Unfortunate milestone
More than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 have now been reported in Wisconsin since the pandemic began.
Wisconsin reached an unfortunate benchmark Sunday: More than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 have now been reported in the state since the pandemic began.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services recorded 1,665 new COVID-19
cases on Sunday, dropping below 2,000 new cases for the first time since Wednesday.
Despite the drop, the new case amount is still higher than any date prior to Thursday.
Positive tests reported on Thursday, Friday and Saturday total 6,850, marking the highest number of positive tests over a three-day period in Wisconsin. On Friday, a record high 2,533 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported. The previous day, Thursday, saw 2,034 new positive tests, the thirdhighest single-day total, according to DHS.
Sunday’s percentage of tests reported positive was 20%, higher than the 18.3% of tests that were positive Saturday.
The average percentage of tests that came back positive in the last seven days reached 16.3% on Sunday.
More than 1.4 million Wisconsinites have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began. Of the 101,227 who tested positive:
85,824, or 85%, are considered “recovered”
by DHS, meaning either there is documented proof their symptoms have resolved or it’s been 30 days since their diagnosis.
14,143, or 14%, are considered “active,” meaning they aren’t “recovered” and haven’t died.
1,242, or 1.2%, have died.
At least 6,653, or 6.6% of all people who have tested positive for COVID-19, have been hospitalized, although DHS doesn’t know in about a third of confirmed COVID-19 cases if the infected person was ever admitted to a hospital.