As of May 4 at 4:15 p.m., Pierce County registered 10 confirmed cases of COVID19 taken cumulatively since the first confirmed case in the county early in March. Meanwhile, 486 tests came back negative, with zero deaths from the virus. Pepin had zero confirmed cases with 161 negative tests as of May 4, while St. Croix County to the north had 20 confirmed cases total with 649 tests returning negative and zero deaths. In nearby Dunn County there had been 12 confirmed cases of COVID19 as of this past Monday, with 1,074 tests coming back negative and zero deaths.

For Minnesota just across the border, Dakota County registered 215 cases with 11 deaths as of this past Monday, while Goodhue County had 23 confirmed cases and zero deaths.

For the picture within the State of Wisconsin more generally, counties that had registered more than fifty confirmed cases from February 5 onward when the first case was confirmed in Dane County are as follows.

In Milwaukee County there were 3,044 positive cases with a corresponding 16,788 negative test results, and a total of 195 deaths, up from 186 deaths on Friday. In Brown County there were 1,448 positive tests results compared with 1,175 three days earlier, balanced against a total of 3,707 negative tests, with six deaths being recorded, one over the weekend. In Kenosha County as of May 4, there were 546 confirmed cases of COVID-19, up from 477 on Friday, with a corresponding 2,535 tests coming back negative for the virus, and 14 deaths total. For Dane County meanwhile there were 441 positive test results and 11,784 negative, with 22 deaths. For Racine County there were 457 confirmed cases of COVID-19, compared with 393 on Friday, May 1 and 2,636 negative test results and 14 deaths, while in Waukesha County there were 367 positive test results and 4,219 testing negative for the virus, with 20 deaths. For Rock County there were 289 confirmed cases compared with 222 three days earlier, and 2,446 test results coming back negative as of May 4, with and a total of seven deaths.

Meanwhile in Walworth County the count was up over the weekend from 171 on Friday to 211 positive test results on Monday, with 1,008 negative tests as of May 4 and eight deaths. Meanwhile, Washington County registered 104 confirmed cases on Monday compared to 99 the previous Friday, with four deaths total, and 1,848 tests coming back negative. In Ozaukee County there were 94 confirmed cases compared to 993 negative tests and nine deaths. In Fond du Lac County there were 75 confirmed cases as of Monday with 1,503 tests coming back negative and three deaths total, while in Outagamie County there were 73 confirmed cases to 1,560 negative test results and two deaths. For Winnebago County there were 72 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of this past Monday, a jump of ten confirmed cases over three days, with 1,414 negative for the virus and one death, and in Sauk County there were 66 confirmed cases as of Monday with 1,040 total negative results, and three deaths, while in Sheyboygan County there were 53 confirmed cases of the virus, with 936 negative test results and two deaths. Statewide in total as of Monday May 4 there were 8,234 confirmed cases of OCVID19 and 340 deaths from the virus, with an additional 80,467 tests being reported as negative. As of May 4 at 10 a.m., the State of Wisconsin had a stockpile of 11,347 tests for COVID-19, with 51 labs currently performing testing.

It is important to note in this rundown of the numbers that rates are often more important to determining the rapidity of virus spread, and that negative test results mentioned only include those which were reported electronically to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, In addition, many mild cases of COVID-19 may go unreported and undiagnosed, and a person does not need to show symptoms in order to spread the virus. In terms of mortality from COVID-19 the counties of Adams, Bayfield, Buffalo, Clark, Door, Grant, Iron, Marquette, Ozaukee, Richland, and Waupaca all registered at or above a rate of 10 percent death rate from the virus as of Monday. Thirteen percent of those with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin as of May 4 were healthcare workers, a broad category that includes “nurses, physicians, surgeons, physician’s assistants, healthcare support staff, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, dentists and other dental health care workers, and pharmacists,” per the Wisconsin Health Department website. In addition, just under a majority of those with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were NOT in a group housing facility (44 percent), with an additional 46 percent listed as “unknown.”

Meanwhile and in terms of gender, the virus was found equally above men and women at an equally split percentage rate of 50/50 across genders, having previously been more prevalent among women than men at 51 to 49 percent of confirmed cases, while men were more likely than women to die of the virus, at 39 percent for women to 61 percent for men respectively.

In terms of statistics by racial grouping, COVID-19 registered more cases amongst white than black Americans, with 3,866 confirmed cases in the white population (a 52 percent positive test result rate) to 1,667 in Wisconsin’s African-American community (a 22 percent positive test result rate), with whites accounting for 61 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the state and African-Americans for 32 percent. No other defined racial group registered a mortality rate higher nine percent (multiple or other races), although “unknown” registered 13 percent.

For grouping by ethnic background, 60 percent of confirmed cases were in people not of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, while 27 percent were Hispanic or Latino and 13 percent were unknown.

As a caution it should be noted that these numbers can be affected by the State of Wisconsin’s population diversity overall (86.2 “white” as of the 2010 census) and that the corresponding May 4 Situation Report” of the World Health Organization (WHO) at www.who.int all countries worldwide with the exceptions of Turkmenistan, Lesotho and North Korea had reported cases of COVID-19, with the emphasis being on “reported.” In the case of North Korea, there is no information at the WHO website for health expenditure per capita, much less statistics on coronavirus. North Korea is a hermit kingdom, for which much is relied upon from inside. Meanwhile, the United States has long since passed Italy as the leading country in number of confirmed cases, with over five times the number of confirmed cases (1,125,719to 210,717) and twice the number of deaths (60,710 to 28,884). That last figure means that from the outbreak of the virus up until May 4, just under one in four of the total worldwide deaths registered from COVID-19 as of this past Monday (239,740), have been within the United States.