The Department of Health Services said Wednesday that the first patient has been admitted to the surge facility in West Allis. The state agency also reported Wisconsin’s highest daily COVID-19 death toll.
The one patient was being cared for as of 11 a.m.
DHS reported 48 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, the highest single-day amount yet. The total number of deaths was 1,681.
There were 4,205 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 182,687. DHS officials have said that positive case counts may be inflated this week due to a backlog of cases that accumulated during an upgrade to the state’s disease surveillance system this weekend.
They’ve encouraged looking at seven-day averages for a more accurate representation. The seven-day average for new daily cases was 3,444. The seven-day average for daily new deaths was 21.
An additional 9,886 people have been tested, for a total 1,901,251.
The seven-day positivity rate per person was 22.6 percent as of Tuesday, and the seven-day positive rate per test was 12.3 percent.