232 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 232 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 3,645 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,060, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 27,857, 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 10.98%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.93%. 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 2 from the day prior and an increase of 7 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 309.

The state reported 34 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,223 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 415 in the past week.

DHS reported 0 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,958 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,320 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 4.97.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 16th 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 13,333.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,332.2). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee and Calumet are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,255.1 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,249.9) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,485.3 (up from 10,481.2).

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 13th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (80.3) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (50-99 is substantial transmission).

The city has low transmission based on the positive test rate (4.0%). Low transmission is defined as less than 5%.

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 38.2%. 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	1,752	8,747	195	12	5	8,548.4	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,265	7,641	99	15	0	7,974.5	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,832	20,389	160	82	1	12,711.4	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,341	125	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,664	138,998	3,613	244	45	12,163.1	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,369	5,624	34	7	0	10,134.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,399	6,551	143	22	0	9,056.8	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,808	22,796	673	51	5	11,282.9	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,405	30,709	192	94	2	11,530.7	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,268	11,498	403	59	4	9,406.8	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,461	28,618	401	57	12	9,559.2	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,723	7,842	61	18	0	10,407.7	108.7	1.0%
Dane	44,767	349,653	1,498	306	23	8,470.6	57.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,894	43,274	929	165	21	13,333.3	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,616	14,981	220	22	7	9,325.9	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,068	20,231	807	39	18	9,272.0	88.9	1.0%
Dunn	4,665	19,998	406	32	0	10,418.3	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,555	52,243	354	107	12	11,230.1	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,680	54	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,456	47,925	1,243	111	10	12,049.6	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,589	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,922	24,481	778	85	7	9,397.8	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,506	17,824	123	18	6	9,510.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,578	8,313	440	19	3	8,267.0	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,033	11,720	89	10	1	8,542.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	578	2,735	119	21	19	9,890.5	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,642	9,718	62	26	2	12,797.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,405	38,190	1,206	110	23	9,926.2	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,188	15,087	114	22	6	11,847.8	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,740	78,787	2,723	308	16	9,356.2	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,916	351	26	9	11,402.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,817	58,875	797	87	1	10,831.3	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,566	6,977	154	9	1	9,275.6	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,009	7,571	170	32	14	10,158.3	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,064	11,446	216	64	28	10,772.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,581	32,633	1,255	70	19	9,446.3	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,738	54,790	1,546	188	37	10,938.0	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,181	19,973	464	65	4	10,213.0	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,379	6,564	186	23	5	8,967.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,974	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,302	518,063	10,120	1,320	48	11,255.1	139.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,559	20,104	107	37	1	9,911.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,475	18,042	559	55	9	11,788.1	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,643	15,807	159	71	6	10,144.0	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,681	94,234	2,993	206	16	11,251.9	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,206	44,653	1,002	89	7	9,287.0	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	860	3,363	27	7	0	11,702.3	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,994	18,343	965	37	6	9,592.9	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,576	20,864	133	52	8	10,423.7	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,777	28,293	575	68	4	9,583.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,234	5,951	106	7	0	8,936.8	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,893	104,238	3,115	350	29	11,215.5	179.3	1.6%
Richland	1,307	8,329	73	15	0	7,379.2	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,164	80,340	1,922	174	24	10,085.8	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,333	5,417	60	17	1	9,171.6	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,872	35,959	277	48	6	9,367.3	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,711	8,827	81	26	1	10,326.5	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,712	18,566	582	72	11	11,420.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,767	50,560	910	142	11	12,022.0	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,964	40,754	1,685	54	7	9,032.7	61.2	0.7%
Taylor	1,877	6,290	236	24	8	9,120.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,545	13,000	106	42	3	12,085.8	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,929	13,147	71	39	3	6,369.1	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,268	9,549	146	39	2	10,472.8	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,494	44,431	2,856	136	23	9,252.1	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,480	7,082	87	20	2	9,335.8	126.2	1.4%
Washington	14,730	58,525	2,056	154	14	10,952.8	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,836	189,203	4,947	534	52	10,996.3	134.0	1.2%
Waupaca	4,900	21,924	1,131	120	44	9,472.1	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,168	11,422	341	34	3	8,922.5	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,199	87,148	3,096	197	22	10,746.8	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,089	34,226	496	80	14	9,576.4	108.1	1.1%