563 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 563 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday from 17,539 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,296, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 41,974, 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 7.85%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 10.14%. 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 233 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 17 from the day prior and a decrease of 15 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 287.

The state reported 67 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,598 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 344 in the past week.

DHS reported 10 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,622 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,260 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.00, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 17.30.

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 18,005.5 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 12,956.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,954.4). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Pepin, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,664.3 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,652.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,984.3 (up from 9,974.5).

The City of Milwaukee revised its gating criteria on March 26th 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 26th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (68.3) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (50-99 is substantial transmission).

The city has low transmission based on the positive test rate (3.8%). 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 10.4%. 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	1,626	8,062	168	10	5	7,933.6	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,200	7,031	74	16	0	7,564.8	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,524	19,362	155	76	0	12,040.1	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,079	6,887	99	19	0	7,096.8	125.0	1.8%
Brown	30,695	131,167	3,117	232	39	11,790.8	89.1	0.8%
Buffalo	1,327	5,365	34	7	0	9,823.1	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,232	6,046	140	22	1	7,975.7	142.4	1.8%
Calumet	5,601	21,445	612	46	4	10,880.8	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,183	29,289	187	93	2	11,185.0	144.8	1.3%
Clark	3,168	10,845	394	58	4	9,118.9	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,176	27,192	381	56	12	9,060.4	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,491	54	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,069	330,783	1,442	288	23	7,960.1	54.5	0.7%
Dodge	11,558	41,329	855	159	24	12,956.7	178.2	1.4%
Door	2,522	14,213	211	21	5	8,990.8	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,750	19,144	648	30	17	8,547.2	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,394	18,898	371	30	0	9,813.1	67.0	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,247	49,814	338	105	12	10,930.8	102.0	0.9%
Florence	430	1,609	50	12	0	9,726.3	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,082	45,406	1,189	104	8	11,687.8	100.6	0.9%
Forest	936	4,325	71	23	3	10,193.9	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,737	23,373	724	83	5	9,044.6	158.5	1.8%
Green	3,364	16,859	114	16	6	9,125.4	43.4	0.5%
Green Lake	1,536	7,871	432	18	3	8,046.9	94.3	1.2%
Iowa	1,952	11,145	89	11	1	8,202.0	46.2	0.6%
Iron	567	2,579	118	21	19	9,702.3	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,579	9,433	59	26	2	12,492.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,047	35,997	1,094	105	21	9,503.4	124.0	1.3%
Juneau	3,038	14,494	110	21	2	11,290.3	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	14,974	73,783	2,494	304	15	8,900.9	180.7	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,304	7,489	307	24	6	11,160.6	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,412	55,296	772	80	0	10,489.0	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,499	6,572	155	6	1	8,878.8	35.5	0.4%
Langlade	1,943	7,140	161	32	13	9,824.5	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,947	10,782	212	60	27	10,361.4	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,359	30,732	1,167	68	18	9,169.6	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,886	51,422	1,449	184	34	10,305.7	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,001	18,660	411	65	3	9,773.3	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,328	6,205	181	21	6	8,635.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	789	3,762	8	11	0	18,005.5	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	100,722	484,980	9,564	1,260	43	10,664.3	133.4	1.3%
Monroe	4,378	19,012	107	34	1	9,517.8	73.9	0.8%
Oconto	4,314	17,003	484	49	7	11,364.0	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,502	15,003	145	69	5	9,751.3	192.1	2.0%
Outagamie	19,884	87,604	2,685	199	16	10,818.3	108.3	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,854	41,621	958	81	7	8,888.6	91.7	1.0%
Pepin	817	3,093	24	7	0	11,117.2	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,621	16,837	926	35	6	8,697.0	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,029	19,485	104	44	4	9,177.7	100.2	1.1%
Portage	6,542	27,006	545	66	3	9,250.7	93.3	1.0%
Price	1,175	5,578	97	7	0	8,509.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,673	97,921	2,817	336	27	10,590.5	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,272	8,040	67	15	0	7,181.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,782	75,143	1,664	164	18	9,223.5	102.3	1.1%
Rusk	1,273	5,065	51	16	1	8,758.8	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,483	34,839	269	44	6	8,746.8	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,571	8,325	41	23	1	9,481.6	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,607	17,412	571	69	12	11,165.8	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,264	47,558	845	133	9	11,582.8	116.1	1.0%
St. Croix	6,775	36,166	1,644	47	7	7,684.1	53.3	0.7%
Taylor	1,810	5,933	241	23	9	8,794.9	111.8	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,460	12,309	104	38	3	11,796.0	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,875	12,604	65	38	3	6,190.8	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,193	8,930	142	39	2	10,126.5	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,043	41,556	2,591	135	20	8,812.6	131.6	1.5%
Washburn	1,354	6,520	76	18	2	8,541.0	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,065	54,818	1,936	141	10	10,458.3	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,031	176,962	4,604	501	48	10,543.5	125.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,758	20,739	1,079	116	44	9,197.6	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,111	10,893	323	31	4	8,688.0	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,471	82,159	2,948	187	21	10,316.9	110.4	1.1%
Wood	6,748	31,963	482	77	13	9,115.7	104.0	1.1%