Pierce County starts week with 26 new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths
Pierce County reported 26 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and two more deaths.
The county’s total COVID-19 cases are at 1,712 with 62 deaths. A previous case was misreported and removed from the daily totals.
Daily case totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases that were originally attributed to other counties.
The two new deaths reported Monday involved Tacoma women, both in their 90s with underlying health conditions.
According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard, there have been 18,284 tests run on Pierce County residents with 8.5 percent of them positive.
The county now reports the number of health care workers diagnosed with COVID-19. On May 9, it reported there were 289 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pierce County among health care workers. The next case count update for this group will be Wednesday.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page lists the number of assumed recovered cases as 920, and estimated still-active confirmed cases as 792.
Monday’s geographical totals are listed below with Sunday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 40 (38)
▪ Central Pierce County: 127 (126)
▪ East Pierce County: 48 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 83 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 58 (57)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 51 (no change)
▪ Graham: 52 (51)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 41 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 179 (176)
▪ Parkland: 91 (89)
▪ Puyallup: 120 (115)
▪ South Hill: 91 (89)
▪ South Pierce County: 37 (36)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 56 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 553 (546)
▪ University Place: 50 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 7 (8)
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 11, 2020 at 2:32 PM.
