464 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 464 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 3,762 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,385, 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 38,818, 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 11.30%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.20%. 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 290 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 14 from the day prior and a decrease of 57 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 678.

The state reported 39 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,127 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 384 in the past week.

DHS reported no new deaths. A total of 6,412 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,237 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 18.40, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.73.

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 12,791.9 cases per 100,000 residents. 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, 10,399.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,391.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,755.3 (up from 9,747.3).

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	1,578	7,730	161	10	5	7,699.4	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,175	6,776	66	16	0	7,407.2	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,362	18,735	147	76	0	11,687.0	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,065	6,643	74	19	0	7,004.7	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,188	126,797	2,449	223	27	11,596.1	85.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,319	5,223	33	7	0	9,763.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,205	5,976	137	23	0	7,800.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,470	20,474	544	43	3	10,626.3	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,043	28,379	181	92	2	10,967.0	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,155	10,320	388	57	4	9,081.5	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,031	26,555	379	51	9	8,806.5	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,668	7,390	50	17	0	10,075.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,517	321,795	1,583	273	23	7,666.5	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,411	40,065	773	155	21	12,791.9	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,418	13,739	195	20	5	8,620.0	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,674	18,358	562	26	14	8,374.0	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,262	18,174	330	28	0	9,518.3	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,009	48,185	300	104	10	10,699.5	101.1	0.9%
Florence	434	1,576	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,982	43,833	1,064	93	8	11,591.0	90.0	0.8%
Forest	925	4,162	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,648	22,765	690	80	5	8,874.6	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,147	16,197	110	16	6	8,536.8	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,570	419	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,853	10,744	87	9	1	7,786.0	37.8	0.5%
Iron	541	2,481	117	20	19	9,257.4	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,575	9,248	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,870	34,834	949	111	14	9,294.4	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,982	14,494	86	19	1	11,082.2	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,823	71,312	2,133	300	15	8,811.1	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,156	166	27	1	11,693.5	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,230	52,899	655	78	0	10,335.2	65.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,463	6,313	148	7	1	8,665.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,836	156	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,909	10,368	193	58	17	10,227.8	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,239	29,542	1,124	64	17	9,020.1	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,681	49,177	1,344	176	33	10,153.6	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,021	383	63	3	9,724.5	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	5,996	179	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,774	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,216	456,154	8,853	1,237	37	10,399.0	131.0	1.3%
Monroe	4,318	18,316	93	31	1	9,387.4	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,263	16,353	446	48	7	11,229.7	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,378	14,552	136	67	4	9,406.1	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,271	83,161	2,339	195	12	10,484.8	106.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,629	39,772	895	77	6	8,634.0	87.1	1.0%
Pepin	807	2,998	19	7	0	10,981.1	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,476	16,135	890	33	6	8,348.7	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,923	18,604	67	44	0	8,936.2	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,477	26,152	523	64	3	9,158.8	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,157	5,367	97	7	0	8,379.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,347	97,862	2,593	320	29	10,423.5	163.9	1.6%
Richland	1,287	8,068	34	14	0	7,266.3	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,402	72,636	1,535	159	14	8,986.4	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,253	4,824	40	16	1	8,621.2	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,285	34,365	239	41	6	8,430.9	65.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,514	8,111	34	21	0	9,137.5	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,593	16,861	501	70	11	11,131.8	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,896	45,821	760	128	8	11,261.4	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,381	34,336	1,615	43	4	7,237.2	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,799	5,706	213	21	9	8,741.5	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,386	11,800	92	36	2	11,543.7	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,831	12,546	64	36	3	6,045.5	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,136	8,512	124	36	2	9,863.3	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,837	40,240	2,385	127	19	8,611.8	123.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,295	6,310	70	18	2	8,168.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,746	52,187	1,767	134	8	10,221.1	99.6	1.0%
Waukesha	40,625	168,215	4,159	482	43	10,190.8	120.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,782	19,930	888	112	42	9,244.0	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,098	10,640	305	31	3	8,634.5	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,046	79,376	2,692	183	21	10,065.9	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,698	30,274	439	73	12	9,048.2	98.6	1.1%