The director of the preventive medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says, “Of course the curve has not flattened.”
Epidemiologist Patrick Remington can point to a record 48 deaths from COVID-19-influenced medical issues when he says the virus isn’t under control.
Wisconsin averaged 21 deaths-a-day over the last week, a mark more than four times as high as it was a month ago.
The daily average of new cases has nearly doubled in the last month to 3,444. That’s five times higher than Wisconsin’s average two months ago.
Nearly 23 percent of the tests conducted in the last seven days have had positive results for COVID-19.
Wisconsin COVID-19 Statistics
Positive test results: 4,205 (182,687)
Negative test results: 5,681 (1,718,564)
Patients hospitalized: 167 (9,704)
Deaths: 48 (1,681)
