7 Wisconsin counties hit High levels of COVID-19 activity

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Seven Wisconsin counties at the moment are registering Excessive ranges of COVID-19 exercise as increasingly different counties transfer from Low to Medium standing.

Lower than a month in the past, the map monitoring COVID-19 Group Ranges on the Division of Well being Companies web site was fully inexperienced, reflecting the actual fact the CDC thought of each one of many counties fell into the low class.

Since then, counties began turning yellow as they handed into Medium ranges. On Friday, Wisconsin noticed its first Orange, i.e. Excessive, counties since DHS switched to reporting CDC’s neighborhood ranges relatively than its personal classification system. Not one of the septet have been in south-central Wisconsin.

Nonetheless, among the many counties within the area, the quantity which can be coloured yellow has elevated to eight. One of many counties seeing worsening ranges on the CDC, Rock Co., launched an announcement Thursday noting the change.

In it, the Rock Co. Public Well being Division acknowledged the growing variety of instances, which it pegged at 275 per 100,000 residents, however identified that hospitalization and mattress capability has not modified considerably. It attributed that to the counties excessive vaccination fee.

“We’re cautiously optimistic that the extent of immunity we presently have locally will forestall among the critical sicknesses that we have now skilled in prior COVID-19 surges,” Well being Officer Katrina Harwood stated, including that surges in hospitalizations are inclined to have an roughly two-week lag from case will increase.

The worsening state of the CDC’s neighborhood ranges map can also be mirrored within the arduous numbers being reported every day. DHS reported tallying 2,517 instances on Friday, the third highest single-day whole previously three months. The one two days surpassing this newest whole have been the previous two days.

With Friday’s whole mixed with Wednesday and Thursday’s highs, the seven-day rolling common edged up once more, to 2,095 instances per day over the previous week. That determine, too, has not been seen since mid-February, when the state was coming off a record-setting January powered by the primary Omicron variant. The present totals, whereas far above months are nonetheless far decrease than the surge firstly of the 12 months.

The one dying reported by DHS on Friday allowed that seven-day rolling common to slide to a few per day. In all, well being officers have recorded 12,954 deaths in Wisconsin from COVID-19 or problems associated to the virus for the reason that pandemic started.

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