More than 200 new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday in Pierce County
Pierce County reported 235 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, with four additional deaths.
The latest deaths involved:
▪ A South Pierce County man in his 60s.
▪ An East Pierce County woman in her 90s.
▪ An Edgewood/Fife/Milton man in his 60s.
▪ A Gig Harbor area woman in her 80s.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department no longer assigns underlying condition status to individual deaths it reports and instead counts underlying conditions as part of a percentage of the total number, which is at 59 percent as of Feb. 9.
The county’s totals are now 34,283 cases and 423 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus case was reported in March 2020.
With a six-day data lag, required by the state in its phased reopening measurements, the 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 296.7. That data point offers the most reliable look at COVID-19 disease burden on Pierce County, according to health officials.
The county has reported 2,144 cases in the past 14 days. Average cases per day in the past 14 days are at 191.1.
Testing is available at various sites. More information on testing sites is available on the health department’s website.
Vaccination information and data is also available on the website. The state and county are currently in Tier 1 of Phase 1B.
GEOGRAPHIC TOTALS
Wednesday’s cumulative geographic totals with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 923 (922)
▪ Central Pierce County: 1,575 (1,573)
▪ East Pierce County: 1,464 (1,460)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 1,419 (1,418)
▪ Frederickson: 1,275 (1,270)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 1,076 (1,070)
▪ Graham: 1,148 (1,141)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 311 (308)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 1,211 (1,200)
▪ Lakewood: 2,829 (2,788)
▪ Parkland: 1,695 (1,683)
▪ Puyallup: 1,997 (1,990)
▪ South Hill: 1,961 (1,953)
▪ South Pierce County: 1,068 (1,058)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 486 (484)
▪ Spanaway: 1,598 (1,587)
▪ Tacoma: 9,699 (9,645)
▪ University Place: 1,147 (1,139)
▪ Unknown: 1,401 (1,364)
Vaccines
As of Feb. 10:
▪ About 132,810 total doses administered in Pierce County.
▪ About 107,970 total doses administered to Pierce County residents.
▪ Among county residents, 23,963 have received two doses and are fully vaccinated.
▪ Last week, more than 13,400 people received their first dose of vaccine in Pierce County.
▪ An average of 3,407 people per day received a vaccine in Pierce County last week.
Roadmap to Recovery
Current metrics for Pierce County, updated once every two weeks (three of four metrics must be met to maintain phase):
▪ Trend in case rate: 4 percent.
Rate over two weeks must be decreasing or show a flat trend. (A decrease is considered -10% or more; remaining flat is considered 0% to -9.9%; an increase is anything more than 0%).
▪ Trend in hospital admissions rates: -16 percent.
The rate over two weeks must be decreasing or flat. (A decrease is considered -10% or more; remaining flat is considered 0% to -9.9%; an increase is anything more than 0%).
▪ Percent ICU occupancy: 84 percent.
The occupancy must be less than 90 percent. (Low occupancy is considered less than 90% while high occupancy is considered 90% or more).
▪ Percent positivity: 9 percent.
The COVID test positivity rate must be less than 10 percent. (Low is considered less than 10% while high is considered 10% or more).
