DIDHD: 111 new virus positives in Dickinson, 69 in Iron
Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County in the past eight days has added 111 new confirmed COVID-19 positives plus a death blamed on the virus, while Iron County had 69 more cases and two more deaths.
Dickinson County also has had 101 probable coronavirus positives and Iron County nine probables since the last Dickinson-Iron District Health Department report Dec. 29.
In addition, Dickinson County had 218 people reclassified as recovered from the virus, while Iron County had 83 recoveries, the DIDHD listed in its Facebook post Thursday.
The DIDHD had Dickinson County at 3,805 confirmed positives and 1,551 probable cases to date, with 4,825 recovered, 95 deaths and 436 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 1,758 confirmed cases and 203 probables, with 1,784 recovered, 71 deaths and 106 active cases.
The Upper Peninsula as of Wednesday had 63 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 16 adults in intensive care and five on ventilators, according to Frontline UPdates JIC, a group of health care communication professionals from the U.P.
Statewide Wednesday, 4,190 adults were hospitalized with COVID-19 — plus 107 pediatric patients — with 807 adults in ICU beds and 526 on ventilators.
For the five Wisconsin counties in the region Thursday, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site since Wednesday had 58 new confirmed positives in Marinette County, 45 in Vilas County, 12 in Forest County, and four each in Florence and Iron counties. The state listed three more virus-related deaths in Forest County.
The DHS data site Thursday had Marinette County with 7,654 confirmed cases, 1,584 probable cases and 85 deaths, 13 probable deaths; Vilas County, 3,664 confirmed, 205 probable and 66 deaths, four probable; Forest County, 1,817 confirmed, 158 probable and 39 deaths, four probable; Iron County, 858 confirmed, 215 probable and 23 deaths, 21 probable; and Florence County, 642 confirmed, 180 probable and 15 deaths.
Wisconsin data Thursday showed 11,574 more positives in the state — another one-day record for the state this week, topping the figure set just a day earlier — for a total of 1,035,542 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The DHS recorded 55 more virus-related deaths Thursday to reach 10,253.





