677 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 677 new COVID-19 cases Thursday from 4,826 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,657, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since July 3rd. The seven-day testing total stands at 27,350, 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 13.37%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.00%. 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 262 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 5 from the day prior and a decrease of 69 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 657.

The state reported 51 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,330 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 376 in the past week.

DHS reported 12 new deaths. A total of 6,470 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 17.97, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 35.40.

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 12,830.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,826.6). 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, 10,426.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,418.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,787.3 (up from 9,775.6).

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	1,585	7,775	165	10	5	7,733.6	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,174	6,801	67	16	0	7,400.9	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,401	18,834	149	76	0	11,772.0	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,067	6,677	75	19	0	7,017.9	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,301	127,523	2,505	225	28	11,639.5	86.4	0.7%
Buffalo	1,320	5,232	33	7	0	9,771.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,209	5,995	138	23	0	7,826.8	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,488	20,629	553	43	4	10,661.3	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,065	28,569	181	93	2	11,001.2	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,159	10,397	388	57	4	9,093.0	164.1	1.8%
Columbia	5,057	26,607	379	54	11	8,852.1	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,667	7,416	53	17	0	10,069.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	40,763	322,804	1,583	278	23	7,713.0	52.6	0.7%
Dodge	11,445	40,203	774	156	21	12,830.0	174.9	1.4%
Door	2,427	13,796	197	20	5	8,652.1	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,645	18,460	606	26	15	8,307.9	59.3	0.7%
Dunn	4,283	18,236	333	29	0	9,565.2	64.8	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,058	48,511	299	105	10	10,747.1	102.0	0.9%
Florence	434	1,584	34	12	0	9,816.8	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,026	44,024	1,072	96	8	11,633.6	92.9	0.8%
Forest	925	4,182	69	23	3	10,074.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,661	22,825	692	81	5	8,899.5	154.7	1.7%
Green	3,178	16,299	110	16	6	8,620.9	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,521	7,614	427	18	3	7,968.4	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,866	10,811	88	10	1	7,840.7	42.0	0.5%
Iron	550	2,498	117	21	19	9,411.4	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,262	41	23	0	12,512.1	111.4	0.9%
Jefferson	7,890	34,970	957	111	14	9,318.0	131.1	1.4%
Juneau	2,997	14,463	88	19	1	11,138.0	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,898	71,630	2,143	300	15	8,855.7	178.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,415	7,194	175	28	1	11,698.3	135.6	1.2%
La Crosse	12,277	53,248	658	80	0	10,375.0	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,459	6,349	154	7	1	8,641.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,936	6,885	158	32	12	9,789.1	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,915	10,443	193	58	17	10,248.9	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,250	29,660	1,136	64	18	9,033.8	79.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,661	49,496	1,409	181	33	10,138.7	134.3	1.3%
Marinette	3,966	18,100	404	63	3	9,687.8	153.9	1.6%
Marquette	1,307	6,012	180	21	5	8,499.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,747	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	98,479	458,571	8,929	1,244	39	10,426.8	131.7	1.3%
Monroe	4,333	18,396	94	31	1	9,420.0	67.4	0.7%
Oconto	4,278	16,443	450	48	7	11,269.2	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,403	14,641	137	69	4	9,475.7	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,355	83,767	2,380	197	12	10,530.5	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,648	40,019	910	78	6	8,655.5	88.3	1.0%
Pepin	806	3,009	19	7	0	10,967.5	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,489	16,195	891	33	6	8,380.0	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,947	18,727	67	44	0	8,990.9	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,490	26,207	522	64	3	9,177.2	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,163	5,396	97	7	0	8,422.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,408	97,766	2,611	323	29	10,454.8	165.5	1.6%
Richland	1,289	7,955	34	15	0	7,277.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,445	73,059	1,536	159	14	9,013.2	99.2	1.1%
Rusk	1,258	4,865	40	16	1	8,655.6	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,300	34,418	245	42	6	8,454.8	67.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,520	8,142	37	21	0	9,173.8	126.7	1.4%
Shawano	4,599	16,918	503	70	11	11,146.4	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,947	46,091	772	131	8	11,305.9	114.4	1.0%
St. Croix	6,421	34,527	1,618	43	4	7,282.6	48.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,766	5,740	247	21	9	8,581.1	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,401	11,883	93	37	2	11,594.8	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,835	12,539	64	37	3	6,058.7	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,151	8,590	126	38	2	9,932.6	175.5	1.8%
Walworth	8,869	40,455	2,407	129	19	8,643.0	125.7	1.5%
Washburn	1,298	6,333	74	18	2	8,187.7	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,811	52,516	1,783	135	8	10,269.5	100.4	1.0%
Waukesha	40,829	169,380	4,202	484	43	10,242.0	121.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,763	20,037	934	111	43	9,207.2	214.6	2.3%
Waushara	2,104	10,640	307	32	3	8,659.1	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,101	79,701	2,743	183	21	10,098.4	108.1	1.1%
Wood	6,678	30,461	477	74	13	9,021.2	100.0	1.1%