Washington state reports 15,905 COVID-19 cases, 870 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health reported 311 new COVID-19 cases and eight additional deaths Wednesday.
Statewide case totals have reached 15,905, while the state’s death toll is now at 870, up from 15,594 cases and 862 deaths Tuesday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit, reporting 6,704 cases and 474 deaths. Snohomish County has reached 2,584 cases and 112 deaths, and Pierce County is reporting 1,591 cases and 54 deaths.
Of the state’s 39 counties, all but Garfield County have reported cases, with Benton (548), Chelan (137), Clark (341), Franklin (387), Grant (179), Island (172), King (6,704), Kitsap (151), Pierce (1,591), Skagit (379), Snohomish (2,584), Spokane (379), Thurston (116), Whatcom (324) and Yakima (1,449) all reporting more than 100 cases.
Twenty-two counties have reported at least one virus-related death. All but four of those counties have reported multiple deaths, with Benton (46), Clark (20), Franklin (14), King (474), Pierce (54), Skagit (13), Snohomish (112), Spokane (24), Whatcom (30) and Yakima (52) all reporting at least 10.
There are 61 cases that have not been assigned to a county.
There have been 224,813 tests completed in Washington, with positive results at 7.1%.
The DOH is also now reporting downloadable datasets that break down cases and deaths by week, county and age. These datasets are updated each Sunday.
Preliminary data on total hospitalizations for confirmed cases — broken down by admission date, date of illness onset, age, sex and race and ethnicity — are also now available.
The DOH also added another hospitalization data update on its reporting site Tuesday.
“Effective May 5, the visualization of COVID-like illness (CLI) hospitalizations reflects hospitalizations identified using updated methodology,” the site says. “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 overall effect is that the proportion and number of CLI hospitalizations is larger than it was previously.”
This story was originally published May 6, 2020 at 4:41 PM.
