383 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 383 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 3,827 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,760, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 27,307, 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 10.11%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.90%. 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 285 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 31 from the day prior and a decrease of 43 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 357.

The state reported 71 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,416 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 433 in the past week.

DHS reported 5 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,976 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 8.87, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.47.

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 13,351.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,345.7). 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, 11,270.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,266.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,502.2 (up from 10,495.6).

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	1,754	8,776	197	12	5	8,558.2	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,275	7,694	103	15	0	8,037.6	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,841	20,456	160	82	1	12,731.0	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,379	127	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,707	139,430	3,619	244	45	12,179.6	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,370	5,629	34	7	0	10,141.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,405	6,571	143	22	0	9,095.6	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,815	22,845	676	51	5	11,296.5	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,422	30,786	191	94	2	11,557.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,271	11,539	404	59	4	9,415.4	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,467	28,700	402	57	12	9,569.7	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,726	7,872	61	19	0	10,425.9	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,820	350,582	1,503	307	23	8,480.7	58.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,910	43,354	931	165	21	13,351.3	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,620	15,031	220	23	7	9,340.1	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,079	20,338	817	40	18	9,297.1	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,670	20,050	408	32	0	10,429.5	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,563	52,382	353	107	12	11,237.9	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,683	54	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,488	48,338	1,246	111	11	12,080.5	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,606	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,930	24,535	778	85	7	9,413.1	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,510	17,858	123	18	6	9,521.5	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,581	8,340	439	19	3	8,282.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,040	11,743	88	10	1	8,571.8	42.0	0.5%
Iron	579	2,742	120	21	19	9,907.6	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,644	9,737	62	26	2	12,807.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,415	38,270	1,210	110	23	9,938.0	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,199	15,126	115	22	6	11,888.7	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,781	79,372	2,740	309	16	9,380.6	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,948	351	26	9	11,402.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,825	59,064	805	87	1	10,838.1	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,566	6,988	154	9	1	9,275.6	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,011	7,600	170	32	14	10,168.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,066	11,475	216	64	28	10,779.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,601	32,681	1,257	71	19	9,471.2	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,767	54,986	1,548	188	37	10,959.5	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,192	20,042	468	65	4	10,239.9	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,382	6,584	186	23	5	8,986.9	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,981	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,451	519,535	10,162	1,322	48	11,270.9	140.0	1.2%
Monroe	4,570	20,149	107	38	1	9,935.2	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,492	18,102	563	55	9	11,832.9	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,647	15,858	159	71	6	10,155.1	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,709	94,544	2,999	207	16	11,267.1	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,217	44,816	1,003	89	7	9,299.5	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	861	3,370	27	7	0	11,715.9	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,000	18,397	968	37	6	9,607.3	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,603	20,894	133	52	8	10,485.2	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,799	28,389	577	68	4	9,614.1	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,235	5,973	106	7	0	8,944.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,940	104,511	3,126	353	29	11,239.6	180.8	1.6%
Richland	1,310	8,355	74	15	0	7,396.1	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,205	80,564	1,927	174	24	10,111.4	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,342	5,433	63	17	1	9,233.5	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,885	36,007	278	48	6	9,388.1	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,715	8,861	81	26	1	10,350.7	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,716	18,622	583	73	11	11,430.0	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,774	50,766	916	143	12	12,028.1	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	7,984	40,912	1,689	55	7	9,055.3	62.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,880	6,309	236	24	8	9,135.1	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,551	13,031	106	42	3	12,106.2	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,933	13,193	71	39	3	6,382.3	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,273	9,579	147	39	2	10,495.9	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,508	44,562	2,871	137	23	9,265.7	133.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,484	7,111	87	20	2	9,361.0	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,742	58,697	2,061	154	14	10,961.7	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,898	189,876	4,977	535	52	11,011.9	134.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,907	21,998	1,131	120	44	9,485.6	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,169	11,462	348	34	3	8,926.7	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,225	87,416	3,097	197	22	10,762.1	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,102	34,339	499	80	14	9,593.9	108.1	1.1%