815 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 815 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,432 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,228, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 31,266, 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 13.52%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.41%. 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 331 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 32 from the day prior and a decrease of 19 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 230.

The state reported 100 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,103 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 409 in the past week.

DHS reported 17 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,773 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,293 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 5.83, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 6.63.

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 18,096.8 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,073.9). Dodge County has recorded 13,176.4 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,151.7). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet, Eau Claire and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,059.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,048.5) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,307.2 (up from 10,293.1).

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 16th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a high transmission level (110.5) with regards to new cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days (100-149 is high transmission).

The city has moderate transmission based on the positive test rate (5.6%). Moderate transmission is defined as between 5% and 7.9%.

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 20.2%. 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	1,697	8,451	181	12	5	8,280.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,234	7,446	89	15	0	7,779.1	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,686	19,987	158	78	0	12,393.2	170.0	1.4%
Bayfield	1,122	7,182	119	19	0	7,379.6	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,296	135,628	3,444	236	40	12,021.7	90.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,346	5,547	34	7	0	9,963.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,341	6,349	140	22	0	8,681.3	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,734	22,273	653	46	4	11,139.2	89.4	0.8%
Chippewa	7,295	30,106	191	94	2	11,359.4	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,218	11,236	400	58	4	9,262.8	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,339	28,059	390	57	12	9,345.7	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,709	7,731	58	17	0	10,323.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,017	341,472	1,477	295	23	8,328.7	55.8	0.7%
Dodge	11,754	42,563	922	162	21	13,176.4	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,580	14,634	217	22	6	9,197.5	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,964	19,879	744	34	17	9,035.0	77.5	0.9%
Dunn	4,601	19,574	403	32	0	10,275.4	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,441	51,319	346	107	12	11,119.3	104.0	0.9%
Florence	442	1,658	55	12	0	9,997.7	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,267	46,774	1,222	106	9	11,866.7	102.5	0.9%
Forest	949	4,481	77	23	3	10,335.4	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,876	24,148	767	85	5	9,310.0	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,466	17,459	117	18	6	9,402.1	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,561	8,121	441	19	3	8,177.9	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,004	11,515	89	10	1	8,420.5	42.0	0.5%
Iron	574	2,685	117	21	19	9,822.0	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,613	9,592	62	26	2	12,657.4	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,293	37,333	1,173	109	23	9,793.9	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,108	14,849	112	21	5	11,550.5	78.0	0.7%
Kenosha	15,418	76,712	2,678	305	16	9,164.8	181.3	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,326	7,733	332	25	9	11,267.2	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,644	57,287	779	81	1	10,685.1	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,546	6,819	150	7	1	9,157.1	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,985	7,376	166	32	14	10,036.9	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,039	11,199	214	61	28	10,684.9	214.5	2.0%
Manitowoc	7,479	31,787	1,222	69	19	9,319.2	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,425	53,339	1,509	185	34	10,705.7	137.3	1.3%
Marinette	4,091	19,421	440	66	3	9,993.2	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,366	6,442	186	22	5	8,882.8	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	793	3,853	8	11	0	18,096.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,450	504,178	9,874	1,293	46	11,059.0	136.9	1.2%
Monroe	4,472	19,644	107	37	1	9,722.2	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,395	17,596	525	51	8	11,577.4	134.3	1.2%
Oneida	3,606	15,501	159	69	6	10,040.9	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,459	91,668	2,942	202	16	11,131.1	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,091	43,490	992	84	7	9,156.9	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	841	3,238	27	7	0	11,443.7	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,863	17,601	967	36	6	9,278.3	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,336	20,282	124	43	6	9,877.0	97.9	1.0%
Portage	6,678	27,685	563	68	3	9,443.0	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,225	5,809	106	7	0	8,871.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,369	101,898	2,997	339	28	10,947.1	173.7	1.6%
Richland	1,299	8,252	74	15	0	7,334.0	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,595	78,314	1,859	166	22	9,730.8	103.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,285	5,263	51	17	1	8,841.3	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,719	35,506	272	47	6	9,123.2	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,647	8,610	50	24	1	9,940.2	144.8	1.5%
Shawano	4,671	18,122	575	70	12	11,320.9	169.7	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,634	49,303	905	137	10	11,905.9	119.6	1.0%
St. Croix	7,528	38,036	1,684	50	7	8,538.1	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,855	6,152	234	24	8	9,013.6	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,517	12,723	105	41	3	11,990.3	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,903	12,952	70	39	3	6,283.2	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,224	9,279	145	40	2	10,269.7	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,352	43,325	2,781	135	22	9,113.7	131.6	1.4%
Washburn	1,427	6,852	82	18	2	9,001.5	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,500	57,043	2,020	147	11	10,781.8	109.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,385	184,180	4,870	520	51	10,883.2	130.4	1.2%
Waupaca	4,864	21,433	1,110	117	44	9,402.5	226.2	2.4%
Waushara	2,150	11,221	327	33	3	8,848.5	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	17,963	85,270	3,041	193	21	10,607.4	114.0	1.1%
Wood	6,922	33,224	488	77	13	9,350.8	104.0	1.1%