116 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 116 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 2,345 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,971, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 27,897, 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 10.65%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.63%. 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 321 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 2 from the day prior and a decrease of 1 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 326.

The state reported 27 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,250 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 419 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 8.23, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.17.

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 (unchanged). 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, 11,260.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,255.1) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,487.3 (up from 10,485.3).

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	1,753	8,756	195	12	5	8,553.3	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,267	7,649	99	15	0	7,987.1	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,832	20,406	160	82	1	12,711.4	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,353	125	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,670	139,090	3,613	244	45	12,165.4	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,369	5,625	34	7	0	10,134.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,399	6,554	143	22	0	9,056.8	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,808	22,813	673	51	5	11,282.9	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,405	30,727	192	94	2	11,530.7	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,270	11,505	403	59	4	9,412.5	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,463	28,646	402	57	12	9,562.7	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,723	7,848	61	18	0	10,407.7	108.7	1.0%
Dane	44,771	349,840	1,498	306	23	8,471.4	57.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,894	43,293	929	165	21	13,333.3	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,616	14,988	220	22	7	9,325.9	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,069	20,245	809	39	18	9,274.3	88.9	1.0%
Dunn	4,666	20,010	406	32	0	10,420.5	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,555	52,271	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	12,464	47,938	1,243	111	10	12,057.3	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,591	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,922	24,494	778	85	7	9,397.8	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,506	17,834	123	18	6	9,510.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,578	8,319	440	19	3	8,267.0	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,033	11,721	89	10	1	8,542.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	578	2,736	119	21	19	9,890.5	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,642	9,722	62	26	2	12,797.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,406	38,202	1,206	110	23	9,927.4	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,190	15,096	114	22	6	11,855.2	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,740	78,869	2,723	308	16	9,356.2	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,926	351	26	9	11,402.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,816	58,919	797	87	1	10,830.5	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,566	6,983	154	9	1	9,275.6	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,009	7,572	170	32	14	10,158.3	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,064	11,449	216	64	28	10,772.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,581	32,654	1,255	70	19	9,446.3	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,739	54,838	1,547	188	37	10,938.8	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,181	19,992	464	65	4	10,213.0	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,379	6,567	186	23	5	8,967.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,976	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,351	518,519	10,123	1,320	48	11,260.3	139.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,559	20,114	107	37	1	9,911.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,475	18,061	559	55	9	11,788.1	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,644	15,821	159	71	6	10,146.7	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,685	94,309	2,994	206	16	11,254.1	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,206	44,706	1,002	89	7	9,287.0	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	860	3,364	27	7	0	11,702.3	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,995	18,358	965	37	6	9,595.3	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,576	20,877	133	52	8	10,423.7	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,777	28,308	575	68	4	9,583.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,234	5,957	106	7	0	8,936.8	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,897	104,328	3,117	350	29	11,217.6	179.3	1.6%
Richland	1,307	8,331	74	15	0	7,379.2	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,168	80,412	1,922	174	24	10,088.3	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,338	5,424	60	17	1	9,206.0	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,873	35,979	277	48	6	9,368.9	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,711	8,839	81	26	1	10,326.5	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,712	18,575	582	72	11	11,420.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,767	50,624	911	142	11	12,022.0	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,967	40,797	1,685	54	7	9,036.1	61.2	0.7%
Taylor	1,877	6,292	236	24	8	9,120.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,547	13,009	106	42	3	12,092.6	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,930	13,164	71	39	3	6,372.4	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,268	9,556	146	39	2	10,472.8	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,494	44,471	2,856	136	23	9,252.1	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,481	7,088	87	20	2	9,342.1	126.2	1.4%
Washington	14,730	58,590	2,056	154	14	10,952.8	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,836	189,359	4,947	534	52	10,996.3	134.0	1.2%
Waupaca	4,903	21,941	1,131	120	44	9,477.9	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,168	11,429	341	34	3	8,922.5	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,201	87,233	3,098	197	22	10,747.9	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,094	34,253	502	80	14	9,583.1	108.1	1.1%