28,186	571	68	4	9,561.8	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,231	5,921	106	7	0	8,915.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,813	103,646	3,090	348	29	11,174.5	178.3	1.6%
Richland	1,303	8,320	74	15	0	7,356.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	16,051	79,874	1,909	174	23	10,015.3	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,316	5,384	58	17	1	9,054.6	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,830	35,798	277	48	6	9,300.3	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,694	8,782	62	26	1	10,223.9	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,705	18,485	581	72	11	11,403.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,747	50,264	911	142	11	12,004.5	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,911	40,542	1,684	53	7	8,972.5	60.1	0.7%
Taylor	1,870	6,262	236	24	8	9,086.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,542	12,942	106	42	3	12,075.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,924	13,080	71	39	3	6,352.6	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,260	9,506	146	39	2	10,435.9	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,478	44,206	2,830	136	23	9,236.5	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,468	7,040	90	20	2	9,260.1	126.2	1.4%
Washington	14,705	58,215	2,046	154	14	10,934.2	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,765	188,131	4,940	531	52	10,978.5	133.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,896	21,824	1,127	120	44	9,464.3	232.0	2.5%
Waushara	2,161	11,363	341	34	3	8,893.7	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,164	86,762	3,088	197	22	10,726.1	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,074	34,017	493	80	14	9,556.1	108.1	1.1%