Current Statistics
Published December 6, 2021
The Wisconsin COVID-19 situation deteriorated this past week with rising case counts and hospitalizations, and more hospitals at maximum capacity, generally due to staffing limitations. Cases are rising in the majority of states. The top four states, in terms of cases per population, are New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
All Wisconsin counties remain in the very high or critically high level categories of COVID-19 case activity. The number of COVID patients in Wisconsin hospitals increased in the past week. The percent of COVID tests positive rose to 13.1%. Deaths increased.
Numbers are taken from websites for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Wisconsin Hospital Association, the CDC, and The New York Times.
Wisconsin's 7 day average of new cases increased over the past 2 weeks, 3004 on 11/21 and 3548 on 12/5, an 18% increase.
Wisconsin hospitalizations for COVID increased over the past two weeks, 1242 inpatients on 11/21 and 1457 on 12/5, a 17% increase. Currently, 393 of the hospitalized patients are in the ICU, an increase of 39 from last week. Today the 13 hospital Fox Valley region reported immediate availability of one ICU bed and one medical-surgical bed.
The 7 day average of daily deaths due to COVID increased to 21.
For comparison with other states, the new case number is converted to cases per million. Comparing the 7 day average number of new cases in the past week:
Wisconsin: 609
Michigan: 783
Minnesota: 825
Iowa: 458
Illinois: 431
Florida: 75
United States: 329
All Wisconsin counties remain in the very high or critically high level categories of COVID-19 case activity. The number of COVID patients in Wisconsin hospitals increased in the past week. The percent of COVID tests positive rose to 13.1%. Deaths increased.
Numbers are taken from websites for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Wisconsin Hospital Association, the CDC, and The New York Times.
Wisconsin's 7 day average of new cases increased over the past 2 weeks, 3004 on 11/21 and 3548 on 12/5, an 18% increase.
Wisconsin hospitalizations for COVID increased over the past two weeks, 1242 inpatients on 11/21 and 1457 on 12/5, a 17% increase. Currently, 393 of the hospitalized patients are in the ICU, an increase of 39 from last week. Today the 13 hospital Fox Valley region reported immediate availability of one ICU bed and one medical-surgical bed.
The 7 day average of daily deaths due to COVID increased to 21.
For comparison with other states, the new case number is converted to cases per million. Comparing the 7 day average number of new cases in the past week:
Wisconsin: 609
Michigan: 783
Minnesota: 825
Iowa: 458
Illinois: 431
Florida: 75
United States: 329