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Data

person sitting at laptopUpdated 01/21/2021 at 4:50pm

 Launch Data Dashboard

Data Snapshot

Each week we plan to share a data snapshot that highlights a few key data points from the week. 

We are also now putting out a blog post each Monday titled "Data Notes," which explains the trends and themes we're seeing. To get notification when a new blog is posted, subscribe on this page. You can find past blog posts there as well.

Forward Dane Metrics

Last updated January 21, 2021; Data from January 5 through January 18. Data are updated weekly on Thursdays. See the weekly snapshot (linked above) for details on measures below.

Measure Dane County Status
Percent Positive Tests
Below a threshold of 5% for positive tests as a percent of total tests averaged across most recent 14 day period
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Cases per Day
Below a low incidence threshold of 4 cases per day for Dane County averaged over most recent 14 day period
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Tests Conducted
Testing supplies and staff facilitate adequate testing for disease control and surveillance with goal of over 800 tests per day in most recent 14 day period
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Testing for Healthcare Workers
Robust testing in place for health care workers		 This metric removed due to changes in reporting from health systems. For hospitalization and critical staffing shortages data, see the Snapshot.  
Patients Treated without Crisis Care
Treat all patients without crisis care, including facility use, staffing, and critical supply		 This metric removed due to changes in reporting from health systems. For hospitalization and critical staffing shortages data, see the Snapshot.  
Healthcare Workers with COVID-19
Stable or decreasing numbers of infected healthcare workers in most recent 14 day period
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Lab Reporting Timeliness & Contact Tracing
All positive cases can be reported and contacted quickly to facilitate rapid isolation and quarantine for disease control in most recent 14 day period
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Community Spread
Proportion of contacted COVID-19 cases who don't know where they could have gotten COVID-19 in most recent 14 day period
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COVID-like Symptoms
Stable or decrease of COVID-like syndromic cases reported within most recent 14 day period
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green circle with a checkmark  = green  

yellow circle with exclamation point  = yellow

red circle with x  = red

Process Measures

In addition to the publicly facing nine metrics, we’ll be monitoring process measures as well to help us understand where there may be a gap in the system. These process measures look at transmission dynamics (the “R” value of our epidemic), lab result reporting timeliness, outbreak monitoring within priority populations, capacity for supporting isolation/quarantine, and contact attempts of both cases and contacts.

Dane County COVID-19 Death Data

There are a few ways to examine COVID-19 deaths. This fact sheet explains the different calculations and shares data on deaths through August 18, 2020.

See Snapshots for additional data on deaths.