NOTE: WFRV Local 5 will update this story once a day following the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ daily official update. This story will not include new cases announced by individual counties.
SUNDAY 8/2/2020 1:55 p.m.
(WFRV) – Wisconsin recorded its first coronavirus case in February 2020. Since then, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services has reported 54,924 total positive coronavirus test results in the state and 948 total COVID-19 deaths.
Of Wisconsin’s total 54,924 COVID-19 cases, 9,994 are active, according to DHS.
Of the 9,643 test results available today, 9.6 percent of the COVID-19 tests were positive. Yesterday, 7.1 percent of the tests came back positive. In total, DHS says 904,666 negative COVID-19 tests have been reported in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s hospitals are reporting a total of 268 patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Of those, 100 are in an ICU. A total of 2,383 hospital beds, or 21 percent of the state’s total beds, are immediately available to patients.
In Wisconsin, 4,717, or 9 percent, of those who tested positive for COVID-19 have been hospitalized.
DHS reported 948 total COVID-19 deaths. Of Wisconsinites who have tested positive for coronavirus, 1.7 percent have died.
DHS reports all Northeast Wisconsin counties are seeing high COVID-19 activity levels. The activity level is determined by combining the case burden and trajectory indicators.
| Today’s Total | Yesterday’s | |
| Total cases | 54,924 | 54,002 (+922) |
| Active cases | 9,994 (18.2%) | 9,753 |
| Recovered cases | 43,964 (80.1%) | 43,284 |
| Negative cases | 904,666 | 895,945 |
| Patients hospitalized | 268 | 279 (-11) |
| COVID-19 patients in ICU | 100 | 88 (+12) |
| Hospital beds available | 2,383 (21%) | 2,214 |
| Ever hospitalized | 4,717 (8.6%) | 4,681 |
| COVID-19 deaths | 948 (1.7%) | 947 (+1) |
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| Wisconsin County | Positive as of 8/2/2020 | Negative as of 8/2/2020 | Deaths as of 8/2/2020 | Rate (positive cases per 100,000 people) as of 8/2/2020 | Case fatality percentage (percent of cases who died) as of 8/2/2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 73 | 2,422 | 2 | 363.7 | 3% |
| Ashland | 20 | 1,633 | 0 | 127.3 | 0% |
| Barron | 255 | 5,838 | 3 | 563.5 | 1% |
| Bayfield | 20 | 1,799 | 1 | 133.4 | 5% |
| Brown | 4,008 | 45,826 | 51 | 1542.8 | 1% |
| Buffalo | 41 | 1,611 | 2 | 311.4 | 5% |
| Burnett | 14 | 1,483 | 1 | 91.8 | 7% |
| Calumet | 256 | 5,563 | 2 | 514.0 | 1% |
| Chippewa | 209 | 9,877 | 0 | 328.4 | 0% |
| Clark | 174 | 3,514 | 7 | 504.5 | 4% |
| Columbia | 224 | 9,157 | 1 | 393.3 | 0% |
| Crawford | 62 | 3,235 | 0 | 380.6 | 0% |
| Dane | 4,198 | 122,434 | 37 | 792.3 | 1% |
| Dodge | 702 | 15,271 | 5 | 799.8 | 1% |
| Door | 85 | 4,185 | 3 | 309.8 | 4% |
| Douglas | 133 | 4,395 | 0 | 306.4 | 0% |
| Dunn | 105 | 5,362 | 0 | 236.0 | 0% |
| Eau Claire | 503 | 13,731 | 3 | 488.4 | 1% |
| Florence | 7 | 606 | 0 | 161.4 | 0% |
| Fond du Lac | 560 | 14,020 | 6 | 547.3 | 1% |
| Forest | 59 | 905 | 4 | 654.2 | 7% |
| Grant | 328 | 8,613 | 14 | 632.9 | 4% |
| Green | 130 | 4,518 | 1 | 352.6 | 1% |
| Green Lake | 52 | 2,414 | 0 | 277.2 | 0% |
| Iowa | 63 | 3,376 | 0 | 266.7 | 0% |
| Iron | 72 | 971 | 1 | 1259.8 | 1% |
| Jackson | 48 | 5,126 | 1 | 234.1 | 2% |
| Jefferson | 556 | 12,457 | 5 | 656.8 | 1% |
| Juneau | 129 | 5,884 | 1 | 488.3 | 1% |
| Kenosha | 2,474 | 26,961 | 53 | 1469.7 | 2% |
| Kewaunee | 110 | 2,405 | 2 | 540.3 | 2% |
| La Crosse | 821 | 16,650 | 1 | 696.6 | 0% |
| Lafayette | 108 | 2,165 | 0 | 645.4 | 0% |
| Langlade | 48 | 2,092 | 1 | 250.5 | 2% |
| Lincoln | 63 | 3,072 | 0 | 226.2 | 0% |
| Manitowoc | 301 | 9,853 | 1 | 379.1 | 0% |
| Marathon | 578 | 11,867 | 6 | 427.3 | 1% |
| Marinette | 315 | 6,736 | 3 | 777.1 | 1% |
| Marquette | 71 | 1,929 | 1 | 466.9 | 1% |
| Menominee | 19 | 1,653 | 0 | 414.9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee | 19,727 | 173,362 | 446 | 2067.4 | 2% |
| Monroe | 222 | 7,003 | 1 | 487.9 | 0% |
| Oconto | 183 | 5,617 | 0 | 487.3 | 0% |
| Oneida | 88 | 4,318 | 0 | 249.0 | 0% |
| Outagamie | 1,102 | 24,042 | 13 | 596.5 | 1% |
| Ozaukee | 568 | 12,134 | 17 | 643.4 | 3% |
| Pepin | 40 | 956 | 0 | 550.8 | 0% |
| Pierce | 170 | 4,489 | 0 | 408.6 | 0% |
| Polk | 120 | 5,669 | 2 | 276.8 | 2% |
| Portage | 354 | 8,438 | 0 | 501.4 | 0% |
| Price | 22 | 1,767 | 0 | 163.1 | 0% |
| Racine | 3,245 | 42,040 | 76 | 1660.7 | 2% |
| Richland | 32 | 2,657 | 4 | 182.5 | 13% |
| Rock | 1,366 | 23,532 | 26 | 844.4 | 2% |
| Rusk | 16 | 1,240 | 1 | 112.8 | 6% |
| Sauk | 386 | 11,998 | 3 | 607.0 | 1% |
| Sawyer | 37 | 2,569 | 0 | 226.0 | 0% |
| Shawano | 158 | 5,985 | 0 | 385.3 | 0% |
| Sheboygan | 609 | 15,165 | 5 | 528.6 | 1% |
| St. Croix | 447 | 10,151 | 2 | 508.4 | 0% |
| Taylor | 52 | 1,703 | 0 | 255.5 | 0% |
| Trempealeau | 307 | 4,761 | 2 | 1042.9 | 1% |
| Vernon | 58 | 3,788 | 0 | 190.1 | 0% |
| Vilas | 38 | 2,167 | 0 | 176.0 | 0% |
| Walworth | 1,237 | 14,936 | 21 | 1200.8 | 2% |
| Washburn | 34 | 1,763 | 0 | 216.7 | 0% |
| Washington | 880 | 15,754 | 22 | 654.1 | 3% |
| Waukesha | 3,663 | 48,577 | 55 | 918.3 | 2% |
| Waupaca | 370 | 7,388 | 15 | 719.2 | 4% |
| Waushara | 106 | 5,134 | 0 | 439.5 | 0% |
| Winnebago | 1,055 | 25,124 | 17 | 620.9 | 2% |
| Wood | 238 | 8,830 | 1 | 324.8 | 0% |
| Total | 54,924 | 904,666 | 948 | 950.5 | 2% |
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