Washington state passes 17,000 COVID-19 cases
The Washington State Department of Health on Monday reported 231 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 14 additional deaths.
Statewide totals are now at 17,122 cases and 945 deaths, up from 16,891 cases and 931 deaths on Sunday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 7,068 cases and 506 deaths. Snohomish County has 2,690 cases and 118 deaths while Pierce County reported 1,712 cases and 62 deaths.
Garfield County remains the only county in the state without a case. There are 38 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
Washington state has now conducted 252,108 tests with 6.8% coming back positive. Of the total confirmed cases, 5.5% have resulted in death.
On Monday, three more counties —Wahkiakum, Skamania, and Stevens — were approved to move into Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s Safe Start plan. Variances for Columbia, Garfield, Lincoln, Ferry and Pend Oreille counties were approved last week. All eight counties have less than 10 cases each and only Stevens County — one death — has reported a fatality.
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 11, 2020 at 5:20 PM.
