Pierce County reports 35 new COVID-19 cases, three new deaths
Pierce County on Thursday reported 35 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths.
The county has seen a total of 1,625 cases and 57 deaths, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. It reduced a previous case count by one.
The new deaths included a Tacoma woman in her 60s, a Tacoma man in his 70s and another Tacoma man in his 50s. All had underlying health conditions, according to the health department.
A new chart now included on the health department’s website includes more data behind deaths related to the coronavirus.
It lists 96.3 percent have died with underlying health conditions, 55.6 percent of those who died lived or worked in a care facility, and 61 percent had been hospitalized.
The totals do not add up to 100 percent as some of the classifications overlap.
Daily case totals can change as the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department receives new information. Adjustments can include correcting duplicate data, assigning a case to another county or learning a test for the coronavirus was a false positive.
According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard, there have been 16,504 tests run on Pierce County residents with 8.8 percent of them positive. That data lags the county reporting on case totals.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page unveiled a redesigned look Wednesday, listing the number of assumed recovered cases (799) and estimated active confirmed cases (826) for Pierce County.
Thursday’s geographical totals are listed below with Wednesday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 38 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 121 (120)
▪ East Pierce County: 47 (45)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 81 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 54 (53)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 51 (50)
▪ Graham: 50 (49)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 40 (39)
▪ Lakewood: 167 (163)
▪ Parkland: 82 (80)
▪ Puyallup: 113 (103)
▪ South Hill: 84 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 34 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 19 (18)
▪ Spanaway: 56 (54)
▪ Tacoma: 526 (518)
▪ University Place: 48 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 7 (no change)
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
BEHIND THE STORY
MOREHow we are reporting coronavirus numbers
The News Tribune reports confirmed coronavirus cases as listed by the Washington Department of Health and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in their daily updates.
The state total includes all cases submitted by county health departments by 11:59 p.m. the previous day and is updated once a day by 6 p.m. on its website. Its numbers only include the cases the health departments have reported directly to the state. In some cases, county health departments have reported cases publicly but not to the state health department by the daily deadline, leading to different totals on occasion.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department updates its total by 2 p.m. each day on its website, and consists of all new confirmed cases reported by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
This story was originally published May 7, 2020 at 2:26 PM.
