Public Health of Madison and Dane County reported 201 new COVID-19 cases this morning, bringing the total for all cases in county to 16,126. The number of recovered cases has risen to 13,186 as the number of active cases dropped to 2,891 or about 17.93 percent of all cases.
The number of people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in Dane County hospitals dropped to 126 this morning. Of those 126, 32 are currently in the ICU. This includes patients who live in and outside of Dane County.
The number of Dane County residents ever hospitalized has increased by four to 536. This update includes two adults in their 70s, one in their 30s and one in their 80s. One person hospitalized is Asian and one person identifies as Hispanic.
Of the 201 cases reported today, 17 were attributed to November 1 while an additional 107 cases were attributed to October 31, increasing that day’s positive test count to 143, while 57 more cases were added to October 30 increasing that day’s count to 293. The rest of the new cases were attributed to earlier dates last week.
Age groups from 10-69 grew by double digits today. Those in their 20s grew by 55, with a total of 27.4 percent of all new cases, while those in their 30s grew by 35, or 17.4 percent of all new cases. Those in their 50s grew by 31 followed by those aged in their 40s who grew by 26 new cases. Adults in their 70s and those aged 10-19 both grew by 15 new cases while children aged 0-9 grew by 14. Adults in their 70s grew by six new cases while adults in their 80s ad 90s both grew by two new cases.
Madison365 is unable to report the percentage of increase the past two weeks as from late afternoon on October 16 through October 20, PHMDC was unable to provide a daily update due to an upgrade on the Department of Health Services’ system. Looking at the increase since October 26, those aged in their 80s grew by 22.3 percent while adults in their 90s saw an increase of 21.7 percent. Children aged 0-9 saw an increase as well of 21.3 percent while adults in their 70s followed closely with 21.2 percent increase since October 26.
Data for communities of color also continue to see growths and over-representation in their populations. Those who identify as American Indian/Alaskan saw a growth of 25.0 percent in cases for the past week while those who identify has Hispanic/Latinx grew around 19.5 percent in cases. Black people in Dane County grew by 14.0 percent as Asian people grew by 11.5 percent since October 26.
Dane County’s seven-day average for cases is now at 242 per day while the 14-day average is at 228 cases per day. The Forward Dane reopening plan required that the daily new case average fall below 20 before moving to the next phase.
The most updated data on positive test percentage for a single day is for November 1, which is one percent, while the positive test percentage for October 31 has increased to 3.3 percent. The positive percentage for October 30 has also increased and is now at 6.2 percent and October 29 has grown to 6.2. 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. The break down for each day can be found on Public Health of Madison and Dane County’s Dashboard.
UW reported two new COVID-19 cases, with 44 new cases – 41 of whom were students and three that were employees from on campus testing. The seven-day percent positive rate has increased for UW to 1.9 percent while the seven-day average of cases has risen to 31.3 cases per day. In total, according to UW’s Smart Restart Dashboard, there are now 3397 students who have tested positive and 198 employees for a total of 3,551 cumulative cases for UW students and staff.
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.
