330 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 330 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 3,594 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,151, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 22,888, 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 9.40%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 9.78%. 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 221 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 4 from the day prior and a decrease of 64 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 363.

The state reported 46 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,788 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 372 in the past week.

DHS reported 5 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 7,003 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 8.23, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.27.

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 13,391.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,383.8). 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, 11,314.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,309.6) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,539.4 (up from 10,533.7).

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	1,756	8,850	195	13	5	8,567.9	63.4	0.7%
Ashland	1,286	7,842	100	15	0	8,106.9	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,862	20,564	160	82	1	12,776.8	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,157	7,444	128	19	0	7,609.8	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,775	140,404	3,653	244	46	12,205.7	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,374	5,662	34	7	0	10,171.0	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,420	6,614	145	22	0	9,192.7	142.4	1.5%
Calumet	5,830	23,008	678	51	5	11,325.7	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,463	30,936	191	94	2	11,621.0	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,284	11,608	405	59	4	9,452.8	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,492	28,885	402	57	12	9,613.5	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,732	7,901	61	19	0	10,462.1	114.8	1.1%
Dane	44,979	352,946	1,508	308	23	8,510.8	58.3	0.7%
Dodge	11,946	43,574	935	168	21	13,391.6	188.3	1.4%
Door	2,622	15,142	220	23	7	9,347.3	82.0	0.9%
Douglas	4,114	20,573	838	40	18	9,376.9	91.2	1.0%
Dunn	4,681	20,145	409	32	0	10,454.0	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,584	52,620	356	108	12	11,258.3	105.0	0.9%
Florence	451	1,689	55	13	0	10,201.3	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,531	48,647	1,250	112	11	12,122.1	108.3	0.9%
Forest	961	4,641	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,947	24,621	778	85	7	9,445.5	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,518	17,968	123	19	6	9,543.2	51.5	0.5%
Green Lake	1,593	8,397	441	19	3	8,345.6	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,048	11,807	89	10	1	8,605.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	580	2,755	120	21	19	9,924.7	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,645	9,798	62	26	2	12,812.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,436	38,550	1,212	110	23	9,962.8	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,210	15,166	116	22	6	11,929.5	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,847	80,049	2,776	309	17	9,419.8	183.7	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,361	8,025	349	26	9	11,436.7	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,810	59,407	808	87	1	10,825.4	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,573	7,027	153	9	1	9,317.1	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,015	7,668	170	32	14	10,188.6	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,067	11,544	217	64	29	10,783.3	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,625	32,893	1,260	71	19	9,501.1	88.5	0.9%
Marathon	14,817	55,365	1,551	188	37	10,996.7	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,216	20,185	472	65	4	10,298.5	158.8	1.5%
Marquette	1,391	6,636	189	23	5	9,045.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,981	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,866	523,689	10,217	1,327	48	11,314.8	140.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,598	20,259	107	38	1	9,996.1	82.6	0.8%
Oconto	4,500	18,254	569	56	9	11,854.0	147.5	1.2%
Oneida	3,651	15,951	160	71	6	10,166.2	197.7	1.9%
Outagamie	20,771	95,235	3,019	208	16	11,300.9	113.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,245	45,157	1,010	90	7	9,331.1	101.9	1.1%
Pepin	863	3,382	27	7	0	11,743.1	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	4,005	18,508	968	37	6	9,619.3	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,645	21,033	135	52	8	10,580.9	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,822	28,558	579	68	4	9,646.6	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,237	6,005	106	7	0	8,958.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	22,034	105,178	3,141	354	29	11,287.7	181.3	1.6%
Richland	1,317	8,382	73	16	0	7,435.6	90.3	1.2%
Rock	16,312	81,120	1,946	175	24	10,178.1	109.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,365	5,487	61	17	1	9,391.8	117.0	1.2%
Sauk	5,919	36,185	279	48	6	9,442.3	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,728	8,924	94	26	2	10,429.1	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,733	18,757	586	73	11	11,471.2	176.9	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,819	51,275	918	143	12	12,067.4	124.9	1.0%
St. Croix	8,035	41,264	1,692	57	7	9,113.2	64.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,889	6,347	236	24	8	9,178.8	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,556	13,097	107	42	3	12,123.3	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,943	13,261	71	39	3	6,415.3	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,280	9,666	147	39	2	10,528.3	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,542	44,905	2,896	139	23	9,298.8	135.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,489	7,168	87	20	2	9,392.5	126.2	1.3%
Washington	14,782	59,147	2,067	154	14	10,991.5	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	44,007	191,427	5,015	539	53	11,039.2	135.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,921	22,134	1,136	120	44	9,512.7	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,195	11,523	355	34	3	9,033.7	139.9	1.5%
Winnebago	18,272	88,021	3,100	197	23	10,789.9	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,145	34,645	499	80	14	9,652.0	108.1	1.1%