Washington state reports 217 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health on Sunday reported 217 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 10 additional deaths.
Statewide totals are now at 16,891 cases and 931 deaths, up from 16,674 cases and 921 deaths on Saturday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 7,007 cases and 500 deaths. Snohomish County has 2,681 cases and 117 deaths while Pierce County reported 1,321 cases and 48 deaths.
Garfield County remains the only county in the state without a confirmed case. There are 40 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
The state has now conducted 248,875 tests with 6.8% coming back positive. Of those confirmed cases, 5.5% have resulted in death.
Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday that five counties — Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln and Pend Oreille — have been approved to move on to Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan. All have reported two or less cases.
Three more counties — Kittitas, Skamania and Wahkiakum — have also applied to move forward and are under review. None of these counties have reported virus-related deaths.
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 here. DOH previously 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.”
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 10, 2020 at 4:28 PM.
