308 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 308 new COVID-19 cases Monday from 3,314 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,270, 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 38,278, 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 11.16%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.23%. 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 287 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 3 from the day prior and a decrease of 59 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 657.

The state reported 31 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,158 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 383 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 17.30, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.47.

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 12,798.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,791.9). Jackson, Barron, Kewaunee, Brown, Fond du Lac, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,403.5 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,399.0).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,760.6 (up from 9,755.3).

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	1,581	7,748	162	10	5	7,714.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,174	6,790	67	16	0	7,400.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,367	18,751	147	76	0	11,697.9	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,066	6,658	74	19	0	7,011.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,192	126,938	2,449	223	27	11,597.6	85.7	0.7%
Buffalo	1,319	5,228	33	7	0	9,763.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,206	5,977	137	23	0	7,807.3	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,473	20,493	545	43	3	10,632.1	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,044	28,406	181	92	2	10,968.5	143.3	1.3%
Clark	3,155	10,331	388	57	4	9,081.5	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,042	26,582	379	51	9	8,825.8	89.3	1.0%
Crawford	1,668	7,395	50	17	0	10,075.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,571	322,133	1,586	273	23	7,676.7	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,417	40,101	773	155	21	12,798.6	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,418	13,749	195	20	5	8,620.0	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,675	18,372	563	26	14	8,376.3	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,264	18,179	330	28	0	9,522.7	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,009	48,206	300	104	10	10,699.5	101.1	0.9%
Florence	434	1,580	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,984	43,883	1,064	93	8	11,593.0	90.0	0.8%
Forest	925	4,167	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,651	22,788	690	80	5	8,880.4	152.7	1.7%
Green	3,147	16,210	110	16	6	8,536.8	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,575	419	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,858	10,758	87	9	1	7,807.1	37.8	0.5%
Iron	541	2,479	117	20	19	9,257.4	342.2	3.7%
Jackson	2,575	9,253	40	23	0	12,473.4	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,877	34,865	949	111	14	9,302.6	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,984	14,496	86	19	1	11,089.6	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,824	71,394	2,132	300	15	8,811.7	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,164	167	27	1	11,693.5	130.8	1.1%
La Crosse	12,232	52,957	654	78	0	10,336.9	65.9	0.6%
Lafayette	1,463	6,316	148	7	1	8,665.5	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,846	156	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,909	10,391	193	58	17	10,227.8	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,239	29,584	1,124	64	17	9,020.1	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,692	49,225	1,345	176	33	10,161.7	130.6	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,047	383	63	3	9,724.5	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	6,000	179	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,765	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,259	456,760	8,853	1,237	37	10,403.5	131.0	1.3%
Monroe	4,318	18,318	93	31	1	9,387.4	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,263	16,377	446	48	7	11,229.7	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,381	14,567	136	67	4	9,414.4	186.6	2.0%
Outagamie	19,287	83,284	2,343	195	12	10,493.5	106.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,633	39,824	895	77	6	8,638.5	87.1	1.0%
Pepin	806	2,998	20	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,477	16,140	890	33	6	8,351.1	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,927	18,625	67	44	0	8,945.3	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,477	26,177	523	64	3	9,158.8	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,157	5,369	97	7	0	8,379.2	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,347	97,903	2,593	320	29	10,423.5	163.9	1.6%
Richland	1,288	8,072	34	14	0	7,271.9	79.0	1.1%
Rock	14,405	72,711	1,536	159	14	8,988.2	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,253	4,827	40	16	1	8,621.2	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,287	34,395	240	41	6	8,434.1	65.4	0.8%
Sawyer	1,517	8,117	34	21	0	9,155.7	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,593	16,874	501	70	11	11,131.8	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,914	45,890	762	128	8	11,277.1	111.8	1.0%
St. Croix	6,394	34,374	1,617	43	4	7,252.0	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,800	5,713	213	21	9	8,746.4	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,393	11,811	92	36	2	11,567.6	122.7	1.1%
Vernon	1,831	12,542	64	36	3	6,045.5	118.9	2.0%
Vilas	2,140	8,529	123	36	2	9,881.8	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,837	40,289	2,385	127	19	8,611.8	123.8	1.4%
Washburn	1,295	6,319	72	18	2	8,168.8	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,753	52,249	1,767	134	8	10,226.3	99.6	1.0%
Waukesha	40,653	168,457	4,160	482	43	10,197.9	120.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,792	19,939	884	112	42	9,263.3	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,098	10,641	305	31	3	8,634.5	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,060	79,444	2,701	183	21	10,074.2	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,701	30,307	439	73	12	9,052.2	98.6	1.1%