13 new COVID-19 cases in Pierce County and one new death reported Friday
Pierce County on Friday reported 13 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death.
The county’s totals now stand at 1,766 cases and 66 deaths, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Daily case totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
The new death involved a Puyallup woman in her 90s with underlying health conditions. Figures on the health department’s website show 95 percent of the county’s deaths from COVID-19 involved individuals with underlying health conditions.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page lists the number of assumed recovered cases as 1,027 with estimated still-active confirmed cases at 739.
There have been 19,765 coronavirus tests run on Pierce County residents with 8.2 percent of them positive, according to state Department of Health. That total does not include negative tests from long-term care facilities or tests not yet assigned to a county, according to the county health department.
Friday’s geographical totals are listed below with Thursday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 44 (41)
▪ Central Pierce County: 128 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 47 (48)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 85 (84)
▪ Frederickson: 59 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 52 (no change)
▪ Graham: 53 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 44 (42)
▪ Lakewood: 184 (183)
▪ Parkland: 94 (no change)
▪ Puyallup: 120 (no change)
▪ South Hill: 98 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 38 (37)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 59 (58)
▪ Tacoma: 567 (565)
▪ University Place: 58 (57)
▪ Unknown: 8 (7)
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 15, 2020 at 2:24 PM.
