147 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 147 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 2,946 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,274, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,355, 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 9.34%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.22%. 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, the same number as the day prior and a decrease of 81 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 353.

The state reported 23 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,643 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 420 in the past week.

DHS reported no 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 8.37, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 4.70.

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 13,370.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,368.1). 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, 11,298.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,294.3) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,524.6 (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	8,828	198	12	5	8,563.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,281	7,811	102	15	0	8,075.4	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,852	20,526	161	82	1	12,755.0	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,156	7,424	130	19	0	7,603.3	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,751	140,012	3,640	244	45	12,196.5	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,372	5,650	34	7	0	10,156.2	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,417	6,596	145	22	0	9,173.3	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,822	22,952	679	51	5	11,310.1	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,438	30,870	191	94	2	11,582.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,280	11,582	405	59	4	9,441.3	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,490	28,833	401	57	12	9,610.0	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,731	7,894	61	19	0	10,456.1	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,937	352,132	1,508	308	23	8,502.8	58.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,927	43,487	935	165	21	13,370.3	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,098	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,105	20,517	828	40	18	9,356.3	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,676	20,117	408	32	0	10,442.9	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,576	52,552	354	107	12	11,250.5	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,687	55	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,510	48,504	1,246	111	11	12,101.8	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,628	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,940	24,593	778	85	7	9,432.2	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,515	17,934	123	19	6	9,535.0	51.5	0.5%
Green Lake	1,586	8,373	441	19	3	8,308.9	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,046	11,782	88	10	1	8,597.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,749	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,645	9,781	62	26	2	12,812.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,423	38,444	1,212	110	23	9,947.4	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,206	15,174	115	22	6	11,914.7	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,820	79,767	2,770	309	17	9,403.7	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,360	7,996	348	26	9	11,431.9	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,808	59,276	803	87	1	10,823.7	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,571	7,016	154	9	1	9,305.2	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,012	7,644	171	32	14	10,173.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,067	11,518	217	64	29	10,783.3	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,615	32,797	1,260	71	19	9,488.6	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,802	55,202	1,550	188	37	10,985.5	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,208	20,129	471	65	4	10,279.0	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,387	6,626	189	23	5	9,019.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,986	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,715	521,966	10,198	1,327	48	11,298.8	140.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,588	20,219	107	38	1	9,974.3	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,499	18,191	562	55	9	11,851.3	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,649	15,907	160	71	6	10,160.7	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,757	95,038	3,013	207	16	11,293.3	112.6	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,228	45,004	1,009	89	7	9,311.9	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	862	3,372	27	7	0	11,729.5	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,002	18,470	968	37	6	9,612.1	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,626	20,985	135	52	8	10,537.6	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,805	28,471	577	68	4	9,622.6	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,237	5,994	106	7	0	8,958.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,984	104,991	3,140	354	29	11,262.1	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,314	8,375	74	15	0	7,418.7	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,261	80,943	1,940	175	24	10,146.3	109.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,360	5,459	61	17	1	9,357.4	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,912	36,156	279	48	6	9,431.1	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,725	8,891	89	26	2	10,411.0	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,725	18,696	587	73	11	11,451.8	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,795	51,072	917	143	12	12,046.5	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	8,021	41,130	1,693	56	7	9,097.3	63.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,885	6,330	236	24	8	9,159.4	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,554	13,065	106	42	3	12,116.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,939	13,244	71	39	3	6,402.1	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,277	9,624	147	39	2	10,514.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,517	44,760	2,882	138	23	9,274.5	134.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,488	7,145	87	20	2	9,386.2	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,758	58,958	2,065	154	14	10,973.6	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,968	190,794	5,010	537	52	11,029.4	134.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,912	22,078	1,133	120	44	9,495.3	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,179	11,506	357	34	3	8,967.8	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,251	87,779	3,095	197	22	10,777.5	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,137	34,537	499	80	14	9,641.2	108.1	1.1%