Wisconsin’s recent COVID-19 test positivity highest since May
The past week’s COVID-19 tests in Wisconsin have come back positive at the highest rate since the seven days ending May 5, according to state health officials Friday.
The Department of Health Services confirmed 843 more cases of the disease Friday, accounting for 9.2% of 9,156 newly reported test results.
Of tests processed over the past seven days — including negative results that have yet to be manually logged as confirmed — 8.1% were positive for the virus.
That’s up from a low of 3% at the beginning of June. The peak was 9.8% in early April, when testing was limited to those who were hospitalized or most at risk for the virus.
Two more Wisconsin residents had died from the disease, officials reported Friday.
Of 73,981 Wisconsin residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began:
65,265, or 88.2%, are listed by state health officials as “recovered,” meaning there’s proof their symptoms have resolved, or more than 30 days have passed since their diagnosis.
7,585, or 10.3%, are listed as “active,” meaning they’re not yet recovered and haven’t died.
5,736, or 7.8%, have been or are hospitalized. It’s not known in about a third of cases whether somebody was hospitalized.
1,113, or 1.5%, have died.
As of Thursday afternoon, Wisconsin hospitals reported 291 inpatients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 — down 53 from a day earlier — with 96 of them in intensive care.
Another 124 patients were awaiting test results.