406 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 406 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 3,571 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,616, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 25,471, 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 10.27%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.86%. 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 262 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 7 from the day prior and a decrease of 64 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 364.

The state reported 76 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,555 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 431 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,986 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,326 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.83, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.83.

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 13,364.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,355.8). 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, 11,286.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,280.5) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,517.0 (up from 10,510.0).

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 20th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (56.3) 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 (3.3%). 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 40.4%. 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. The order is scheduled to be terminated on June 1st.

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	8,796	198	12	5	8,563.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,279	7,787	100	15	0	8,062.8	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,848	20,488	161	82	1	12,746.3	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,156	7,418	129	19	0	7,603.3	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,738	139,765	3,629	244	45	12,191.5	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,373	5,641	34	7	0	10,163.6	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,414	6,582	145	22	0	9,153.9	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,819	22,902	677	51	5	11,304.3	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,433	30,822	191	94	2	11,574.3	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,277	11,558	405	59	4	9,432.7	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,481	28,753	402	57	12	9,594.2	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,728	7,885	61	19	0	10,437.9	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,892	351,315	1,506	308	23	8,494.3	58.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,922	43,407	934	165	21	13,364.7	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,057	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,096	20,471	826	40	18	9,335.8	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,674	20,082	408	32	0	10,438.4	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,569	52,465	354	107	12	11,243.7	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,684	55	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,506	48,442	1,246	111	11	12,097.9	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,618	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,935	24,556	778	85	7	9,422.6	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,514	17,906	123	19	6	9,532.3	51.5	0.5%
Green Lake	1,585	8,360	439	19	3	8,303.6	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,044	11,766	88	10	1	8,588.6	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,746	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,644	9,768	62	26	2	12,807.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,421	38,370	1,211	110	23	9,945.1	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,203	15,148	115	22	6	11,903.5	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,801	79,534	2,764	309	17	9,392.4	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,358	7,979	349	26	9	11,422.2	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,844	59,149	803	87	1	10,854.1	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,570	7,004	154	9	1	9,299.3	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,012	7,618	170	32	14	10,173.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,066	11,501	217	64	29	10,779.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,609	32,716	1,260	71	19	9,481.1	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,787	55,092	1,551	188	37	10,974.4	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,205	20,083	470	65	4	10,271.6	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,387	6,610	189	23	5	9,019.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,983	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,602	520,761	10,188	1,326	48	11,286.9	140.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,582	20,183	107	38	1	9,961.3	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,496	18,145	562	55	9	11,843.4	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,649	15,883	160	71	6	10,160.7	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,741	94,807	3,006	207	16	11,284.5	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,223	44,915	1,009	89	7	9,306.2	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	862	3,370	27	7	0	11,729.5	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,002	18,432	968	37	6	9,612.1	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,618	20,958	133	52	8	10,519.4	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,802	28,420	577	68	4	9,618.3	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,236	5,987	106	7	0	8,951.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,972	104,760	3,130	354	29	11,256.0	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,312	8,361	74	15	0	7,407.4	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,245	80,753	1,938	175	24	10,136.3	109.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,352	5,445	61	17	1	9,302.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,900	36,085	277	48	6	9,412.0	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,721	8,886	86	26	2	10,386.9	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,723	18,662	585	73	11	11,446.9	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,787	50,940	916	143	12	12,039.5	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	8,003	41,040	1,694	55	7	9,076.9	62.4	0.7%
Taylor	1,881	6,317	236	24	8	9,139.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,554	13,049	106	42	3	12,116.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,936	13,223	71	39	3	6,392.2	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,277	9,600	147	39	2	10,514.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,517	44,660	2,879	138	23	9,274.5	134.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,486	7,127	87	20	2	9,373.6	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,747	58,774	2,066	154	14	10,965.5	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,956	190,338	5,005	536	52	11,026.4	134.5	1.2%
Waupaca	4,911	22,049	1,133	120	44	9,493.3	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,175	11,482	355	34	3	8,951.4	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,242	87,580	3,097	197	22	10,772.2	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,122	34,421	500	80	14	9,620.9	108.1	1.1%