376 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 376 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 2,775 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,204, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,121, 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 9.53%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 9.88%. 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 225 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 29 from the day prior and a decrease of 91 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 350.

The state reported 75 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,742 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 397 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,998 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 8.07, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.30.

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 13,383.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,370.3). 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, 11,309.6 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,302.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,533.7 (up from 10,527.2).

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 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	8,838	195	13	5	8,563.1	63.4	0.7%
Ashland	1,284	7,837	101	15	0	8,094.3	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,861	20,546	161	82	1	12,774.6	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,155	7,443	129	19	0	7,596.7	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,766	140,244	3,651	244	46	12,202.3	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,373	5,659	34	7	0	10,163.6	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,420	6,604	145	22	0	9,192.7	142.4	1.5%
Calumet	5,826	22,991	679	51	5	11,317.9	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,447	30,910	191	94	2	11,596.1	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,283	11,595	405	59	4	9,449.9	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,490	28,861	401	57	12	9,610.0	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,732	7,905	61	19	0	10,462.1	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,960	352,606	1,508	308	23	8,507.2	58.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,939	43,550	934	165	21	13,383.8	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,125	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,111	20,555	834	40	18	9,370.0	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,679	20,130	408	32	0	10,449.6	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,581	52,613	356	108	12	11,255.4	105.0	0.9%
Florence	451	1,690	55	13	0	10,201.3	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,524	48,584	1,250	112	11	12,115.3	108.3	0.9%
Forest	962	4,635	79	23	3	10,477.0	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,945	24,611	778	85	7	9,441.7	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,516	17,947	123	19	6	9,537.8	51.5	0.5%
Green Lake	1,592	8,386	441	19	3	8,340.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,046	11,796	89	10	1	8,597.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,753	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,645	9,793	62	26	2	12,812.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,431	38,501	1,212	110	23	9,956.9	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,207	15,158	115	22	6	11,918.4	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,834	79,917	2,774	309	17	9,412.1	183.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,361	8,008	347	26	9	11,436.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,805	59,316	805	87	1	10,821.2	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,573	7,020	153	9	1	9,317.1	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,013	7,660	170	32	14	10,178.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,067	11,534	217	64	29	10,783.3	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,624	32,849	1,260	71	19	9,499.8	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,812	55,305	1,551	188	37	10,992.9	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,215	20,166	471	65	4	10,296.1	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,389	6,632	189	23	5	9,032.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,983	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,817	523,026	10,214	1,327	48	11,309.6	140.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,594	20,232	107	38	1	9,987.4	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,498	18,225	565	56	9	11,848.7	147.5	1.2%
Oneida	3,650	15,929	160	71	6	10,163.5	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,766	95,166	3,018	208	16	11,298.2	113.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,240	45,109	1,010	90	7	9,325.5	101.9	1.1%
Pepin	863	3,380	27	7	0	11,743.1	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,004	18,494	968	37	6	9,616.9	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,640	21,010	134	52	8	10,569.5	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,814	28,521	577	68	4	9,635.3	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,237	6,004	106	7	0	8,958.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	22,012	105,117	3,140	354	29	11,276.5	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,314	8,386	74	16	0	7,418.7	90.3	1.2%
Rock	16,294	81,040	1,944	175	24	10,166.9	109.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,365	5,471	61	17	1	9,391.8	117.0	1.2%
Sauk	5,914	36,143	279	48	6	9,434.3	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,726	8,909	91	26	2	10,417.0	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,729	18,730	586	73	11	11,461.5	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,810	51,210	919	143	12	12,059.6	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	8,028	41,211	1,692	56	7	9,105.2	63.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,888	6,335	236	24	8	9,174.0	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,554	13,080	106	42	3	12,116.5	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,941	13,245	71	39	3	6,408.7	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,278	9,646	147	39	2	10,519.0	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,532	44,841	2,892	139	23	9,289.1	135.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,489	7,149	88	20	2	9,392.5	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,776	59,066	2,066	154	14	10,987.0	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,994	191,148	5,015	538	53	11,036.0	135.0	1.2%
Waupaca	4,919	22,102	1,135	120	44	9,508.8	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,187	11,516	358	34	3	9,000.7	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,264	87,934	3,096	197	23	10,785.1	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,142	34,586	500	80	14	9,648.0	108.1	1.1%