550 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 550 new COVID-19 cases Saturday from 4,308 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 3,136, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946. The seven-day testing total stands at 28,021, 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 11.19%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 12.09%. 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 325 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 1 from the day prior and an increase of 2 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 293.

The state reported 65 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 30,189 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 411 in the past week.

DHS reported 4 COVID-19 deaths. A total of 6,958 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 8.67, 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 13,332.2 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 13,316.5). 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, 11,249.9 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents (up from 11,242.0) have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began.

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 10,481.2 (up from 10,471.7).

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	1,751	8,731	196	12	5	8,543.5	58.6	0.7%
Ashland	1,264	7,633	99	15	0	7,968.2	94.6	1.2%
Barron	5,827	20,361	158	82	1	12,700.5	178.7	1.4%
Bayfield	1,152	7,335	125	19	0	7,577.0	125.0	1.6%
Brown	31,664	138,823	3,613	244	45	12,163.1	93.7	0.8%
Buffalo	1,368	5,620	34	7	0	10,126.6	51.8	0.5%
Burnett	1,397	6,542	143	22	0	9,043.8	142.4	1.6%
Calumet	5,807	22,777	673	51	5	11,281.0	99.1	0.9%
Chippewa	7,405	30,673	192	94	2	11,530.7	146.4	1.3%
Clark	3,266	11,488	403	59	4	9,401.0	169.8	1.8%
Columbia	5,459	28,598	401	57	12	9,555.7	99.8	1.0%
Crawford	1,723	7,838	61	18	0	10,407.7	108.7	1.0%
Dane	44,754	349,219	1,498	306	23	8,468.2	57.9	0.7%
Dodge	11,893	43,216	928	165	21	13,332.2	185.0	1.4%
Door	2,615	14,961	220	22	7	9,322.3	78.4	0.8%
Douglas	4,067	20,214	807	39	18	9,269.7	88.9	1.0%
Dunn	4,662	19,983	406	32	0	10,411.6	71.5	0.7%
Eau Claire	11,551	52,210	354	107	12	11,226.2	104.0	0.9%
Florence	448	1,680	54	13	0	10,133.5	294.1	2.9%
Fond du Lac	12,456	47,844	1,243	111	10	12,049.6	107.4	0.9%
Forest	961	4,589	79	23	3	10,466.1	250.5	2.4%
Grant	4,921	24,466	778	85	7	9,395.9	162.3	1.7%
Green	3,506	17,809	123	18	6	9,510.6	48.8	0.5%
Green Lake	1,577	8,306	440	19	3	8,261.7	99.5	1.2%
Iowa	2,033	11,714	88	10	1	8,542.4	42.0	0.5%
Iron	578	2,732	119	21	19	9,890.5	359.3	3.6%
Jackson	2,641	9,712	62	26	2	12,793.1	125.9	1.0%
Jefferson	8,405	38,155	1,206	110	23	9,926.2	129.9	1.3%
Juneau	3,187	15,073	114	22	6	11,844.1	81.8	0.7%
Kenosha	15,731	78,692	2,723	308	16	9,350.8	183.1	2.0%
Kewaunee	2,354	7,912	351	26	9	11,402.8	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	12,817	58,809	797	87	1	10,831.3	73.5	0.7%
Lafayette	1,566	6,971	153	9	1	9,275.6	53.3	0.6%
Langlade	2,009	7,565	170	32	14	10,158.3	161.8	1.6%
Lincoln	3,064	11,439	216	64	28	10,772.8	225.0	2.1%
Manitowoc	7,581	32,583	1,255	70	19	9,446.3	87.2	0.9%
Marathon	14,712	54,748	1,545	188	37	10,918.7	139.5	1.3%
Marinette	4,181	19,951	464	65	4	10,213.0	158.8	1.6%
Marquette	1,379	6,559	186	23	5	8,967.4	149.6	1.7%
Menominee	804	3,974	8	11	0	18,347.8	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	106,253	517,360	10,120	1,320	48	11,249.9	139.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,559	20,082	107	37	1	9,911.3	80.4	0.8%
Oconto	4,475	18,032	559	55	9	11,788.1	144.9	1.2%
Oneida	3,639	15,796	159	71	6	10,132.8	197.7	2.0%
Outagamie	20,678	94,140	2,991	206	16	11,250.3	112.1	1.0%
Ozaukee	8,201	44,594	1,002	89	7	9,281.3	100.7	1.1%
Pepin	860	3,361	27	7	0	11,702.3	95.3	0.8%
Pierce	3,992	18,326	965	37	6	9,588.1	88.9	0.9%
Polk	4,576	20,849	133	52	8	10,423.7	118.5	1.1%
Portage	6,772	28,269	575	68	4	9,575.9	96.2	1.0%
Price	1,233	5,937	106	7	0	8,929.6	50.7	0.6%
Racine	21,884	104,087	3,115	350	29	11,210.9	179.3	1.6%
Richland	1,307	8,326	73	15	0	7,379.2	84.7	1.1%
Rock	16,137	80,194	1,921	174	24	10,068.9	108.6	1.1%
Rusk	1,326	5,415	60	17	1	9,123.4	117.0	1.3%
Sauk	5,862	35,909	277	48	6	9,351.4	76.6	0.8%
Sawyer	1,710	8,815	80	26	1	10,320.5	156.9	1.5%
Shawano	4,712	18,552	582	72	11	11,420.3	174.5	1.5%
Sheboygan	13,762	50,480	910	142	11	12,017.6	124.0	1.0%
St. Croix	7,960	40,730	1,686	54	7	9,028.1	61.2	0.7%
Taylor	1,874	6,284	236	24	8	9,105.9	116.6	1.3%
Trempealeau	3,545	12,990	106	42	3	12,085.8	143.2	1.2%
Vernon	1,929	13,129	71	39	3	6,369.1	128.8	2.0%
Vilas	2,266	9,543	146	39	2	10,463.6	180.1	1.7%
Walworth	9,494	44,376	2,856	136	23	9,252.1	132.5	1.4%
Washburn	1,479	7,080	87	20	2	9,329.5	126.2	1.4%
Washington	14,726	58,471	2,055	154	14	10,949.8	114.5	1.0%
Waukesha	43,836	188,946	4,947	534	52	10,996.3	134.0	1.2%
Waupaca	4,899	21,900	1,131	120	44	9,470.1	232.0	2.4%
Waushara	2,167	11,412	341	34	3	8,918.4	139.9	1.6%
Winnebago	18,189	87,074	3,096	197	22	10,740.9	116.3	1.1%
Wood	7,088	34,179	496	80	14	9,575.0	108.1	1.1%