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Data provided by the county’s health department Friday showed the same decline. In Rock County, inpatient admissions dropped from a pandemic high of 77 on Jan. 14 to 46 as of Jan. 20.

In Rock County, 3,877 COVID-19 new cases and 14 deaths were reported between Jan. 15 and Friday with a test positivity rate of 30.2% in that timeframe.

Between Jan. 15 and Friday, Wisconsin reported 148,595 cases and 297 virus-related deaths and a test positivity rate above 25% in that time period.

Nationwide, there have been 70,206,220 COVID-19 cases reported since the pandemic began in the United States and 862,494 COVID-19 deaths, according to the CDC’s COVID Tracker website. There were 769,153 new cases and 3,506 new deaths in the nation attributed to COVID-19 as of Sunday, according to the tracker.