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PHMDC reports 101 new cases, rise in current hospitalizations

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Public Health of Madison and Dane County reported 101 new COVID cases today, bringing the county’s cumulative total to 37,958. With today’s updated numbers, Dane County has seen an increase of 0.9 percent in cases for the past two weeks. The area’s current recovered case count is now at 35,694 while active cases dropped to 1,889 or five percent of current cases, according to DHS’ update at 2 pm yesterday. Out of all cases in Dane County, about 51 percent of cases were in Madison while 49 percent have been outside of Madison.

After a drop in current hospitalizations of 34 patients reported yesterday, PHMDC reported another 16 patients with COVID-19 in area hospitals today. This includes people who reside in and out of Dane County. Of the 68 people currently hospitalized, 19 are in the ICU.

Dane County’s total death toll from COVID-19 remained at 251 this morning, after seven more fatalities were reported yesterday. Currently, there are 35 deaths in total reported for the month of January.

Testing has increased as UW students have returned and the campus is requiring regular testing of all students. This could lead to an increase in total positive cases, as well as a decrease in positive test rate.

As of yesterday’s dashboard update on UW’s website, UW is averaging 4,240 tests a day for the past seven days for on-campus testing with an average of 23 cases per day for the same time frame for both off and on campus testing. For the past seven days, cases have grown about 73 percent while testing on campus has grown about 77.3 percent. Their positivity rate remained at 0.5 percent based on on-campus testing only for both UW students and staff for the past 7 days.

For Dane County, the 14-day positive test rate as of January 27 is now at 2.4 while the seven-day rate remains at 2.1. These rates do not include preliminary data from the past four days as that data continues to adjust as more tests are attributed.

For Dane County residents, the number of people ever hospitalized for COVID-19 has grown to 1,148

According to DHS’ website, as of January 30, preliminary information indicates that Dane County has administered 68,824 doses of vaccine, the most of any county in Wisconsin. Information about the number of adults that have completed their vaccinations by county is not yet available.

Madison365 has updated our weekly map of COVID-19 cases in the county by census tract.

We will have an update later this afternoon for statewide numbers after 3 pm.