New COVID-19 Cases At Lowest Point Since Mid-September

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 1,301 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday from 5,448 processed tests.

The seven-day case total stands at 11,040, below November 18th’s record report of 45,946 and its lowest point since September 17th. The seven-day testing total stands at 47,152, 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 22.94%, below the record high of 38.12% set December 4th. The 14-day average is 25.02%. 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. Multiple public health benchmarks call for the positive case rate figure to be sustained under five percent.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported that 746 people were actively hospitalized with a confirmed case of the disease, a decrease of 26 from a day prior and 119 from a week ago. Thirty days ago the total was 1,088.

The state reported 135 people were newly hospitalized in the past 24 hours in its daily data release. A total of 23,883 people have required hospitalization since the outbreak began, 639 in the past week.

DHS reported 54 new deaths. A total of 5,753 Wisconsin residents have died as a result of the virus, including 1,122 in Milwaukee County.

The 30-day average daily death total now stands at 33.97, below the December 23rd reported record of 53.43. Thirty days ago the rolling average was 47.83.

Since September, Milwaukee County has gone from having the worst per-capita outbreak to the 18th worst in the state, even as its case and hospitalization load has surged to record levels. The county fell as low as 26th in early November.

Menominee County has recorded 17,868.6 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 17,845.7). Dodge County has recorded 12,410.7 cases per 100,000 residents (up from 12,389.4). Jackson, Shawano, Trempealeau, Brown, Fond du Lac, Oconto, Sheboygan, Kewaunee, Barron, Chippewa, Calumet and Juneau are the remaining counties leading Milwaukee.

According to DHS data, 9,928 out of every 100,000 Milwaukee County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began (up from 9,904.3).

The statewide average of cases per 100,000 residents rose to 9,258.1 (up from 9,235.6). Wisconsin has recorded a per-capita rate of 539.3 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks according to the DHS activity level report released Wednesday. That’s down from the record 1,519.4 reported November 18th.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by gender

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by race

Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by ethnicity

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	1,473	7,225	156	11	3	7,187.1	53.7	0.7%
Ashland	1,125	6,384	65	16	0	7,092.0	100.9	1.4%
Barron	5,043	17,767	125	69	0	10,991.7	150.4	1.4%
Bayfield	1,028	6,207	55	18	0	6,761.4	118.4	1.8%
Brown	28,956	120,498	2,063	190	16	11,122.8	73.0	0.7%
Buffalo	1,239	4,764	31	7	0	9,171.7	51.8	0.6%
Burnett	1,086	5,592	122	23	0	7,030.5	148.9	2.1%
Calumet	5,158	18,928	461	39	2	10,020.2	75.8	0.8%
Chippewa	6,710	26,597	148	77	2	10,448.5	119.9	1.1%
Clark	3,068	9,747	357	56	4	8,831.1	161.2	1.8%
Columbia	4,757	25,207	361	39	6	8,326.9	68.3	0.8%
Crawford	1,629	6,998	47	15	0	9,839.9	90.6	0.9%
Dane	37,352	309,153	1,487	240	20	7,067.6	45.4	0.6%
Dodge	11,071	38,275	701	142	18	12,410.7	159.2	1.3%
Door	2,328	13,025	190	18	5	8,299.2	64.2	0.8%
Douglas	3,495	17,027	562	18	14	7,966.0	41.0	0.5%
Dunn	3,972	16,954	319	26	0	8,870.6	58.1	0.7%
Eau Claire	10,389	44,979	290	97	10	10,096.9	94.3	0.9%
Florence	417	1,511	32	12	0	9,432.3	271.4	2.9%
Fond du Lac	11,439	40,841	928	80	9	11,065.8	77.4	0.7%
Forest	901	3,899	67	22	3	9,812.7	239.6	2.4%
Grant	4,425	21,448	620	78	5	8,448.8	148.9	1.8%
Green	2,636	14,938	94	12	5	7,150.6	32.6	0.5%
Green Lake	1,480	7,100	399	14	3	7,753.6	73.3	0.9%
Iowa	1,779	10,198	86	9	1	7,475.1	37.8	0.5%
Iron	471	2,334	112	19	17	8,059.5	325.1	4.0%
Jackson	2,535	9,259	39	21	0	12,279.6	101.7	0.8%
Jefferson	7,462	33,158	841	68	5	8,812.5	80.3	0.9%
Juneau	2,856	13,857	79	17	1	10,613.9	63.2	0.6%
Kenosha	14,057	67,428	1,878	265	11	8,355.8	157.5	1.9%
Kewaunee	2,317	6,763	152	26	1	11,223.6	125.9	1.1%
La Crosse	11,417	48,422	612	70	0	9,648.2	59.2	0.6%
Lafayette	1,355	5,931	142	7	1	8,025.8	41.5	0.5%
Langlade	1,882	6,447	151	31	12	9,516.1	156.7	1.6%
Lincoln	2,771	9,780	185	54	15	9,742.6	189.9	1.9%
Manitowoc	6,839	27,543	1,025	60	15	8,521.7	74.8	0.9%
Marathon	13,162	46,517	1,295	169	32	9,768.4	125.4	1.3%
Marinette	3,872	16,586	370	58	2	9,458.2	141.7	1.5%
Marquette	1,243	5,608	163	21	5	8,083.0	136.6	1.7%
Menominee	783	3,710	2	11	0	17,868.6	251.0	1.4%
Milwaukee	93,768	432,315	8,242	1,122	24	9,928.0	118.8	1.2%
Monroe	4,016	17,300	83	30	1	8,730.8	65.2	0.7%
Oconto	4,115	15,540	408	45	7	10,839.8	118.5	1.1%
Oneida	3,109	13,810	126	55	4	8,657.0	153.1	1.8%
Outagamie	18,128	76,406	2,027	176	7	9,862.9	95.8	1.0%
Ozaukee	7,241	37,283	847	70	6	8,194.9	79.2	1.0%
Pepin	774	2,833	19	7	0	10,532.0	95.3	0.9%
Pierce	3,259	15,231	807	32	5	7,827.5	76.9	1.0%
Polk	3,506	17,425	52	41	1	7,986.3	93.4	1.2%
Portage	6,052	24,642	454	58	3	8,557.8	82.0	1.0%
Price	1,079	5,083	87	7	0	7,814.3	50.7	0.6%
Racine	19,623	94,792	2,474	293	24	10,052.6	150.1	1.5%
Richland	1,209	8,058	35	13	0	6,825.9	73.4	1.1%
Rock	13,597	68,190	1,400	137	12	8,484.1	85.5	1.0%
Rusk	1,217	4,539	38	14	1	8,373.5	96.3	1.2%
Sauk	5,007	33,171	231	35	6	7,987.4	55.8	0.7%
Sawyer	1,390	7,592	32	17	0	8,389.2	102.6	1.2%
Shawano	4,467	15,958	479	67	12	10,826.5	162.4	1.5%
Sheboygan	12,358	42,833	645	112	7	10,791.6	97.8	0.9%
St. Croix	6,034	32,151	1,442	39	4	6,843.7	44.2	0.6%
Taylor	1,741	5,398	209	20	8	8,459.7	97.2	1.1%
Trempealeau	3,253	11,158	88	34	2	11,090.3	115.9	1.0%
Vernon	1,715	11,933	63	33	3	5,662.5	109.0	1.9%
Vilas	1,877	7,925	103	31	2	8,667.3	143.1	1.7%
Walworth	8,503	38,297	2,215	116	13	8,286.3	113.0	1.4%
Washburn	1,206	5,857	69	16	2	7,607.4	100.9	1.3%
Washington	13,125	49,022	1,651	119	6	9,759.4	88.5	0.9%
Waukesha	38,608	157,804	3,794	429	36	9,684.9	107.6	1.1%
Waupaca	4,574	18,442	829	104	40	8,841.9	201.0	2.3%
Waushara	2,033	10,178	244	25	2	8,366.9	102.9	1.2%
Winnebago	16,376	73,660	2,414	166	19	9,670.3	98.0	1.0%
Wood	6,280	28,304	404	65	11	8,483.5	87.8	1.0%