721 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 721 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 3,520 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 4,433, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 30,437, 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 14.56%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 14.04%. 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 326 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, an increase of 11 from the day prior and a decrease of 5 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 235.

The state reported 86 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 29,527 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 424 in the past week.

DHS reported 11 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,850 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,299 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 7.03, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.40.

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 18,233.7 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,238.0 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,232.4). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Kewaunee, Shawano, Outagamie, Calumet and Eau Claire are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,145.4 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,137.8) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,383.9 (up from 10,371.4).

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.

Correction: The article originally stated there were 349 new cases of COVID-19 reported. This was incorrect. There were 721 new cases reported.

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	1,713	8,529	183	12	5	8,358.1	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,252	7,530	93	15	0	7,892.6	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,740	20,122	153	82	1	12,510.9	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,137	7,235	120	19	0	7,478.3	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,455	136,876	3,519	241	42	12,082.8	92.6	0.8%
Buffalo	1,351	5,562	34	7	0	10,000.7	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,357	6,428	143	22	0	8,784.9	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,753	22,470	668	48	4	11,176.1	93.2	0.8%
Chippewa	7,339	30,365	191	94	2	11,427.9	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,240	11,343	403	58	4	9,326.2	166.9	1.8%
Columbia	5,375	28,284	390	57	12	9,408.7	99.8	1.1%
Crawford	1,708	7,774	59	17	0	10,317.1	102.7	1.0%
Dane	44,359	344,427	1,479	302	23	8,393.4	57.1	0.7%
Dodge	11,809	42,795	922	163	21	13,238.0	182.7	1.4%
Door	2,592	14,733	219	22	6	9,240.3	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,012	20,011	765	34	17	9,144.4	77.5	0.8%
Dunn	4,625	19,730	404	32	0	10,329.0	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,480	51,713	352	107	12	11,157.2	104.0	0.9%
Florence	446	1,662	55	12	0	10,088.2	271.4	2.7%
Fond du Lac	12,333	47,144	1,228	111	10	11,930.6	107.4	0.9%
Forest	958	4,517	79	23	3	10,433.5	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,891	24,281	771	85	5	9,338.6	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,490	17,588	119	18	6	9,467.2	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,570	8,198	439	19	3	8,225.1	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,016	11,570	88	10	1	8,470.9	42.0	0.5%
Iron	576	2,701	117	21	19	9,856.3	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,623	9,638	62	26	2	12,705.9	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,338	37,646	1,182	109	23	9,847.1	128.7	1.3%
Juneau	3,145	14,943	112	22	5	11,688.0	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,543	77,455	2,696	307	16	9,239.1	182.5	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,343	7,812	335	26	9	11,349.5	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,731	57,929	786	83	1	10,758.6	70.1	0.7%
Lafayette	1,554	6,885	150	8	1	9,204.5	47.4	0.5%
Langlade	1,993	7,471	166	32	14	10,077.4	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,049	11,289	214	64	28	10,720.1	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,518	32,119	1,232	69	19	9,367.8	86.0	0.9%
Marathon	14,560	53,924	1,528	187	35	10,805.9	138.8	1.3%
Marinette	4,133	19,624	446	66	4	10,095.8	161.2	1.6%
Marquette	1,370	6,484	186	23	5	8,908.8	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	799	3,900	8	11	0	18,233.7	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	105,266	509,255	10,000	1,299	47	11,145.4	137.5	1.2%
Monroe	4,517	19,789	107	37	1	9,820.0	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,428	17,758	541	53	8	11,664.3	139.6	1.2%
Oneida	3,624	15,618	159	69	6	10,091.1	192.1	1.9%
Outagamie	20,545	92,664	2,966	202	16	11,177.9	109.9	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,135	43,876	997	84	7	9,206.7	95.1	1.0%
Pepin	850	3,319	26	7	0	11,566.2	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,928	17,794	972	37	6	9,434.4	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,426	20,515	124	47	7	10,082.0	107.1	1.1%
Portage	6,718	27,946	568	68	4	9,499.6	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,226	5,864	106	7	0	8,878.9	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,570	102,676	3,037	343	28	11,050.0	175.7	1.6%
Richland	1,303	8,280	73	15	0	7,356.6	84.7	1.2%
Rock	15,873	79,100	1,868	168	22	9,904.2	104.8	1.1%
Rusk	1,296	5,312	53	17	1	8,917.0	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,780	35,592	278	47	6	9,220.6	75.0	0.8%
Sawyer	1,667	8,703	53	25	1	10,061.0	150.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,679	18,299	574	72	11	11,340.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,697	49,719	899	140	10	11,960.9	122.3	1.0%
St. Croix	7,730	38,451	1,695	51	7	8,767.3	57.8	0.7%
Taylor	1,867	6,210	233	24	8	9,071.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,531	12,843	105	41	3	12,038.0	139.8	1.2%
Vernon	1,912	13,041	71	39	3	6,312.9	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,241	9,378	146	39	2	10,348.2	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,414	43,753	2,808	136	23	9,174.1	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,445	6,952	83	18	2	9,115.0	113.5	1.2%
Washington	14,607	57,578	2,031	151	12	10,861.4	112.3	1.0%
Waukesha	43,629	186,092	4,923	523	52	10,944.4	131.2	1.2%
Waupaca	4,880	21,635	1,118	118	44	9,433.4	228.1	2.4%
Waushara	2,154	11,292	332	34	3	8,864.9	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,077	86,011	3,063	195	21	10,674.7	115.2	1.1%
Wood	7,006	33,651	491	80	13	9,464.2	108.1	1.1%