Washington state reports 277 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health on Monday reported 277 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven additional deaths.
Statewide totals are now at 15,462 cases and 841 deaths, up from 15,185 cases and 834 deaths on Sunday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 6,545 cases and 463 deaths. Snohomish County has 2,537 cases and 111 deaths while Pierce County is reporting 1,531 cases and 52 deaths. Garfield County remains the only county without a confirmed case.
There are 52 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
The state has now conducted 216,320 tests with 7.1% coming back positive. Of the total confirmed cases, 5.4% have resulted in death.
Preliminary data on total hospitalizations for confirmed cases — broken down by admission date, date of illness onset, age, sex and race and ethnicity — are available.
The DOH also offers downloadable datasets that break down cases and deaths by week, county and age. These datasets are updated each Sunday.
The Department of Health and Microsoft’s AI for Health team have partnered to create interactive data dashboards, which can be found here. Simple data summary tables are also available here.
This story was originally published May 4, 2020 at 5:10 PM.
