671 New COVID-19 Cases, Lowest Since Christmas Holiday

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 671 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 4,527 processed tests. It’s the lowest case total reported since December 26th and September 7th before that.

The seven-day case total stands at 7,411, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 12th. The seven-day testing total stands at 34,733, 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 21.34%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 21.76%. 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 570 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, no change in the past 24 hours, but a decrease of 127 from a week ago. The total decreased every day for the past week. Thirty days ago the total was 1,054.

The state reported 61 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 24,885 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 587 in the past week.

DHS reported two new deaths. A total of 6,054 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,180 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 31.17, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 41.07.

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 18,051.1 cases per 100,000 residents (no change). Dodge County has recorded 12,595.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,586.7). 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, 10,182.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,169.7).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,510.8 (up from 9,499.2). 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	1,526	7,414	156	11	3.00	7,445.70	53.7	0.70%
Ashland	1,160	6,558	64	16	0.00	7,312.60	100.9	1.40%
Barron	5,188	18,177	137	72	0.00	11,307.80	156.9	1.40%
Bayfield	1,054	6,418	64	18	0.00	6,932.40	118.4	1.70%
Brown	29,657	122,829	2,182	199	20.00	11,392.10	76.4	0.70%
Buffalo	1,291	5,000	30	7	0.00	9,556.60	51.8	0.50%
Burnett	1,124	5,725	127	23	0.00	7,276.50	148.9	2.00%
Calumet	5,334	19,507	499	39	2.00	10,362.10	75.8	0.70%
Chippewa	6,910	27,245	150	86	2.00	10,759.90	133.9	1.20%
Clark	3,128	9,969	374	56	4.00	9,003.80	161.2	1.80%
Columbia	4,903	25,754	369	46	7.00	8,582.50	80.5	0.90%
Crawford	1,644	7,134	47	17	0.00	9,930.50	102.7	1.00%
Dane	38,669	314,788	1,531	256	21.00	7,316.80	48.4	0.70%
Dodge	11,236	39,001	737	153	21.00	12,595.70	171.5	1.40%
Door	2,374	13,311	192	18	5.00	8,463.20	64.2	0.80%
Douglas	3,626	17,573	542	23	14.00	8,264.60	52.4	0.60%
Dunn	4,137	17,558	323	26	0.00	9,239.10	58.1	0.60%
Eau Claire	10,767	46,180	298	101	10.00	10,464.30	98.2	0.90%
Florence	430	1,545	34	12	0.00	9,726.30	271.4	2.80%
Fond du Lac	11,690	41,866	985	87	8.00	11,308.60	84.2	0.70%
Forest	914	4,019	70	22	3.00	9,954.30	239.6	2.40%
Grant	4,553	21,935	655	79	5.00	8,693.20	150.8	1.70%
Green	2,851	15,376	99	13	6.00	7,733.80	35.3	0.50%
Green Lake	1,508	7,256	416	17	3.00	7,900.30	89.1	1.10%
Iowa	1,815	10,424	88	9	1.00	7,626.40	37.8	0.50%
Iron	489	2,407	112	19	18.00	8,367.60	325.1	3.90%
Jackson	2,556	9,129	39	22	0.00	12,381.30	106.6	0.90%
Jefferson	7,665	33,786	918	73	6.00	9,052.30	86.2	1.00%
Juneau	2,923	14,049	81	18	1.00	10,862.90	66.9	0.60%
Kenosha	14,451	68,762	1,989	280	17.00	8,590.00	166.4	1.90%
Kewaunee	2,377	6,890	161	27	1.00	11,514.20	130.8	1.10%
La Crosse	11,905	49,965	629	74	0.00	10,060.60	62.5	0.60%
Lafayette	1,392	6,062	144	7	1.00	8,245.00	41.5	0.50%
Langlade	1,906	6,603	153	31	12.00	9,637.50	156.7	1.60%
Lincoln	2,842	10,025	187	56	17.00	9,992.30	196.9	2.00%
Manitowoc	7,066	28,240	1,075	61	15.00	8,804.50	76	0.90%
Marathon	13,403	47,371	1,309	170	32.00	9,947.20	126.2	1.30%
Marinette	3,931	16,958	374	61	2.00	9,602.30	149	1.60%
Marquette	1,289	5,777	166	21	5.00	8,382.10	136.6	1.60%
Menominee	791	3,752	2	11	0.00	18,051.10	251	1.40%
Milwaukee	96,170	440,327	8,545	1,180	35.00	10,182.30	124.9	1.20%
Monroe	4,159	17,670	84	30	1.00	9,041.70	65.2	0.70%
Oconto	4,195	15,858	422	47	7.00	11,050.50	123.8	1.10%
Oneida	3,259	14,119	131	62	4.00	9,074.70	172.6	1.90%
Outagamie	18,708	79,047	2,184	185	7.00	10,178.50	100.7	1.00%
Ozaukee	7,452	38,223	868	72	6.00	8,433.70	81.5	1.00%
Pepin	784	2,903	20	7	0.00	10,668.10	95.3	0.90%
Pierce	3,379	15,657	848	33	6.00	8,115.80	79.3	1.00%
Polk	3,689	17,886	61	42	0.00	8,403.20	95.7	1.10%
Portage	6,282	25,310	489	60	4.00	8,883.00	84.8	1.00%
Price	1,121	5,198	93	7	0.00	8,118.50	50.7	0.60%
Racine	20,003	95,500	2,514	302	28.00	10,247.30	154.7	1.50%
Richland	1,246	8,077	35	13	0.00	7,034.80	73.4	1.00%
Rock	13,987	69,752	1,481	148	13.00	8,727.40	92.3	1.10%
Rusk	1,234	4,673	40	16	1.00	8,490.40	110.1	1.30%
Sauk	5,141	33,658	236	37	6.00	8,201.20	59	0.70%
Sawyer	1,440	7,803	31	17	0.00	8,690.90	102.6	1.20%
Shawano	4,535	16,347	482	69	11.00	10,991.30	167.2	1.50%
Sheboygan	12,547	43,751	692	125	7.00	10,956.60	109.2	1.00%
St. Croix	6,206	33,021	1,547	41	4.00	7,038.80	46.5	0.70%
Taylor	1,766	5,511	211	20	9.00	8,581.10	97.2	1.10%
Trempealeau	3,316	11,404	88	36	2.00	11,305.10	122.7	1.10%
Vernon	1,776	12,226	62	35	3.00	5,863.90	115.6	2.00%
Vilas	2,022	8,144	112	32	2.00	9,336.90	147.8	1.60%
Walworth	8,697	39,041	2,304	122	16.00	8,475.40	118.9	1.40%
Washburn	1,253	6,060	70	18	2.00	7,903.90	113.5	1.40%
Washington	13,438	50,233	1,705	125	8.00	9,992.10	92.9	0.90%
Waukesha	39,602	161,520	3,964	457	41.00	9,934.20	114.6	1.20%
Waupaca	4,670	18,946	860	108	40.00	9,027.50	208.8	2.30%
Waushara	2,060	10,329	285	28	3.00	8,478.10	115.2	1.40%
Winnebago	16,691	75,347	2,564	175	19.00	9,856.30	103.3	1.00%
Wood	6,523	29,043	420	68	12.00	8,811.80	91.9	1.00%