On the final record day of the escalation of the coronavirus crisis in Wisconsin, the state reported more than 5,700 new ones and surpassed 50,000 assets.
When the electorate cast its vote Tuesday in an election, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 5,771 new cases and 52 deaths, bringing the death toll to 2,102.
The past record for new cases reported in a day, around 5,200, set on Saturday. Before last week, the state had never reported more than 5,000 cases per day.
Tuesday’s count raises the average number of new instances in the last seven days to a new maximum of 4536, more than six times the seven-day average recorded two months ago, when instances in the state began to increase.
The average positivity rate of 30. 8% also broke a new record on Tuesday: the measure examines the first positive tests in the last seven days; two months ago, the average positivity rate of 5. 2%.
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The explosion in instances since early September has led to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths from the virus, and fitness experts expect the scenario to get worse as the instances show no symptoms of slowdown.
The daily average of deaths over more than seven days is 36; two months ago, it was five.
Menominee County reported Tuesday of its first death from the virus, making Pepin County, southwest of Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s last county, a coronavirus death.
Hospital capacity is depleting as beds are filled with COVID-19 patients, and state hospitals report critical shortages as fitness personnel exposed to the virus in the network are forced to quarantine at home.
On Tuesday, a record 1,714 more people were hospitalized with the virus in the state, adding 347 patients in extensive care units. The number of actively hospitalized patients in Wisconsin increased to nearly 330 last week.
State Fair Park Field Hospital treated seven patients on Tuesday, compared to thirteen the previous day, depending on the state. Known as a care center of choice, it is intended to lose the bed area in hospitals and treat coronavirus patients who want a decreased hospital care point.
And 30 minutes after the coronavirus control site in Miller Park opened Tuesday, other people were told there was a 2. 5-hour wait. The site has had long queues since it opened last week, and Tuesday is the only loose control site in town. while Northwest and Southside health centers were closed by election.
Last month, the state’s worst pandemic, with one in 60 Wisconsin residents tested positive for COVID-19 in October. Approximately 33% of Wisconsin citizens who died of COVID-19 did so in October.
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More than 2. 1 million others have been tested for the virus state-round. Of the 238067 Wisconsin residents who tested positive:
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