by Kevin Zimmermann
SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) – Another resident of Sheboygan County has died of COVID-19, raising the death toll here to 20. The person was in their 70s, one of seven in that age category. Six victims were 80 or older, four were in their 60s, two were in their 50s and one was in their 40s.
As of Wednesday’s update from the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health, 94 more persons received positive test results since Tuesday. 21 of those are inmates of Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution. Another 559 tested negative, yielding a positive return rate of about 14.4%. Active cases in the county, which exclude KMCI for record-keeping purposes, went up by 22 to 313, and 9 of those are hospitalized. Another 50 persons recovered from COVID-19. KMCI’s total case figure is now 572, while the county total is 2,528.
The County DPH, in its daily update, included a link to information that helps explain the Sheboygan County Alert that was released Tuesday, and explains how data from KMCI plays into the overall figures and how it impacts the county’s ability and approach to control the spread of the coronavirus. To that end, County DPH noted that the 300 staff members and many others that spend time working at KMCI also live, work and play in Sheboygan County and surrounding communities. Thus, the outbreak there directly affects the risk to the community at large and does not remain isolated within KMCI.
Also, that a “Very High” Activity Level was considered in issuing the alert was explained as defined by the Harvard’s Global Health Institute Model for measuring community spread; namely that a case rate of greater than 350 per 100,000 (average of 25 cases a day over a 14-day period) would put a community into the “Very High Activity” category. Even excluding KMCI, Sheboygan County averaged 34 new active cases a day over the past two weeks, with a case rate of 420 per 100,000. Additional data is also contained in the release available through the DPH at sheboygancounty.com.
Wisconsin received 13,507 test returns since Tuesday. 2,319 – or 17% – were positive, down slightly from yesterday’s 17.4%, but in terms of new cases, the second consecutive day of increases from the previous day. 16 more persons died of COVID-19 in the past 24-hours, putting the death toll in the state at 1,415. Another 141 – a new daily high – were hospitalized for the disease. Data of Total COVID Patients, ICU numbers, the number of those hospitalized but awaiting test results and the number of patients requiring ventilators had not been updated at the time of this publication.
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