Washington state COVID-19 cases pass 16,000
The Washington State Department of Health on Thursday reported 326 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 21 additional deaths.
Statewide totals are now at 16,231 cases and 891 deaths, up from 15,905 cases and 870 deaths on Wednesday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 6,809 cases and 480 deaths. Snohomish County has 2,627 cases and 114 deaths while Pierce County is reporting 1,625 cases and 57 deaths.
Garfield County remains the only county without a confirmed case. There are 53 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
The state has now conducted 230,680 tests with 7.0% 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, DOH announced on its website that the visualization of COVID-like illness 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 site says. “The overall effect is that the proportion and number of CLI hospitalizations is larger than it was previously.”
DOH is also offering downloadable datasets that break down cases and deaths by week, county and age. These datasets are updated each Sunday.
DOH 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 7, 2020 at 4:07 PM.
