513 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 485 new COVID-19 cases Friday from 4,138 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,111, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 27,277, 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 11.41%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.24%. 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 9 from the day prior and a decrease of 1 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 317.

The state reported 65 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,124 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 393 in the past week.

DHS reported 1 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,954 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,320 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 8.63, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 5.30.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 17th worst in the state. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 18,347.8 cases per 100,000 residents (unchanged). Dodge County has recorded 13,316.5 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,312.0). Jackson, Barron, Brown, Trempealeau, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Juneau, Oconto, Pepin, Chippewa, Shawano, Kewaunee, Calumet and Outagamie are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 11,242.0 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,230.4) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,471.7 (up from 10,462.9).

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 May 13th and excluding the four days prior, indicates the city has a substantial transmission level (80.3) 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 (4.0%). 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 38.2%. 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	1,749	8,712	197	12	5	8,533.8	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,264	7,617	98	15	0	7,968.2	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,815	20,339	157	82	1	12,674.4	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,150	7,326	125	19	0	7,563.8	125.0	1.7%
Brown	31,654	138,624	3,593	244	45	12,159.2	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,365	5,613	34	7	0	10,104.4	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,389	6,531	144	22	0	8,992.0	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,800	22,750	673	51	5	11,267.4	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,399	30,637	191	94	2	11,521.3	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,264	11,477	402	59	4	9,395.2	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,453	28,568	400	57	12	9,545.2	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,723	7,829	61	18	0	10,407.7	108.7	1.0%
Dane	44,704	348,617	1,497	306	23	8,458.7	57.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,879	43,175	927	164	21	13,316.5	183.8	1.4%
Door	2,614	14,934	219	22	7	9,318.7	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,064	20,194	802	39	18	9,262.9	88.9	1.0%
Dunn	4,661	19,958	406	32	0	10,409.4	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,543	52,150	354	107	12	11,218.5	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,680	54	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,438	47,778	1,240	111	10	12,032.2	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,586	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,913	24,455	779	85	7	9,380.6	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,503	17,791	122	18	6	9,502.5	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,575	8,298	440	19	3	8,251.3	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,033	11,701	88	10	1	8,542.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	578	2,729	119	21	19	9,890.5	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,640	9,710	62	26	2	12,788.2	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,397	38,112	1,207	110	23	9,916.7	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,184	15,045	114	22	6	11,832.9	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,714	78,586	2,721	308	16	9,340.7	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,352	7,905	352	26	9	11,393.1	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,804	58,733	797	87	1	10,820.3	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,565	6,964	152	9	1	9,269.7	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,008	7,557	170	32	14	10,153.2	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,064	11,431	216	64	28	10,772.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,576	32,555	1,253	70	19	9,440.0	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,699	54,680	1,544	188	37	10,909.1	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,170	19,902	463	65	4	10,186.1	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,377	6,554	187	23	5	8,954.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,950	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,178	516,726	10,119	1,320	48	11,242.0	139.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,553	20,047	107	37	1	9,898.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,469	18,002	555	55	9	11,772.3	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,638	15,789	159	71	6	10,130.0	197.7	2.0%
Outagamie	20,666	94,034	2,988	206	16	11,243.7	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,193	44,537	1,002	89	7	9,272.3	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	859	3,348	26	7	0	11,688.7	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,988	18,303	964	37	6	9,578.5	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,559	20,833	135	52	8	10,385.0	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,768	28,243	576	68	4	9,570.3	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,232	5,930	106	7	0	8,922.4	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,859	103,980	3,104	348	29	11,198.1	178.3	1.6%
Richland	1,306	8,317	74	15	0	7,373.5	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,096	80,068	1,918	174	23	10,043.4	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,322	5,401	60	17	1	9,095.9	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,852	35,856	277	48	6	9,335.4	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,701	8,800	79	26	1	10,266.2	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,708	18,535	581	72	11	11,410.6	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,762	50,409	910	142	11	12,017.6	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,938	40,681	1,684	54	7	9,003.2	61.2	0.7%
Taylor	1,872	6,278	236	24	8	9,096.2	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,545	12,969	106	42	3	12,085.8	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,926	13,115	71	39	3	6,359.2	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,264	9,524	146	39	2	10,454.4	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,492	44,333	2,854	136	23	9,250.1	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,476	7,067	87	20	2	9,310.5	126.2	1.4%
Washington	14,719	58,413	2,051	154	14	10,944.6	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,817	188,697	4,942	533	52	10,991.6	133.7	1.2%
Waupaca	4,898	21,878	1,130	120	44	9,468.2	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,164	11,414	344	34	3	8,906.1	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,181	86,982	3,096	197	22	10,736.1	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,082	34,123	495	80	14	9,566.9	108.1	1.1%