481 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 481 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,996 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,935, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 28,880, 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 10.16%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.12%. 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, a decrease of 5 from the day prior and a decrease of 11 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 326.

The state reported 95 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,345 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 444 in the past week.

DHS reported 13 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,971 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,322 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.73, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.90.

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 13,345.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,333.3). 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, 11,266.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,260.3) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,495.6 (up from 10,487.3).

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	1,755	8,761	194	12	5	8,563.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,267	7,660	101	15	0	7,987.1	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,837	20,424	160	82	1	12,722.3	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,361	125	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,689	139,244	3,617	244	45	12,172.7	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,369	5,630	34	7	0	10,134.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,401	6,561	143	22	0	9,069.7	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,810	22,826	676	51	5	11,286.8	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,416	30,770	191	94	2	11,547.8	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,270	11,515	404	59	4	9,412.5	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,465	28,669	402	57	12	9,566.2	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,723	7,853	61	18	0	10,407.7	108.7	1.0%
Dane	44,795	350,147	1,501	307	23	8,475.9	58.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,905	43,312	930	165	21	13,345.7	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,618	15,011	220	22	7	9,333.0	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,077	20,263	807	39	18	9,292.5	88.9	1.0%
Dunn	4,668	20,032	407	32	0	10,425.0	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,559	52,328	353	107	12	11,234.0	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,680	54	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,471	48,264	1,244	111	10	12,064.1	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,604	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,923	24,512	778	85	7	9,399.7	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,506	17,836	123	18	6	9,510.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,580	8,332	440	19	3	8,277.5	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,036	11,731	89	10	1	8,555.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,738	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,642	9,728	62	26	2	12,797.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,411	38,232	1,209	110	23	9,933.3	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,198	15,098	114	22	6	11,884.9	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,762	79,297	2,734	309	16	9,369.3	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,939	351	26	9	11,402.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,829	58,995	803	87	1	10,841.4	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,566	6,988	154	9	1	9,275.6	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,011	7,582	170	32	14	10,168.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,064	11,462	216	64	28	10,772.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,596	32,679	1,255	70	19	9,464.9	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,752	54,892	1,550	188	37	10,948.4	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,189	20,013	466	65	4	10,232.5	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,380	6,570	186	23	5	8,973.9	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,982	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,405	519,003	10,141	1,322	48	11,266.0	140.0	1.2%
Monroe	4,565	20,134	107	38	1	9,924.3	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,487	18,086	559	55	9	11,819.7	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,645	15,835	159	71	6	10,149.5	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,698	94,459	2,997	207	16	11,261.2	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,213	44,767	1,001	89	7	9,294.9	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	861	3,367	27	7	0	11,715.9	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,000	18,381	965	37	6	9,607.3	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,600	20,883	133	52	8	10,478.4	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,789	28,363	576	68	4	9,600.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,235	5,961	106	7	0	8,944.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,921	104,441	3,120	352	29	11,229.8	180.3	1.6%
Richland	1,309	8,344	74	15	0	7,390.5	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,192	80,446	1,921	174	24	10,103.3	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,338	5,428	63	17	1	9,206.0	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,879	35,961	277	48	6	9,378.5	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,714	8,847	80	26	1	10,344.6	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,712	18,602	582	73	11	11,420.3	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,769	50,681	915	143	12	12,023.8	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	7,977	40,855	1,686	55	7	9,047.4	62.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,877	6,298	235	24	8	9,120.5	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,548	13,017	107	42	3	12,096.0	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,931	13,182	71	39	3	6,375.7	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,271	9,565	148	39	2	10,486.7	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,504	44,506	2,862	137	23	9,261.8	133.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,482	7,096	87	20	2	9,348.4	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,741	58,630	2,057	154	14	10,961.0	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,865	189,596	4,952	535	52	11,003.6	134.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,904	21,977	1,130	120	44	9,479.8	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,169	11,448	343	34	3	8,926.7	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,217	87,328	3,096	197	22	10,757.4	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,098	34,292	499	80	14	9,588.5	108.1	1.1%