Pierce County starts week with 62 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
Pierce County reported 62 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and no new deaths.
There have now been 3,268 cases and 97 deaths recorded since the county’s first case was reported March 6 in the pandemic.
The county has reported 763 cases in the past 14 days, an average of 54.5 cases per day. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 84.6.
The county estimates 1,124 still-active cases.
Daily totals for cases and deaths can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
In a blog posted by the health department over the weekend, it noted about one-third of the cases are among 20-29 year-olds, and the county’s cases from the last two weeks of June were “disproportionately among young adults in their 20s,” according to information from the Institute for Disease Modeling.
The department also noted that Pierce County had the highest percent of COVID-19 cases among people 20-29 in the state.
Added to that, test processing delays and possibly “an increase of cases resulting from social gatherings over the Fourth of July holiday weekend,” could be contributing factors to the higher numbers, but the department reiterated that increased testing “is not enough to account for the increase in cases.”
Testing is available at various sites in the county. For more information on local testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.
Monday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 75 (70)
▪ Central Pierce County: 211 (205)
▪ East Pierce County: 85 (82)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 144 (140)
▪ Frederickson: 122 (116)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 90 (no change)
▪ Graham: 92 (89)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 18 (17)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 108 (107)
▪ Lakewood: 333 (328)
▪ Parkland: 185 (181)
▪ Puyallup: 219 (217)
▪ South Hill: 154 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 62 (61)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 39 (37)
▪ Spanaway: 114 (105)
▪ Tacoma: 1,038 (1,028)
▪ University Place: 152 (150)
▪ Unknown: 27 (28)
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.
