Same story on Wisconsin COVID. Less cases, less deaths, and less testing

For "this week in Wisconsin COVID", the trends were basically the same as we have seen in recent weeks. The number of new cases and deaths both continued to decline, although they are still at higher levels than they were 2 months.

But as we've seen in recent weeks, the lower amount of cases may not necessarily mean that we're making progress in eliminating COVID. That is because the number of unique individuals getting tests continues to go down, and are at their lowest amounts in more than 3 months. We also had our second straight week of more than 8% of those tests being positive, which hasn't happened since we were in the early weeks of the pandemic.

I assume that number of tests will increase for next week, as we get more results from students and UW-Madison coming back to campus. But it may also mean a bump up in cases for the state, and if we don't see either more cases or more testing, then it's a strong signal. But until then, Wisconsin and America keep muddling our way through a pandemic that has affected our public health and economy for nearly 6 months.