More people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 than ever before — 543 — and nine more have died as the effects of the recent spike in coronavirus spread are felt in Wisconsin.
The state confirmed 2,504 new coronavirus cases Friday on just under 15,000 tests, for a positive test rate of 16.6 percent. Those results bring the total case count to 110,828 of which over 17,171 are considered active, about 800 more than Tuesday.
Today is the 21st day of the past 22 that the positive test rate has been over 10 percent.
Wisconsin’s positive test rate for the past seven days is now 17.18 percent, and the 14-day rate is down slightly to 16.76 percent. Today’s data brings the seven-day average of new cases to 1,936 and the 14-day average to 1,787.
Nine new fatalities were reported today — two in Milwaukee County and one each in Calumet, Marinette, Outagamie, Pierce, Taylor, Walworth and Winnegago Counties — bringing the total death toll to 1,274.
Wisconsin has averaged 5.14 deaths per day over the past week and 5.0 per day over the past two weeks.
The highest local new case count came in Brown County, with a 278 new cases and 16.45 percent positive tests.
Other localities with higher case totals and positive tests rates include:
Calumet County: 28 new cases, 18.43 percent positive tests
Chippewa County: 19 new cases, 52.78 percent positive tests
Clark County: 14 new cases, 17.28 percent positive tests
Columbia County: 15 new cases, 30.61 percent positive tests
Dane County: 142 new cases, 8.74 percent positive tests
Dodge County: 54 new cases, 12.08 percent positive tests
Douglas County: 12 new cases, 16 percent positive tests
Dunn County: 23 new cases, 88.46 percent positive tests
Eau Claire County: 42 new cases, 11.76 percent positive tests
Fond du Lac County: 61 new cases, 16.44 percent positive tests
Grant County: 32 new cases, 57.14 percent positive tests
Green Lake County: 13 new cases, 27.08 percent positive tests
Jefferson County: 33 new cases, 18.75 percent positive tests
Juneau County: 10 new cases, 12.99 percent positive tests
Kenosha County: 41 new cases, 8.4 percent positive tests
Kewaunee County: 27 new cases, 25.23 percent positive tests
La Crosse County: 108 new cases, 34.39 percent positive tests
Lafayette County: 12 new cases, 28.57 percent positive tests
Lincoln County: 10 new cases, 71.43 percent positive tests
Manitowoc County: 35 new cases, 50.72 percent positive tests
Marathon County: 41 new cases, 14.64 percent positive tests
Marinette County: 38 new cases, 40.43 percent positive tests
Marquette County: 15 new cases, 31.91 percent positive tests
Milwaukee County: 265 new cases, 19.41 percent positive tests
Monroe County: 31 new cases, 26.27 percent positive tests
Oconto County: 29 new cases, 34.12 percent positive tests
Oneida County: 21 new cases, 6.54 percent positive tests
Outagamie County: 110 new cases, 16.22 percent positive tests
Ozaukee County: 20 new cases, 5.13 percent positive tests
Portage County: 49 new cases, 45.37 percent positive tests
Racine County: 67 new cases, 12.57 percent positive tests
Rock County: 65 new cases, 12.9 percent positive tests
Sauk County: 10 new cases, 58.82 percent positive tests
Shawano County: 44 new cases, 35.48 percent positive tests
Sheboygan County: 20 new cases, 11.9 percent positive tests
Trempeleau County: 14 new cases, 15.91 percent positive tests
Walworth County: 24 new cases, 12.83 percent positive tests
Washington County: 55 new cases, 14.67 percent positive tests
Waukesha County: 130 new cases, 25.59 percent positive tests
Waupaca County: 24 new cases, 22.22 percent positive tests
Waushara County: 16 new cases, 29.09 percent positive tests
Winnebago County: 210 new cases, 32.61 percent positive tests
Wood County: 20 new cases, 9.62 percent positive tests
The number hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday jumped to 543, the most the pandemic began and the third consecutive day over 500. Today’s total is 15 more than Thursday and 201 more than a week ago — meaning the population of those hospitalized with COVID-19 has increased by 68 percent in one week. Of those, 147 were in ICUs, four fewer than Thursday.
