402 New COVID-19 Cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 402 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 2,672 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 2,648, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since June 26th. The seven-day testing total stands at 18,701, 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 14.16%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 13.02%. 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 200 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an decrease of 13 from the day prior and a decrease of 26 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 388.

The state reported 48 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,072 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 298 in the past week.

DHS reported 14 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,576 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,249 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 11.47, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 24.00.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 18th 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 (up from 18,119.6). Dodge County has recorded 12,920.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,906.2). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,533.2 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 10,526.5).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,894.6 (up from 9,887.6).

The City of Milwaukee revised its gating criteria on March 18th in accordance with its new health order. The three criteria are intended to guide what phase of the health order the city should progress to, either loosening or tightening restrictions.

The five-level scale measures range from blue (good, low transmission) to purple (bad, extreme transmission).

The data, last updated March 18th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a moderate transmission level (45.8) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (10-49 is moderate transmission).

The city has low transmission based on the positive test rate (2.4%). Low transmission is defined as less than 5%.

The adult vaccination rate (which the city defines as any individual over the age of 15 completing the dose course for any COVID-19 rate) stands at 8.5%. The low transmission target is 80% and the city has not defined the lower benchmark thresholds.

The city is no longer using hospital bed usage, contact tracing or personal protective equipment supply to guide its COVID-19 health order.

The city is currently in phase six of its health order. According to a chart produced by the health department, the city would enter phase 7 when all three criteria reach the low transmission benchmarks.

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	1,609	7,920	164	10	5	7,850.7	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,188	6,879	73	16	0	7,489.1	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,493	19,163	156	76	0	11,972.5	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,065	6,793	90	19	0	7,004.7	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,528	129,609	2,919	227	34	11,726.7	87.2	0.7%
Buffalo	1,323	5,290	34	7	0	9,793.5	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,224	6,091	139	23	0	7,923.9	148.9	1.9%
Calumet	5,546	21,074	591	46	4	10,774.0	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,149	28,987	186	93	2	11,132.0	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,161	10,642	393	58	4	9,098.8	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,132	26,885	379	55	12	8,983.3	96.3	1.1%
Crawford	1,671	7,438	53	17	0	10,093.6	102.7	1.0%
Dane	41,555	327,317	1,519	288	23	7,862.9	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,526	40,803	814	158	24	12,920.8	177.1	1.4%
Door	2,464	14,013	207	21	5	8,784.0	74.9	0.9%
Douglas	3,700	18,818	616	29	16	8,433.2	66.1	0.8%
Dunn	4,319	18,595	355	30	0	9,645.6	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,156	49,307	336	105	11	10,842.3	102.0	0.9%
Florence	425	1,595	49	12	0	9,613.2	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,029	44,737	1,176	101	8	11,636.5	97.7	0.8%
Forest	934	4,270	72	23	3	10,172.1	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,709	23,098	699	83	5	8,991.1	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,272	16,602	112	16	6	8,875.9	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,526	7,742	432	18	3	7,994.6	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,934	10,999	89	10	1	8,126.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	558	2,545	119	21	19	9,548.3	359.3	3.8%
Jackson	2,583	9,363	50	27	0	12,512.1	130.8	1.0%
Jefferson	7,982	35,462	1,019	106	20	9,426.6	125.2	1.3%
Juneau	3,031	14,404	106	20	2	11,264.3	74.3	0.7%
Kenosha	14,883	72,769	2,418	304	15	8,846.8	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,353	7,379	248	24	6	11,398.0	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,336	54,373	758	80	0	10,424.8	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,484	6,460	156	6	1	8,789.9	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,941	7,036	159	32	12	9,814.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,929	10,616	201	60	18	10,298.2	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,314	30,194	1,159	67	17	9,113.6	83.5	0.9%
Marathon	13,809	50,647	1,441	183	34	10,248.6	135.8	1.3%
Marinette	3,986	18,389	408	65	3	9,736.7	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,323	6,109	180	21	6	8,603.2	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	795	3,668	3	11	0	18,142.4	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	99,484	465,982	9,326	1,249	43	10,533.2	132.2	1.3%
Monroe	4,362	18,721	96	34	1	9,483.0	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,311	16,755	464	48	7	11,356.1	126.4	1.1%
Oneida	3,453	14,807	146	68	5	9,614.9	189.3	2.0%
Outagamie	19,680	85,995	2,577	197	15	10,707.3	107.2	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,770	40,909	948	81	7	8,793.6	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	814	3,047	23	7	0	11,076.3	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,580	16,527	898	35	6	8,598.5	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,010	19,179	86	45	3	9,134.4	102.5	1.1%
Portage	6,524	26,696	538	66	3	9,225.2	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,173	5,498	97	7	0	8,495.1	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,520	96,980	2,725	331	30	10,512.1	169.6	1.6%
Richland	1,291	7,955	42	15	0	7,288.8	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,598	74,182	1,586	164	15	9,108.7	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,279	4,981	42	16	1	8,800.1	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,404	34,625	261	44	6	8,620.7	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,547	8,278	39	22	0	9,336.7	132.8	1.4%
Shawano	4,620	17,176	542	69	12	11,197.3	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,148	46,950	804	133	9	11,481.5	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,604	35,505	1,632	47	7	7,490.2	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,793	5,833	244	22	9	8,712.3	106.9	1.2%
Trempealeau	3,422	12,081	99	37	3	11,666.4	126.1	1.1%
Vernon	1,859	12,465	63	37	3	6,137.9	122.2	2.0%
Vilas	2,179	8,768	135	38	2	10,061.9	175.5	1.7%
Walworth	8,949	40,988	2,501	133	20	8,720.9	129.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,331	6,492	73	18	2	8,395.9	113.5	1.4%
Washington	13,953	53,781	1,850	139	10	10,375.1	103.4	1.0%
Waukesha	41,496	173,453	4,386	496	45	10,409.3	124.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,757	20,447	1,039	116	43	9,195.6	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,117	10,747	310	31	4	8,712.7	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,321	81,050	2,826	186	21	10,228.3	109.8	1.1%
Wood	6,718	31,125	481	77	13	9,075.2	104.0	1.1%