Pierce County sees best day in week with just four new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County on Thursday reported just four new COVID-19 cases and one new death.
The county’s totals now stand at 1,833 cases and 72 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 University Place woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page estimated the number of still-active confirmed cases at 566 on Thursday, with 1,267 assumed recovered.
There have been 22,142 coronavirus tests run on Pierce County residents with 7.7 percent of them positive as of May 19, 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.
Thursday’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: 191 (189)
▪ Parkland: 102 (no change)
▪ Puyallup: 131 (132)
▪ South Hill: 100 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 38 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 63 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 585 (583)
▪ 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 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM.
