Public Health of Madison and Dane County reported 346 new coronavirus cases this morning, bringing the cumulative total to 28,453 cases. The number of recovered cases is at 23,585 as active cases dropped to 4,789, or 16.8 percent of all cases. Total cases have grown 64.5 percent over the past 30 days.
Today, the number of people currently hospitalized in Dane County — both Dane County residents and people from neighboring counties — has risen by nine to 172. Of those 172 total hospitalizations, 38 are currently in the ICU.
For Dane County residents, the number of people ever hospitalized for COVID-19 has increased by 15 to 834. Of those 15, five are in their 60s, four in their 70s, two in their 50s and one in the following age groups: 10-19, 20s, 30s, and 80s. Four of the 15 are Black and two are Hispanic/Latinx according to the update.
The number of hospitalizations for residents in the county continues to impact adults 60 and older the most for the past few weeks. Madison365 has graphed that growth from information gathered daily from PHMDC’s data which reflects that the number of hospitalized cases in those in their 90s grew by 20 percent as adults in their 70s grew by 19.5 percent and adults in their 60s by 16 percent.
Hospitalizations also continue to significantly impact our communities of color with those who are Asian grew by 23.3 percent and those who are American Indian growing about 20 percent from two weeks ago. Hospitalizations for Black people have grown by 14.3 percent and those who identify as Hispanic in our community have grown 8.0 percent.
Of the 346 new cases reported today, 203 were attributed to December 3 as 114 were attributed to December 2, increasing that day’s total to 419. There were also 27 new cases added to December 1, which increased that total to 253.
Age groups between 0-79 all grew by double digits this morning with adults in their 20s growing by 72 cases or 27.4 percent of all new cases reported. Adults in their 30s grew by 65, followed by those aged 10-19 who grew by 50, and adults in their 40s who grew by 47 new cases. Adults in their 60s added 34 new cases, in their 50s by 32, children under 10 by 19 and adults in their 70s grew by 14. In single digit increases, adults in their 80s grew by eight and adults in their 90s grew by five new cases
When looking at our communities of color, our Hispanic community grew by 67 new cases or 19.4 percent of all new cases broken down by ethnicity. Though they make up only 6 percent of the population in Dane County, they now make up 15.6 percent of all cases when broken down by ethnicity. There were 35 new cases reported for those who are Black – increasing their total number of cases when broken down by race to 7.8 percent when they make up only 6 percent of the county population. Asian people in Dane County grew by 18 new cases while making up 3.5 of cases while American Indians in our county grew by four more. Though those who identify as American Indian only make up .5 percent of the population in our county, they now make up .8 percent of all cases.
Looking at growth over the past two weeks, infection in those in their 90s grew by 29 percent as adults in their 80s grew by 19.2 percent. Adults in their 60s grew by 18 percent and adults in their 70s by 17.8 since November 20.
In terms of case growth for the past two weeks for our communities of color, cases among Black people have grown by 19.7 percent while Asian people have grown by 18.5 percent. Those who identify as Hispanic/Latinx have grown 16.6 percent while American Indians in our community have grown by 15.5 percent during this same period.
The most updated data on positive test percentage for a single day is for December 3 at 5.8 percent while December 2 is now at 7.1 percent. December 1 is at 6.4 and November 30 is at 6.8. Madison365 expects that these numbers will be adjusted as more negative and positive tests are fully processed and attributed to the appropriate dates in the coming days. As of December 3, the 7 day percentage of positive for cases was at 7.2 while the 14 day average is now at 6.5. The break down for each day can be found on Public Health of Madison and Dane County’s Dashboard.
On Wednesday, UW reported 17 additional positives for students from on-campus testing, 3 positives from off-campus testing for students and three positive for employees from on-campus testing. All of these positive tests have been attributed to December 2. In total, there are 4,625 positive students and 450 positive employees (which includes 2 additional positives from dates earlier in the week) to date for a total of 5075 cumulative cases for UW campus since tracking began for campus. The 7 day average of cases is now at 13.9 for both students and staff in on and off campus testing as of December 1. While the 7 day average for the percentage of positives for students is now at 1.5 for students and 0.9 for employees from on campus testing.
Madison365 updated our weekly map for COVID-19 cases within our county tracts this past Friday. Our team will continue to update this data and publish it weekly.
We will have an update later this afternoon for statewide numbers after 2 pm.
