Pierce County sees 10 new COVID-19 cases, one new death; cases at care facilities rise
Pierce County on Wednesday reported 10 new COVID-19 cases and one new death.
The county’s totals now stand at 1,830 cases and 71 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 60s with underlying health conditions.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page estimated the number of still-active confirmed cases at 659 on Wednesday, with 1,171 assumed recovered.
There have been 21,744 coronavirus tests run on Pierce County residents with 7.8 percent of them positive as of May 18, according to state Department of Health data. 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.
Among the other Wednesday updates in the weekly portion of the county data, hospitalizations were down from the previous week, and the percentage breakdown of deaths since the start of COVID-19 deaths in the county were as follows:
▪ Hospitalized: 57.8 percent.
▪ Lived or worked in a care facility: 66.2 percent.
▪ Had underlying health conditions: 97.2 percent.
As many as 295 confirmed COVID-19 cases (16.8 percent of total cases) in Pierce County are health care workers.
This week, the county reported 445 cases at congregate care facilities, up from 415 last week. The “Other Facilities” listing includes sites with fewer than 10 cases or fewer than 30 beds. It also includes homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and rehabilitation centers.
Cases at care facilities among residents and staff as of Wednesday are listed with previous week’s totals in parentheses. Newly listed locations will only show one case total:
▪ Heartwood Extended Health Care, Tacoma: 70 (no change)
▪ Alpha Cottages (Gibraltar Assisted Living), Central Pierce County: 36 (no change)
▪ Avamere Puget Sound Transitional Care, Tacoma: 32 (no change)
▪ Lindon Grove, Puyallup: 66 (54)
▪ Orchard Park Health and Rehab Center, Tacoma, 22 (20)
▪ Pioneer Place Memory Haven, Central Pierce County: 15 (no change)
▪ The Cottages at Edgewood, Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 14 (no change)
▪ People’s Retirement Center, Tacoma: 19 (18)
▪ Other facilities, multiple areas: 171 (156)
Wednesday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 44 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 132 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 49 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 87 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 64 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 52 (no change)
▪ Graham: 54 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 46 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 189 (185)
▪ Parkland: 102 (101)
▪ Puyallup: 132 (128)
▪ South Hill: 100 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 38 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 63 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 583 (no change)
▪ University Place: 59 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 8 (no change)
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 20, 2020 at 2:39 PM.
