274 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 274 new COVID-19 cases Sunday from 3,822 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,945, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 24,635, 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 11.95%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.72%. 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 212 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 14 from the day prior and a decrease of 37 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 461.

The state reported 17 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 26,791 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 334 in the past week.

DHS reported -2 deaths. DHS noted in a tweet that, “The net decrease in deaths reflects corrections made from previous reports.” A total of 6,536 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,248 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 12.83, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 30.10.

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 12,895.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,893.9). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet, Outagamie and Racine are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,484.7 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,477.2).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,853.5 (up from 9,848.8).

The City of Milwaukee’s stop-light-colored gating criteria indicates that, as of March 11th, the city has three green indicators and two yellow indicators. The criteria, according to city officials, are used to determine how to ease or tighten the city’s COVID-19 health order.

The city has green indicators for new cases, testing and care. It has yellow indicators for the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) in area hospitals and contact tracing performance.

The cases metric is a measure of the positive case rate. The city’s rate is on a upward trajectory and has been under 5% for at least 14 days. The testing metric shows an average of 1,745 tests per day over the past two weeks, with a 3.3% positive rate. The care metric shows that 3% of county hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 positive patients.

The countywide PPE availability measure is given a yellow indicator without supporting data. The contacting metric shows that the city has successfully reached with 76.5% of individuals testing positive within two days.

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	1,606	7,898	163	10	5	7,836.1	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,183	6,894	72	16	0	7,457.6	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,469	19,027	157	76	0	11,920.2	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,062	6,776	85	19	0	6,985.0	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,389	128,891	2,789	226	34	11,673.3	86.8	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,287	33	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,219	6,075	140	23	0	7,891.5	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,512	20,935	583	43	4	10,707.9	83.5	0.8%
Chippewa	7,116	28,876	183	93	2	11,080.7	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,161	10,548	392	59	4	9,098.8	169.8	1.9%
Columbia	5,102	26,839	378	54	12	8,930.8	94.5	1.1%
Crawford	1,669	7,424	52	17	0	10,081.5	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,310	326,123	1,508	280	23	7,816.5	53.0	0.7%
Dodge	11,503	40,704	792	159	22	12,895.0	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,442	13,945	201	20	5	8,705.6	71.3	0.8%
Douglas	3,676	18,733	612	28	16	8,378.5	63.8	0.8%
Dunn	4,297	18,479	350	30	0	9,596.4	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,092	49,079	347	106	11	10,780.1	103.0	1.0%
Florence	423	1,590	49	12	0	9,568.0	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	11,995	44,516	1,163	98	8	11,603.6	94.8	0.8%
Forest	928	4,226	73	23	3	10,106.7	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,693	23,086	696	82	5	8,960.6	156.6	1.7%
Green	3,245	16,543	110	17	6	8,802.6	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,525	7,719	429	18	3	7,989.3	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,912	10,948	89	10	1	8,034.0	42.0	0.5%
Iron	555	2,532	119	21	19	9,496.9	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,585	9,311	44	27	0	12,521.8	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,957	35,335	974	110	16	9,397.1	129.9	1.4%
Juneau	3,017	14,475	103	19	1	11,212.3	70.6	0.6%
Kenosha	14,895	72,378	2,309	303	15	8,853.9	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,386	7,331	213	24	6	11,557.8	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,297	54,015	747	80	0	10,391.9	67.6	0.7%
Lafayette	1,480	6,424	155	6	1	8,766.2	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,939	6,995	160	32	12	9,804.3	161.8	1.7%
Lincoln	2,927	10,560	193	58	17	10,291.1	203.9	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,291	29,950	1,148	66	17	9,084.9	82.2	0.9%
Marathon	13,756	50,248	1,429	183	34	10,209.2	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,981	18,319	404	64	3	9,724.5	156.3	1.6%
Marquette	1,321	6,079	181	21	5	8,590.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,710	2	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,026	463,718	9,192	1,248	41	10,484.7	132.1	1.3%
Monroe	4,353	18,614	94	34	1	9,463.5	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,303	16,649	455	48	7	11,335.0	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,435	14,763	142	69	4	9,564.8	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,586	85,287	2,491	197	12	10,656.1	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,718	40,584	929	80	6	8,734.7	90.5	1.0%
Pepin	808	3,035	23	7	0	10,994.7	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,539	16,408	894	33	6	8,500.1	79.3	0.9%
Polk	3,999	19,061	74	47	1	9,109.3	107.1	1.2%
Portage	6,521	26,559	529	64	3	9,221.0	90.5	1.0%
Price	1,174	5,471	97	7	0	8,502.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,481	97,718	2,683	325	30	10,492.2	166.5	1.6%
Richland	1,295	7,987	34	15	0	7,311.4	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,564	73,841	1,544	162	14	9,087.4	101.1	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	4,935	41	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,372	34,662	253	43	6	8,569.7	68.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,542	8,256	37	22	0	9,306.5	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,620	17,089	513	70	11	11,197.3	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,060	46,711	788	132	9	11,404.6	115.3	1.0%
St. Croix	6,549	35,212	1,621	49	5	7,427.8	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,783	5,802	245	21	9	8,663.8	102.0	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,414	11,991	96	37	3	11,639.2	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,855	12,494	63	38	3	6,124.7	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,176	8,707	127	38	2	10,048.0	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,920	40,865	2,445	132	19	8,692.7	128.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,317	6,448	73	18	2	8,307.6	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,913	53,313	1,806	137	10	10,345.3	101.9	1.0%
Waukesha	41,183	171,975	4,273	490	45	10,330.8	122.9	1.2%
Waupaca	4,783	20,309	970	114	43	9,245.9	220.4	2.4%
Waushara	2,116	10,746	300	32	3	8,708.5	131.7	1.5%
Winnebago	17,221	80,604	2,783	184	21	10,169.2	108.7	1.1%
Wood	6,705	30,917	479	76	13	9,057.6	102.7	1.1%