MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – The downward trend of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin appears to have stalled for the past few days.The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the 7-day average of new cases went up after Friday’s report. The rolling average was 1,427, then an insignificant drop to 1,425, then down a little more to 1,416 on Monday. The positivity rate — the percentage of COVID-19 tests in the past week that were positive — has also leveled off, bouncing between 11.8% and 11.6%.The higher 7-day average in new cases can be blamed on one day: 1,744 new cases were confirmed the day after the state’s last report. That was followed by much lower numbers of 1,115 and 827 cases, which repeats a typical pattern of lower numbers over a weekend. We list county-by-county numbers later in this article. Since Friday, Winnebago County had more than 100 new cases while Menominee County reported none.Fond du Lac County passed 31,000 total cases (31,050), which equals about 22.1% of its population testing positive at least once during the pandemic. The DHS says 262 of them died, which is a death rate of 1.13% compared to the state’s average of 0.87%.Statewide, only one death was submitted to the DHS since Friday’s report. The per …
COVID-19 in Wisconsin: New cases flatten – WBAY
