448 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 448 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 3,779 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,723, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 26,038, 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 10.46%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.81%. 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 269 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 16 from the day prior and a decrease of 48 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 350.

The state reported 63 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,479 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 420 in the past week.

DHS reported 2 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,978 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,323 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.67, 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 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 13,355.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,351.3). 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, 11,280.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,270.9) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,510.0 (up from 10,502.2).

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	1,754	8,781	198	12	5	8,558.2	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,276	7,710	102	15	0	8,043.9	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,845	20,473	159	82	1	12,739.8	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,394	127	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,723	139,616	3,625	244	45	12,185.7	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,370	5,634	34	7	0	10,141.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,407	6,576	145	22	0	9,108.6	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,818	22,878	676	51	5	11,302.4	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,428	30,808	191	94	2	11,566.5	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,275	11,553	404	59	4	9,426.9	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,471	28,725	402	57	12	9,576.7	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,726	7,876	61	19	0	10,425.9	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,857	351,011	1,505	307	23	8,487.7	58.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,914	43,386	934	165	21	13,355.8	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,046	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,083	20,350	822	40	18	9,306.2	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,672	20,061	408	32	0	10,433.9	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,566	52,427	354	107	12	11,240.8	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,682	55	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,496	48,402	1,246	111	11	12,088.3	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,610	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,933	24,540	778	85	7	9,418.8	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,513	17,875	123	18	6	9,529.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,581	8,351	439	19	3	8,282.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,042	11,752	88	10	1	8,580.2	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,743	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,644	9,748	62	26	2	12,807.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,418	38,323	1,209	110	23	9,941.5	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,201	15,144	115	22	6	11,896.1	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,790	79,462	2,757	309	16	9,385.9	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,358	7,964	349	26	9	11,422.2	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,839	59,103	803	87	1	10,849.9	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,567	6,999	155	9	1	9,281.5	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,012	7,613	170	32	14	10,173.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,066	11,496	216	64	28	10,779.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,604	32,688	1,258	71	19	9,474.9	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,777	55,043	1,552	188	37	10,967.0	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,203	20,069	469	65	4	10,266.7	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,385	6,596	188	23	5	9,006.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,982	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,542	520,170	10,183	1,323	48	11,280.5	140.1	1.2%
Monroe	4,575	20,165	107	38	1	9,946.1	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,493	18,137	564	55	9	11,835.5	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,648	15,878	161	71	6	10,157.9	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,726	94,696	3,002	207	16	11,276.4	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,220	44,884	1,007	89	7	9,302.9	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	862	3,371	27	7	0	11,729.5	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,000	18,416	968	37	6	9,607.3	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,606	20,923	133	52	8	10,492.0	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,802	28,415	577	68	4	9,618.3	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,236	5,979	106	7	0	8,951.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,954	104,601	3,128	354	29	11,246.8	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,310	8,352	74	15	0	7,396.1	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,232	80,670	1,933	174	24	10,128.2	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,343	5,438	61	17	1	9,240.4	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,894	36,049	278	48	6	9,402.4	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,717	8,874	81	26	1	10,362.7	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,721	18,640	584	73	11	11,442.1	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,783	50,835	915	143	12	12,036.0	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	7,994	40,985	1,694	55	7	9,066.7	62.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,881	6,317	236	24	8	9,139.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,553	13,041	106	42	3	12,113.1	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,934	13,199	71	39	3	6,385.6	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,277	9,584	147	39	2	10,514.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,516	44,614	2,875	137	23	9,273.5	133.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,485	7,118	87	20	2	9,367.3	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,746	58,736	2,065	154	14	10,964.7	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,929	190,105	5,000	535	52	11,019.7	134.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,909	22,024	1,132	120	44	9,489.5	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,171	11,470	353	34	3	8,934.9	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,233	87,518	3,098	197	22	10,766.8	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,113	34,381	500	80	14	9,608.8	108.1	1.1%