6,020 Wisconsin Residents Have Died From COVID-19

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,266 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 5,726 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 8,306, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 14th. The seven-day testing total stands at 37,351, 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 22.24%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 21.94%. 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. Multiple public health benchmarks call for the positive case rate figure to be sustained under five percent. But the seven-day average hasn’t been below 10% since September 6th.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 583 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 11 from a day prior and 95 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,128.

The state reported 100 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,734 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 580 in the past week.

DHS reported 28 new deaths. A total of 6,020 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,174 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 32.7, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 43.37.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 18th worst in the state, even as its case and hospitalization load has surged to record levels. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 18,028.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,005.5). Dodge County has recorded 12,572.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,567.6). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Chippewa, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,151.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,132.4).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,483.1 (up from 9,461.2). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 337.5 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks according to the DHS activity level report released Wednesday. That’s down from the record 1,519.4 reported November 18th.

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	1,523	7,382	153	11	3	7,431.1	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,157	6,530	66	16	0	7,293.7	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,179	18,131	136	73	0	11,288.1	159.1	1.4%
Bayfield	1,052	6,392	61	18	0	6,919.2	118.4	1.7%
Brown	29,607	122,498	2,144	199	20	11,372.9	76.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,288	4,970	28	7	0	9,534.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,119	5,700	128	23	0	7,244.1	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,326	19,424	494	39	2	10,346.6	75.8	0.7%
Chippewa	6,888	27,146	147	84	2	10,725.6	130.8	1.2%
Clark	3,120	9,927	374	56	4	8,980.7	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,893	25,676	366	46	7	8,565.0	80.5	0.9%
Crawford	1,644	7,114	47	17	0	9,930.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	38,487	314,043	1,530	256	21	7,282.4	48.4	0.7%
Dodge	11,215	38,917	733	151	20	12,572.2	169.3	1.3%
Door	2,367	13,296	191	18	5	8,438.2	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,613	17,488	538	18	14	8,234.9	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	4,128	17,488	317	26	0	9,219.0	58.1	0.6%
Eau Claire	10,707	46,044	301	101	10	10,406.0	98.2	0.9%
Florence	429	1,541	35	12	0	9,703.7	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,651	41,700	980	86	8	11,270.8	83.2	0.7%
Forest	914	4,008	69	22	3	9,954.3	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,546	21,878	650	79	5	8,679.9	150.8	1.7%
Green	2,822	15,328	100	13	6	7,655.2	35.3	0.5%
Green Lake	1,507	7,247	411	17	3	7,895.0	89.1	1.1%
Iowa	1,811	10,398	88	9	1	7,609.6	37.8	0.5%
Iron	487	2,396	112	19	18	8,333.3	325.1	3.9%
Jackson	2,553	9,095	39	22	0	12,366.8	106.6	0.9%
Jefferson	7,643	33,693	907	73	6	9,026.3	86.2	1.0%
Juneau	2,909	14,009	80	17	1	10,810.9	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,405	68,586	1,977	281	17	8,562.6	167.0	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,375	6,870	161	27	1	11,504.6	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	11,869	49,775	627	74	0	10,030.2	62.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,385	6,049	144	7	1	8,203.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,903	6,586	153	31	12	9,622.3	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,832	10,005	187	56	17	9,957.1	196.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,049	28,130	1,072	61	15	8,783.4	76.0	0.9%
Marathon	13,381	47,213	1,314	170	32	9,930.9	126.2	1.3%
Marinette	3,927	16,917	374	61	2	9,592.6	149.0	1.6%
Marquette	1,286	5,761	167	21	5	8,362.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	790	3,745	2	11	0	18,028.3	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	95,879	439,165	8,517	1,175	34	10,151.5	124.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,140	17,619	84	30	1	9,000.4	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,189	15,821	419	47	7	11,034.7	123.8	1.1%
Oneida	3,250	14,084	130	57	4	9,049.6	158.7	1.8%
Outagamie	18,630	78,697	2,167	185	7	10,136.0	100.7	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,422	38,075	866	72	6	8,399.7	81.5	1.0%
Pepin	783	2,896	20	7	0	10,654.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,363	15,600	837	33	6	8,077.3	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,662	17,813	63	42	0	8,341.7	95.7	1.1%
Portage	6,256	25,237	484	60	4	8,846.3	84.8	1.0%
Price	1,118	5,177	92	7	0	8,096.8	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,956	95,325	2,505	300	28	10,223.2	153.7	1.5%
Richland	1,246	8,077	35	13	0	7,034.8	73.4	1.0%
Rock	13,948	69,565	1,475	148	12	8,703.1	92.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,234	4,655	40	16	1	8,490.4	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,126	33,617	237	37	6	8,177.3	59.0	0.7%
Sawyer	1,435	7,776	31	17	0	8,660.8	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,525	16,288	483	69	11	10,967.0	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,528	43,614	692	123	7	10,940.1	107.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,189	32,899	1,536	41	4	7,019.5	46.5	0.7%
Taylor	1,766	5,499	211	20	9	8,581.1	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,303	11,355	88	36	2	11,260.7	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,765	12,180	62	34	3	5,827.6	112.3	1.9%
Vilas	2,009	8,117	110	32	2	9,276.9	147.8	1.6%
Walworth	8,671	38,930	2,294	120	16	8,450.0	116.9	1.4%
Washburn	1,249	6,035	70	18	2	7,878.6	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,418	50,076	1,694	125	8	9,977.2	92.9	0.9%
Waukesha	39,510	161,031	3,920	453	41	9,911.1	113.6	1.1%
Waupaca	4,659	18,898	859	108	40	9,006.2	208.8	2.3%
Waushara	2,053	10,309	284	28	3	8,449.3	115.2	1.4%
Winnebago	16,660	75,091	2,551	171	19	9,838.0	101.0	1.0%
Wood	6,492	28,945	422	68	11	8,769.9	91.9	1.0%