293 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 293 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 3,891 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,359, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 25,054, 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 9.42%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.35%. 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 242 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 20 from the day prior and a decrease of 83 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 346.

The state reported 65 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,620 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 431 in the past week.

DHS reported 3 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,989 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,327 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.80, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.60.

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 13,368.1 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,364.7). 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, 11,294.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,286.9) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,522.0 (up from 10,517.0).

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	8,810	197	12	5	8,563.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,281	7,807	102	15	0	8,075.4	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,849	20,501	161	82	1	12,748.5	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,156	7,422	130	19	0	7,603.3	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,750	139,906	3,636	244	45	12,196.1	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,372	5,646	34	7	0	10,156.2	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,416	6,588	145	22	0	9,166.8	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,820	22,924	679	51	5	11,306.2	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,438	30,849	191	94	2	11,582.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,278	11,567	405	59	4	9,435.5	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,487	28,791	401	57	12	9,604.7	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,731	7,888	61	19	0	10,456.1	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,916	351,772	1,507	308	23	8,498.8	58.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,925	43,451	934	165	21	13,368.1	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,085	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,101	20,499	828	40	18	9,347.2	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,674	20,094	408	32	0	10,438.4	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,569	52,503	355	107	12	11,243.7	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,687	55	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,510	48,476	1,246	111	11	12,101.8	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,624	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,940	24,578	778	85	7	9,432.2	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,514	17,920	123	19	6	9,532.3	51.5	0.5%
Green Lake	1,585	8,368	441	19	3	8,303.6	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,046	11,774	88	10	1	8,597.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,747	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,645	9,777	62	26	2	12,812.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,423	38,410	1,212	110	23	9,947.4	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,203	15,159	115	22	6	11,903.5	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,817	79,659	2,770	309	17	9,402.0	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,359	7,989	348	26	9	11,427.0	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,805	59,229	803	87	1	10,821.2	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,571	7,013	154	9	1	9,305.2	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,012	7,628	171	32	14	10,173.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,067	11,510	217	64	29	10,783.3	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,615	32,761	1,260	71	19	9,488.6	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,799	55,150	1,550	188	37	10,983.3	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,208	20,107	471	65	4	10,279.0	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,387	6,622	189	23	5	9,019.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,984	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,672	521,511	10,198	1,327	48	11,294.3	140.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,583	20,209	107	38	1	9,963.5	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,498	18,172	560	55	9	11,848.7	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,649	15,890	160	71	6	10,160.7	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,752	94,934	3,011	207	16	11,290.5	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,228	44,966	1,009	89	7	9,311.9	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	862	3,370	27	7	0	11,729.5	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,002	18,447	968	37	6	9,612.1	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,626	20,972	135	52	8	10,537.6	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,804	28,448	577	68	4	9,621.2	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,237	5,992	106	7	0	8,958.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,980	104,870	3,141	354	29	11,260.1	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,313	8,371	74	15	0	7,413.1	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,261	80,853	1,940	175	24	10,146.3	109.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,356	5,454	61	17	1	9,329.8	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,908	36,107	278	48	6	9,424.8	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,724	8,888	90	26	2	10,405.0	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,725	18,685	587	73	11	11,451.8	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,795	51,010	917	143	12	12,046.5	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	8,017	41,092	1,693	56	7	9,092.8	63.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,883	6,325	236	24	8	9,149.7	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,554	13,058	106	42	3	12,116.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,938	13,233	71	39	3	6,398.8	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,277	9,614	147	39	2	10,514.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,517	44,714	2,882	138	23	9,274.5	134.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,488	7,133	87	20	2	9,386.2	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,758	58,899	2,065	154	14	10,973.6	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,968	190,603	5,010	537	52	11,029.4	134.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,912	22,067	1,133	120	44	9,495.3	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,179	11,495	357	34	3	8,967.8	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,248	87,695	3,095	197	22	10,775.7	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,132	34,486	499	80	14	9,634.5	108.1	1.1%