789 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 789 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 4,482 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,358, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,047, 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 14.50%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.23%. 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 338 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 9 from the day prior and a decrease of 15 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 233.

The state reported 52 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,307 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 442 in the past week.

DHS reported 8 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,823 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,298 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 6.70, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 7.00.

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 18,210.9 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 18,165.2). Dodge County has recorded 13,210.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,195.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Juneau, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet, Outagamie and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,100.8 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,084.2) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,346.7 (up from 10,333.0).

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 29th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a high transmission level (111.3) 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%). 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 30.8%. 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	1,705	8,477	184	12	5	8,319.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,242	7,470	91	15	0	7,829.5	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,713	20,051	153	81	0	12,452.0	176.5	1.4%
Bayfield	1,127	7,203	121	19	0	7,412.5	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,376	136,248	3,483	240	42	12,052.4	92.2	0.8%
Buffalo	1,349	5,558	34	7	0	9,985.9	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,351	6,394	141	22	0	8,746.0	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,744	22,356	655	47	4	11,158.6	91.3	0.8%
Chippewa	7,312	30,244	192	94	2	11,385.9	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,228	11,291	403	58	4	9,291.6	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,360	28,173	390	57	12	9,382.4	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,709	7,762	58	17	0	10,323.2	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,216	342,980	1,480	299	23	8,366.4	56.6	0.7%
Dodge	11,784	42,689	923	162	21	13,210.0	181.6	1.4%
Door	2,584	14,677	218	22	6	9,211.8	78.4	0.9%
Douglas	3,979	19,932	751	34	17	9,069.2	77.5	0.9%
Dunn	4,608	19,668	403	32	0	10,291.0	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,465	51,503	349	108	12	11,142.6	105.0	0.9%
Florence	443	1,658	55	12	0	10,020.4	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,304	46,961	1,227	110	10	11,902.5	106.4	0.9%
Forest	955	4,497	77	23	3	10,400.8	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,884	24,227	772	85	5	9,325.2	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,481	17,540	119	18	6	9,442.8	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,565	8,171	439	19	3	8,198.9	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,008	11,539	88	10	1	8,437.3	42.0	0.5%
Iron	575	2,691	117	21	19	9,839.2	359.3	3.7%
Jackson	2,618	9,611	62	26	2	12,681.7	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,311	37,509	1,177	109	23	9,815.2	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,123	14,904	112	22	5	11,606.2	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,473	77,082	2,690	306	16	9,197.5	181.9	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,331	7,770	333	25	9	11,291.4	121.1	1.1%
La Crosse	12,680	57,564	781	81	1	10,715.5	68.5	0.6%
Lafayette	1,552	6,852	150	8	1	9,192.7	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,990	7,416	166	32	14	10,062.2	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,044	11,250	214	63	28	10,702.5	221.5	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,494	31,984	1,229	69	19	9,337.9	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,516	53,651	1,516	186	34	10,773.3	138.0	1.3%
Marinette	4,111	19,505	440	66	3	10,042.0	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,369	6,455	186	22	5	8,902.3	143.1	1.6%
Menominee	798	3,875	8	11	0	18,210.9	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	104,845	506,599	9,956	1,298	47	11,100.8	137.4	1.2%
Monroe	4,493	19,702	107	37	1	9,767.8	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,411	17,690	529	53	8	11,619.5	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,618	15,547	160	69	6	10,074.3	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,501	92,115	2,945	202	16	11,154.0	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,114	43,669	996	84	7	9,182.9	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,301	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,909	17,709	971	36	6	9,388.7	86.5	0.9%
Polk	4,376	20,404	124	46	7	9,968.1	104.8	1.1%
Portage	6,694	27,793	564	68	4	9,465.6	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,225	5,834	106	7	0	8,871.7	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,473	102,263	3,017	340	28	11,000.3	174.2	1.6%
Richland	1,300	8,264	73	15	0	7,339.7	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,748	78,692	1,854	168	22	9,826.2	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,293	5,288	52	17	1	8,896.4	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,750	35,548	272	47	6	9,172.7	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,660	8,655	49	25	1	10,018.7	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,676	18,210	573	71	11	11,333.0	172.1	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,659	49,488	907	138	10	11,927.7	120.5	1.0%
St. Croix	7,642	38,240	1,688	50	7	8,667.4	56.7	0.7%
Taylor	1,861	6,181	233	24	8	9,042.8	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,528	12,794	105	41	3	12,027.8	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,910	12,990	71	39	3	6,306.3	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,236	9,335	145	40	2	10,325.1	184.7	1.8%
Walworth	9,383	43,541	2,797	136	23	9,143.9	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,436	6,900	82	18	2	9,058.2	113.5	1.3%
Washington	14,556	57,327	2,025	150	11	10,823.4	111.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,514	185,222	4,904	523	51	10,915.6	131.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,872	21,515	1,114	118	44	9,418.0	228.1	2.4%
Waushara	2,151	11,255	332	33	3	8,852.6	135.8	1.5%
Winnebago	18,016	85,632	3,050	194	21	10,638.7	114.6	1.1%
Wood	6,970	33,445	489	79	13	9,415.6	106.7	1.1%