840 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 840 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 13,177 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,429, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and is comparable to yesterday’s seven-day total. The seven-day testing total stands at 40,044, 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 11.06%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.55%. 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 331 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 24 from a day prior and decrease of 57 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 746.

The state reported 61 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 25,954 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 398 in the past week.

DHS reported 52 new deaths. A total of 6,394 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,229 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 21.37, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 35.37.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 19th worst in the state. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 18,142.4 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,767.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,750.4). Jackson, Kewaunee, Barron, Brown, Fond du Lac, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,373.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,357.6).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,724.0 (up from 9,709.5).

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	1,577	7,686	159	11	4	7,694.6	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,173	6,734	65	16	0	7,394.6	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,327	18,661	147	76	0	11,610.7	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,063	6,619	73	19	0	6,991.6	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,164	126,302	2,374	222	27	11,586.9	85.3	0.7%
Buffalo	1,315	5,213	32	7	0	9,734.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,193	5,950	139	23	0	7,723.2	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,453	20,339	540	43	2	10,593.3	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,021	28,230	181	92	2	10,932.7	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,154	10,280	388	57	4	9,078.6	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,007	26,488	378	51	9	8,764.5	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,669	7,376	48	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,191	320,820	1,573	272	23	7,604.8	51.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,389	39,877	775	155	21	12,767.2	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,411	13,684	195	20	5	8,595.1	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,667	18,191	561	26	14	8,358.0	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,250	18,090	332	28	0	9,491.5	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,977	47,961	301	104	10	10,668.4	101.1	0.9%
Florence	435	1,579	34	12	0	9,839.4	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,939	43,513	1,048	93	8	11,549.4	90.0	0.8%
Forest	924	4,149	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,630	22,667	693	80	5	8,840.3	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,110	16,090	109	16	6	8,436.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,524	7,525	418	18	3	7,984.1	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,852	10,691	87	9	1	7,781.8	37.8	0.5%
Iron	537	2,469	117	20	19	9,188.9	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,578	9,206	40	23	0	12,487.9	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,854	34,742	947	111	14	9,275.5	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,979	14,482	85	19	1	11,071.1	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,787	71,036	2,113	300	16	8,789.7	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,413	7,117	165	27	1	11,688.6	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,170	52,510	653	78	0	10,284.5	65.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,456	6,285	148	7	1	8,624.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,932	6,815	156	31	12	9,768.9	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,900	10,312	189	58	17	10,196.2	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,226	29,433	1,120	63	17	9,003.9	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,635	48,962	1,341	176	33	10,119.4	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,977	17,938	380	63	3	9,714.7	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,300	5,971	178	21	5	8,453.6	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,762	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	97,976	454,099	8,818	1,229	37	10,373.5	130.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,304	18,232	89	31	1	9,356.9	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,255	16,282	444	48	7	11,208.6	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,354	14,466	134	67	4	9,339.2	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,182	82,593	2,306	194	11	10,436.3	105.5	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,609	39,630	890	77	6	8,611.4	87.1	1.0%
Pepin	806	2,999	20	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,458	16,053	886	33	6	8,305.5	79.3	1.0%
Polk	3,893	18,502	66	44	0	8,867.9	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,458	26,149	517	64	3	9,131.9	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,153	5,348	97	7	0	8,350.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,300	97,846	2,579	320	29	10,399.4	163.9	1.6%
Richland	1,285	8,062	34	14	0	7,255.0	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,355	72,257	1,540	157	14	8,957.0	98.0	1.1%
Rusk	1,249	4,800	40	16	1	8,593.6	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,258	34,240	238	39	6	8,387.8	62.2	0.7%
Sawyer	1,506	8,086	33	21	0	9,089.3	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,589	16,786	499	70	11	11,122.2	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,847	45,603	754	128	8	11,218.6	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,353	34,165	1,611	43	4	7,205.5	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,797	5,678	211	21	9	8,731.8	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,379	11,750	92	36	2	11,519.8	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,822	12,525	64	36	3	6,015.8	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,117	8,450	124	36	2	9,775.6	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,815	40,126	2,372	126	19	8,590.4	122.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,291	6,285	72	18	2	8,143.6	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,709	51,915	1,756	133	8	10,193.6	98.9	1.0%
Waukesha	40,504	167,384	4,133	482	43	10,160.5	120.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,770	19,732	878	112	42	9,220.8	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,099	10,592	305	31	3	8,638.6	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,022	78,949	2,680	183	21	10,051.7	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,682	30,116	439	73	12	9,026.6	98.6	1.1%