Public Health of Madison and Dane County reported 272 new cases this morning which gives the county a new cumulative total of 29,699. Recovered cases grew to 25,671 as active cases dropped down to 3,920 or 13.2 percent of all cases.
Today, the number of people currently hospitalized in Dane County — both Dane County residents and people from neighboring counties — dropped from 171 to 167. Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the ICU also dropped from yesterday’s reported 47 to 45.
For Dane County residents, the number of people ever hospitalized for COVID-19 has increased by double digits this morning from 880 to 884. Of those four new hospitalizations, one person was in their 20s, one in their 40s, one in their 60s and one in their 70s.
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 23.6 percent as adults in their 70s growing by 18.3 percent and adults in their 60s by 16.1 percent since November 26.
Hospitalizations also continue to significantly impact our communities of color with those who are Asian has grown by 18.7 percent while those who are Black have grown 15.5 percent. For those who identify as Hispanic/Latinx in our community have grown 8.5 percent for the past two weeks.
The 272 new cases were attributed to dates earlier this week with 210 added to December 9 while 50 were added to December 8, increasing that day’s total to 145. The rest of the cases were distributed among dates earlier this week. The 7 day average of cases per day is now at 200.6 while the 14 day average is now at 234.6.
The percentage of the positive for these days also adjusted with December 9 reportedly at 4.9 while December 8 has increased to 3.9. For December 7, the percentage of positive has adjusted to 5.0 and December 6 has updated to 7.6. The 7 day average is now at 5.5 while the 14 day average as of December 8 is at 6.5.
Age groups 0-69 all grew by double digits today with those in their 20s growing by 71 or 27.2 percent of all new cases reported. Those aged 10-19 grew by 46, followed by those in their 20s with 39, adults in their 50s by 32 and those in their 40s closely behind with 31. Adults in their 50s grew by 32, 60s by 25, children under 10 by 12 and adult sin their 70s grew by 10. In single digit increases, adults in their 80s and 90s both grew by three.
When looking at our communities of color, those who are Hispanic/Latinx grew by 44 new cases or 16.2 percent of all new cases broken down by ethnicity. The continue to make up 15.6 percent of all cases. Black people in our community grew by 21 new cases or 7.7 percent of new reported cases and continue to make up 7.8 percent of all cases ever in Dane County. Asian people in our community grew by eight new cases and make up 3.5 percent of all cases while American Indian/Alaskan Native grew by two new cases and are .8 percent of all cases in Dane County..
Looking at growth over the past two weeks, infection in those in their 90s grew by 26.3 percent as adults in their 80s grew by 17.1 percent. Adults in their 70s grew by 16.4 percent and adults in their 60s by 14.3 since November 26.
In terms of case growth for the past two weeks for our communities of color, cases among Black people have grown by 13.9 percent while Asian people have grown by 11.8 percent. Those who identify as Hispanic/Latinx have grown 12.0 percent while American Indians in our community have grown by 11.0 percent during this same period.
UW reported yesterday 13 positive cases in on-campus testing from students and two positive cases in on-campus testing for UW staff. These new positives have been attributed to December 8. In total, there are 4,695 positive students (including one additional positives from off-campus testing attributed to earlier dates in the data) and 467 positive employees (including four additional positives from off-campus testing attributed to earlier dates) with a cumulative total of 5,182 cases for UW since tracking began for campus. The 7 day average of cases is now at 18.3 for both students and staff in on and off campus testing as of December 8. 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.
