WI DHS update 052320

From the Wisconsin Department of Health Services web site, updated each day at 2:00 pm:

Wisconsin

  • Wisconsin reported cumulative totals of 179,329 negative results and 14,877 positive results, indicating a cumulative total of 194,206 people have been tested.
  • Yesterday, Wisconsin reported cumulative totals of 172,703 negative results and 14,396 positive results, indicating a cumulative total of 187,099 people have been tested.
  • The difference in the cumulative total numbers indicates 7,107 more people were tested for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.
  • The difference in the cumulative positive totals indicates 481 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, on a par with the median number of new cases reported in the past seven days (481).
  • Wisconsin reported a cumulative total of 507 deaths attributed to COVID-19 yesterday, and a cumulative total of 496 deaths attributed to COVID-19 the day before.
  • The difference in the cumulative total number of deaths indicates 11 new deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, 2 more than the median number of deaths reported in the past seven days (9).
  • The cumulative total number of people tested in the state (194,206) is 3.34% of Wisconsin’s 2019 population of 5,822,000.
  • The cumulative total number of positive cases in the state (14,877) is 7.66% of all people tested.
  • The cumulative total number of deaths in the state attributed to COVID-19 (507) is 3.41% of all positive cases.

The trends in Wisconsin indicate more positive cases as more testing has been done, while deaths remain relatively flat:

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