COVID-19 hospitalizations, average daily case counts tick up in Wisconsin

Some of Wisconsin’s COVID-19 metrics – including hospitalizations and the weekly average for daily new cases – have been trending up in recent days.

As of Sunday, there were an average of 2,244 daily new cases of COVID-19 over the past seven days. That was up from 1,948 a week ago on Dec. 27.

So far, there have been 486,531 cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths was 26 on Sunday, down from 39 a week ago.

There were a total of 4,875 COVID-19-related deaths as of Sunday.

According to the Department of Health Services, 2,849,706 Wisconsinites have been tested for the disease. DHS considers 26,670 cases active.

The seven-day positivity rate by person was 31 percent on Saturday, up from 24.3 percent on Dec. 26.

The rate by test was 10.8 percent, up from 8.1 percent on Dec. 26.

According to the Wisconsin Hospital Association, there were 1,069 total COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the state on Sunday, up 51 from Saturday and down 19 from the same point last week.

WHA’s data show 225 in intensive care units, down five from Saturday and a decrease of 14 from a week ago.

There were no patients at the surge facility in West Allis on Sunday morning. The facility also wasn’t treating anyone on an outpatient basis with bamlanivimab infusion therapy, an antibody treatment for COVID-19.

As of last Tuesday, the most recent date with available data on the DHS website, 47,157 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Wisconsin. Pfizer vaccines accounted for 40,850 of those, while Moderna made up 6,306 doses.

A total of 265,575 doses were allocated to the state, and 156,875 had been shipped as of Tuesday.