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UPDATE: La Crosse, Trempealeau counties each report first COVID-19 death

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Friday morning, La Crosse County’s health department reported the first resident to die from COVID-19.

Later that afternoon, Trempealeau County also reported its first death from the virus with a similar post to La Crosse County’s on Facebook.

Later in the afternoon, Both La Crosse and Trempealeau counties released case counts and both showed 10 more confirmed.

In La Crosse, the total is now 636 cases. Of that number, 145 cases are still active.

There are now five people currently hospitalized — down one from Thursday.

None of Friday’s cases were from the National Guard testing site, though not all those 400 tests have been completed yet.

Nine of the 10 reported cases Friday were people in their 20s. The other cases is someone over 80 years old.

The county’s positive test rate is 4.2 percent. Back on June 10, when the health department first released that stat, the positive test rate was 1.3 percent.

County data shows that 55.7 percent of La Crosse’s 618 cases through June 15 are people in their 20s. No other age group is at 10 percent.

Also, 28.5 percent of cases, updated from data through June 15, have been moderate severity, 5.4 percent were asymptomatic and 4.3 percent was severe. The rest of cases (61.9 percent) were mild in severity.

In Trempealeau County, the case total is now 231 with 77 still active.

Trempealeau County also added another free National Guard testing site. It will be on July 28 at Blair-Taylor High School in Blair from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Anyone aged 5 and over who has either been recently exposed from a close contact or is showing any symptoms, can be tested.

A day after Winona reported its first death since April from the virus, the county added four more confirmed cases Friday, bringing the total to 167.

Buffalo County has gone down to 19 total cases, after a correction in data, taking two cases away from its total.

Trempealeau (211 cases) and Vernon (42 cases) counties have yet to report case totals Friday.


STATE TOTALS:
Wisconsin: 40,507 cases, 4,031 hospitalizations, 833 deaths
Minnesota: 45,013 cases, 4,563 hospitalizations, 1,533 deaths
Iowa: 37,721 cases, 783 deaths (state doesn’t show total hospitalizations)


Statewide, Wisconsin reported 880 confirmed cases, 63 more hospitalizations and two deaths on Friday. The state has 8,411 active cases. Ten percent of those who have gotten the virus in Wisconsin have been hospitalized.

Minnesota confirmed 669 cases, 37 hospitalizations and seven deaths. The death toll in the state has remained in the single digits per day all but one day this month (July 3).

Iowa data shows 879 new cases, 27 hospitalizations and five additional deaths on Friday. The state has 10,117 cases still active, including 210 in the hospital, 70 of those in ICU and 32 people on ventilators.

Host of WIZM's La Crosse Talk PM | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Hometown: Greenville, Wis | Avid noonball basketball player and sand volleyballer in La Crosse

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  1. Linda Van Art

    August 1, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    What is the definition of “a case”?

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