Dane County reported 627 new coronavirus cases Thursday morning, pushing the total cases since the pandemic began to well past 20,000. Our new total this morning for all cases is 20,522 with 15,604 cases recovered while 4,861 cases are considered active, or 23.7 percent of all cases. On Tuesday evening, Governor Tony Evers’ addressed Wisconsin residents to stay home the new few weeks as the state attempts to manage the current surge.
Dane County’s number of deaths from COVID-19 also rose by one today to 57. The person who passed was a black male in his 60s, according to the updated data.
Dane County has seen a 76.3 percent increase in total cases in the past 30 days, since October 13, when the county had only confirmed 11,643 total cases ever. On Tuesday morning, Public Health of Madison and Dane County reported that our seven-day average was approaching 400 cases per day. With today’s update, the county’s 7 day average is at 407 cases per day while our 14 day average as of November 11 is at 370.6 cases per day.
As reported by Madison365, Dane County officials reiterated on Monday afternoon that the largest share of coronavirus spread happens in small private gatherings among family and friends. As many as 35 percent of those infected reported attending such a gathering.
Today, the number of people currently hospitalized in Dane County — both Dane County residents and people from neighboring counties — rose to a 160, a seventh consecutive record high. Of those 160, 41 are currently in the ICU. The ICU population has remained steady since Monday.
For Dane County residents the number of people ever hospitalized for COVID-19 has grown from yesterday’s reported 627 to 642. The 15 newly hospitalized people include five people in their 60s, three in their 50s, two in their 70s and one child under 10, one person aged 10-19, one in their 20s and one person in their 80s and 90s. Of those 15 new hospitalizations, four people are Black, and two are Hispanic.
The increasing number of hospitalizations for residents in the County have grown significantly among certain groups and ages as cases have surged. Madison365 has graphed that growth from information gathered daily from PHMDC’s data which reflects that those in their 80s have grown 36.3 percent since October 29 while those in their 70s have grown 22.1 percent.
Hospitalizations also continue to significantly impact our communities of color as those who identify as American Indian have grown 25 percent in Dane County. Hospitalizations for those who are Black in our community have grown 17.6 percent, 13.6 percent for those who are Asian and 13 percent for those who are Hispanic since October 29.
Of the 642 new cases reported today, 330 were attributed to November 11 while an additional 216 cases were attributed to November 10, increasing that day’s positive test count to 377. There were also 46 more cases were added to November 9, increasing that day’s total to 516 – making this date the second highest single day of positives cases processed. November 6 continues to hold the record for the highest single day of positives processed with 522 positive cases attributed to that day.
All age groups grew at least by double digits with those in their 20s with 138 new cases or 22 percent of today’s new cases followed by those aged 10-19 with 105 new cases or 29.4 percent. Adults in their 30s saw 95 new cases while dults in their 40s grew by 93, those in their 50s by 69 and adults in their 60s by 50. Adults in their 70s reported 28 new cases while children aged 0-9 grew by 22 and adults in their 80s grew by 16. Adults in their 90s also grew by double digits today with 11 new cases.
Important to note this morning is the contiuining growth amongst our communities of color. This morning, according to the data, Hispanic people in our community grew by triple digits with an increase of 101 new cases reported. Hispanic people make up 6 percent of the population in Dane County but now encompass about 14.6 percent of all cases. Black people, who also make up 6 percent of our community, grew by 56 new cases. They make up 7 percent of all cases. Asian people grew by 4 new cases and now make up 3.3 percent of all cases while Native Americans in our communitiy by four additional cases today and now make up .74 percent of all cases.
Looking at growth over the past two weeks, adults in their 90s continue to see the largest growth with a 54.2 percent increase in cases since October 29 while adults in their 80s have grown 40.2 percent. Children aged 0-9 grew by 37.2 percent for the past two weeks as adults in their 70s grew by 34.8 percent since October 29.
In terms of case growth for the past two weeks for our communities of color, American Indians in Dane County saw the most growth with a 35.1 percent increase while Hispanics in the county saw an increase of 34.0 percent. Black people grew about 27.2 percent in cases since October 29 as the Asian community grew 26.6 percent.
The most updated data on positive test percentage for a single day is for November 11 at 7.5 percent while the positive test percentage for November 10 has grown to 7.3 percent. The positive percentage for November 9 has also seen an increase from 9.0 to 9.7 while November 8 is now at 9.5.. 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.
Yesterday at 2 pm, UW’s COVID-19 dashboard update included 52 new COVID-19 positive cases with 51 from on campus testing and 1 from off campus testing. Of those 52, eight were employees and 44 were students. The seven-day percent positive rate for students has grown to 2.9 percent while the seven-day average of all positive cases has grown to 50.6 cases per day. In total, according to UW’s Smart Restart Dashboard, there are now 3,804 students who have tested positive and 302 employees for a total of 4,106 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.
