Pierce County sees 34 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
Pierce County reported 34 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday and no additional deaths.
County totals are now 7,261 cases and 162 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has reported 496 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 55. The goal for counties in Phase 2 is 25 or fewer per 100,000.
The average cases per day over the past 14 days is 35.4.
In late July-early August, the county hit the peak in its second wave with more than 90 cases in its 14-day rolling average.
There are an estimated 1,032 still-active cases in the county, according to the health department.
The 20-39 age group remains the highest number of COVID-19 cases at 43.1 percent in the past two weeks.
Daily totals for cases and deaths can change as the county receives new information, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
On Wednesday the health department noted that it updated the testing data on its dashboard “to include additional negative tests Madigan Hospital has provided since March 2020, which decreased the test positivity rate of 0.2-1.0% each week.”
It listed a 3 percent positive rate for the county for the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5.
Testing is available at various sites in the county. For more information on testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.
Wednesday’s geographical case totals for Pierce County are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 178 (177)
▪ Central Pierce County: 440 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 245 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 309 (307)
▪ Frederickson: 276 (272)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 198 (no change)
▪ Graham: 244 (243)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 56 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 230 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 659 (657)
▪ Parkland: 396 (394)
▪ Puyallup: 441 (436)
▪ South Hill: 382 (380)
▪ South Pierce County: 183 (181)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 75 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 339 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 2,243 (2,230)
▪ University Place: 291 (290)
▪ Unknown: 76 (no change)
This story was originally published September 16, 2020 at 3:03 PM.
