539 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 539 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 3,826 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,820, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 4th. The seven-day testing total stands at 35,701, 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 10.70%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.95%. 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 267 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 4 from the day prior and a decrease of 88 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 686.

The state reported 57 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,279 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 386 in the past week.

DHS reported 18 new deaths. A total of 6,458 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,244 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 18.70, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 34.23.

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 12,826.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,813.2). Jackson, Barron, Kewaunee, Fond du Lac, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Oconto, Shawano, Juneau, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,418.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,409.9).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,775.6 (up from 9,766.3).

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	1,583	7,770	163	10	5	7,723.8	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,174	6,794	67	16	0	7,400.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,393	18,790	149	76	0	11,754.6	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,066	6,669	75	19	0	7,011.3	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,251	127,321	2,497	224	28	11,620.3	86.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,320	5,222	33	7	0	9,771.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,208	5,989	138	23	0	7,820.3	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,484	20,577	550	43	4	10,653.5	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,057	28,527	180	93	2	10,988.8	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,158	10,370	388	57	4	9,090.1	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,052	26,587	378	53	11	8,843.3	92.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,667	7,401	53	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,641	322,293	1,591	273	23	7,689.9	51.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,442	40,167	775	155	21	12,826.6	173.8	1.4%
Door	2,423	13,779	197	20	5	8,637.8	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,640	18,418	607	26	15	8,296.5	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,276	18,212	332	28	0	9,549.5	62.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,033	48,406	301	105	10	10,722.8	102.0	1.0%
Florence	434	1,579	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,019	43,951	1,072	96	8	11,626.8	92.9	0.8%
Forest	924	4,173	69	23	3	10,063.2	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,660	22,818	692	81	5	8,897.5	154.7	1.7%
Green	3,170	16,269	110	16	6	8,599.2	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,519	7,591	427	18	3	7,957.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,863	10,794	88	10	1	7,828.1	42.0	0.5%
Iron	546	2,493	117	21	19	9,342.9	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,580	9,260	40	23	0	12,497.6	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,882	34,912	952	111	14	9,308.5	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,995	14,460	88	19	1	11,130.5	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,876	71,522	2,141	300	15	8,842.6	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,414	7,180	171	28	1	11,693.5	135.6	1.2%
La Crosse	12,268	53,183	657	80	0	10,367.4	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,459	6,337	154	7	1	8,641.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,934	6,868	158	32	12	9,779.0	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,915	10,420	193	58	17	10,248.9	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,246	29,616	1,132	63	18	9,028.8	78.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,668	49,396	1,395	181	33	10,143.9	134.3	1.3%
Marinette	3,962	18,071	404	63	3	9,678.0	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	6,007	180	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,756	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,398	457,928	8,906	1,244	39	10,418.2	131.7	1.3%
Monroe	4,325	18,381	93	31	1	9,402.6	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,271	16,406	448	48	7	11,250.7	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,396	14,591	137	69	4	9,456.2	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,316	83,548	2,371	197	12	10,509.2	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,636	39,916	909	78	6	8,641.9	88.3	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,004	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,488	16,171	889	33	6	8,377.6	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,936	18,673	67	44	0	8,965.8	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,483	26,164	523	64	3	9,167.3	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,162	5,389	97	7	0	8,415.4	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,389	97,793	2,607	323	29	10,445.0	165.5	1.6%
Richland	1,288	7,958	34	15	0	7,271.9	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,431	72,978	1,534	159	14	9,004.5	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,257	4,847	40	16	1	8,648.7	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,297	34,391	240	42	6	8,450.1	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,521	8,131	34	21	0	9,179.8	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,596	16,898	503	70	11	11,139.1	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,930	46,014	767	131	8	11,291.1	114.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,415	34,455	1,614	43	4	7,275.8	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,784	5,732	229	21	9	8,668.6	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,400	11,833	93	37	2	11,591.4	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,833	12,536	64	37	3	6,052.1	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,144	8,567	126	36	2	9,900.3	166.2	1.7%
Walworth	8,859	40,388	2,400	129	19	8,633.2	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,296	6,326	77	18	2	8,175.1	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,791	52,395	1,781	135	8	10,254.6	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,763	169,033	4,174	484	43	10,225.5	121.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,774	19,995	913	112	42	9,228.5	216.5	2.3%
Waushara	2,099	10,639	307	31	3	8,638.6	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,074	79,562	2,734	183	21	10,082.4	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,669	30,409	476	74	13	9,009.0	100.0	1.1%