Washington state reports 132 new COVID-19 cases, 21 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 132 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 21 additional deaths.
Statewide totals are now at 15,594 cases and 862 deaths, up from 15,462 cases and 841 deaths on Monday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 6,621 cases and 469 deaths. Snohomish County has 2,549 cases and 112 deaths while Pierce County is reporting 1,552 cases and 54 deaths.
Garfield County remains the only county without a confirmed case. There are 37 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
The state has now conducted 219,453 tests with 7.1% coming back positive. Of the total confirmed cases, 5.5% 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.
On Tuesday, the Department of Health announced that the visualization of COVID-like illness (CLI) hospitalizations will now reflect hospitalizations identified using updated methodology.
“While it still may include hospitalizations where the patient is not tested or tests negative for COVID-19, this strategy is optimized to identify more patients with CLI, patients diagnosed with coronavirus of any type and to remove visits in which the patient was diagnosed with influenza,” the Department of Health said in its update. “The overall effect is that the proportion and number of CLI hospitalizations is larger than it was previously.”
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 5, 2020 at 4:33 PM.
