by Kevin Zimmermann
SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) – Sheboygan County had more persons recover than had positive test returns on Thursday’s update from the County DPH. The 13 new cases raise the running total here to 1,553, while the 18 recoveries lowered the active case load to 131. 13 of those are currently hospitalized, stable since Wednesday. The positive test return rate in Sheboygan County fell to 3.2%, continuing a decline that began after Tuesday’s high of 8.8%.
The daily update from the County Division of Public Health included a link to the case numbers mapped by county. Accessing that map shows Ozaukee, Washington and Fond du Lac Counties sharing similar case totals of between 1,000 and 5,000 cases, while Manitowoc and Calumet Counties have yet to accumulate 1,000 cases each.
Thursday’s weekly report of facility-wide investigations showed 20 in all. Five of those were at long-term care facilities, and four of those were identified as:
Pine Haven-Haven Drive Campus
Rocky Knoll
Sunny Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Meadowview Manor in Sheboygan
Twelve education settings in the county now host active investigations. 11 of those are:
Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah High School
Grant Elementary School (Sheboygan)
Howards Grove High School
Kohler High School
Longfellow Elementary (Sheboygan)
Parkview Elementary (Plymouth)
Sheboygan Falls Elementary
Sheboygan Falls Middle School
Sheboygan Falls High School
Sheboygan North High School
Sheboygan South High School
In addition, one group housing facility is being investigated, and two non-health care workplaces are also undergoing contact tracing and testing to determine possible spread of COVID-19.
Wisconsin’s positive test return rate leaped from 13.1% on Wednesday to 18% as of Thursday’s update from the Sate DHS. The 7-day average of that metric, which experts would like to see nearer 5%, was 17%. 2,392 cases were added to the state’s COVID-19 running total, which has now reached 108,324. 6 more persons have died of the disease in Wisconsin since Wednesday, upping the death toll to 1,265. Another 76 persons were admitted for hospital treatment of COVID-19, which puts the patient count at 509 confirmed cases. Another 140 are hospitalized and awaiting test results. COVID-19 patients now occupy 140 ICU beds, and 362 persons require ventilators for life support.
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