886 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 886 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,308 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,438, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 40,976, 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 10.83%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 11.08%. 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 275 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 34 from the day prior and an increase of 25 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 249.

The state reported 72 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 27,869 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 338 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,648 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,264 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.57, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 15.37.

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 18,028.3 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,005.5). Dodge County has recorded 12,988.1 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,976.9). Jackson, Barron, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Oconto, Juneau, Shawano, Chippewa, Pepin, Kewaunee, Eau Claire, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 10,751.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 10,738.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,051.3.

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 April 1st and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (97.9) 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 (4.9%). 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 vaccine) stands at 13.1%. 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	1,646	8,149	171	10	5	8,031.2	48.8	0.6%
Ashland	1,209	7,126	80	16	0	7,621.5	100.9	1.3%
Barron	5,556	19,493	155	76	0	12,109.9	165.6	1.4%
Bayfield	1,095	6,960	105	19	0	7,202.1	125.0	1.7%
Brown	30,831	131,991	3,172	233	39	11,843.1	89.5	0.8%
Buffalo	1,330	5,407	33	7	0	9,845.3	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,246	6,092	137	21	1	8,066.3	135.9	1.7%
Calumet	5,630	21,607	631	46	4	10,937.1	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,197	29,475	191	94	2	11,206.8	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,173	10,926	395	58	4	9,133.3	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,214	27,336	384	56	12	9,126.9	98.0	1.1%
Crawford	1,677	7,531	57	17	0	10,129.9	102.7	1.0%
Dane	42,515	332,992	1,447	289	23	8,044.5	54.7	0.7%
Dodge	11,586	41,562	865	161	21	12,988.1	180.5	1.4%
Door	2,534	14,264	211	21	5	9,033.5	74.9	0.8%
Douglas	3,783	19,314	679	30	17	8,622.4	68.4	0.8%
Dunn	4,442	19,071	383	31	0	9,920.3	69.2	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,296	50,124	339	105	12	10,978.4	102.0	0.9%
Florence	432	1,614	50	12	0	9,771.5	271.4	2.8%
Fond du Lac	12,118	45,718	1,197	105	9	11,722.6	101.6	0.9%
Forest	938	4,360	74	23	3	10,215.6	250.5	2.5%
Grant	4,757	23,579	738	84	5	9,082.8	160.4	1.8%
Green	3,387	16,953	114	17	6	9,187.8	46.1	0.5%
Green Lake	1,548	7,920	429	19	3	8,109.8	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	1,960	11,209	89	10	1	8,235.6	42.0	0.5%
Iron	570	2,590	117	21	19	9,753.6	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,580	9,488	62	26	2	12,497.6	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,115	36,242	1,123	105	22	9,583.7	124.0	1.3%
Juneau	3,041	14,561	112	21	4	11,301.5	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,066	74,369	2,521	303	15	8,955.5	180.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,307	7,541	315	24	6	11,175.2	116.3	1.0%
La Crosse	12,482	55,669	769	80	0	10,548.2	67.6	0.6%
Lafayette	1,511	6,637	151	7	1	8,949.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,947	7,186	162	32	14	9,844.8	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	2,957	10,854	215	60	27	10,396.6	211.0	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,371	30,944	1,181	68	18	9,184.6	84.7	0.9%
Marathon	13,981	51,723	1,458	184	34	10,376.2	136.6	1.3%
Marinette	4,013	18,787	419	65	3	9,802.6	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,338	6,256	181	21	6	8,700.7	136.6	1.6%
Menominee	790	3,776	8	11	0	18,028.3	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	101,541	488,468	9,600	1,264	45	10,751.0	133.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,388	19,118	107	36	1	9,539.5	78.3	0.8%
Oconto	4,317	17,106	504	49	8	11,371.9	129.1	1.1%
Oneida	3,518	15,098	150	68	6	9,795.9	189.3	1.9%
Outagamie	20,026	88,513	2,761	200	16	10,895.5	108.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,916	41,974	966	82	7	8,958.8	92.8	1.0%
Pepin	823	3,125	23	7	0	11,198.8	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,663	16,999	936	35	6	8,797.9	84.1	1.0%
Polk	4,055	19,617	119	43	5	9,236.9	97.9	1.1%
Portage	6,566	27,115	557	67	3	9,284.6	94.7	1.0%
Price	1,185	5,625	99	7	0	8,582.0	50.7	0.6%
Racine	20,788	98,729	2,875	336	28	10,649.4	172.1	1.6%
Richland	1,275	8,088	73	15	0	7,198.5	84.7	1.2%
Rock	14,912	75,731	1,718	165	20	9,304.6	103.0	1.1%
Rusk	1,272	5,100	53	16	1	8,751.9	110.1	1.3%
Sauk	5,522	34,927	268	44	6	8,809.0	70.2	0.8%
Sawyer	1,578	8,375	41	23	1	9,523.8	138.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,634	17,529	563	69	12	11,231.2	167.2	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,336	47,838	853	134	9	11,645.6	117.0	1.0%
St. Croix	6,947	36,509	1,654	49	7	7,879.2	55.6	0.7%
Taylor	1,826	5,967	235	24	8	8,872.7	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,475	12,411	104	38	3	11,847.1	129.6	1.1%
Vernon	1,881	12,671	69	38	3	6,210.6	125.5	2.0%
Vilas	2,197	8,999	142	39	2	10,145.0	180.1	1.8%
Walworth	9,104	41,928	2,642	136	19	8,872.0	132.5	1.5%
Washburn	1,364	6,584	74	18	2	8,604.0	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,156	55,261	1,956	141	10	10,526.0	104.8	1.0%
Waukesha	42,363	178,356	4,699	503	48	10,626.8	126.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,791	20,907	1,087	116	44	9,261.4	224.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,122	10,954	319	31	4	8,733.2	127.6	1.5%
Winnebago	17,586	82,763	2,985	190	21	10,384.8	112.2	1.1%
Wood	6,774	32,155	482	77	13	9,150.8	104.0	1.1%