New COVID-19 cases reported Friday in Pierce County dip below 100
Pierce County reported 70 new COVID-19 cases Friday, with three additional deaths.
The latest death involved:
▪ A Lake Tapps/Sumner area woman in her 90s.
▪ A Lakewood man in his 60s.
▪ A Puyallup man in his 90s.
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 of deaths, which as of March 2 was at 74 percent.
The county’s totals are now 36,734 cases and 473 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus case was reported in March 2020.
The 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 168.7, with six-day data lag, down from 336.3 on Feb. 1. That data point offers the most reliable look at COVID-19 disease burden in Pierce County, according to health officials. Case numbers for the most part have been declining in Pierce County for a few weeks.
An estimated 3,700 cases remain active in the county, down from 7,200 estimated Feb. 1.
Testing is available at various places. More information on testing sites is available on the health department’s website.
Vaccination information and data is available on the website. The state and county are currently in Tier 1 of Phase 1B.
GEOGRAPHIC TOTALS
Friday’s cumulative geographic totals with Thursday’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 995 (No change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 1,669 (1,667)
▪ East Pierce County: 1,594 (No change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 1,502 (1,501)
▪ Frederickson: 1,345 (1,344)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 1,158 (1,156)
▪ Graham: 1,220 (No change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 338 (337)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 1,316 (1,315)
▪ Lakewood: 3,019 (3,014)
▪ Parkland: 1,830 (1,826)
▪ Puyallup: 2,133 (2,131)
▪ South Hill: 2,071 (2,065)
▪ South Pierce County: 1,675 (1,169)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 532 (531)
▪ Spanaway: 1,723 (1,720)
▪ Tacoma: 10,313 (10,302)
▪ University Place: 1,201 (1,200)
▪ Unknown: 1,600 (1,591)
VACCINES
As of March 4:
▪ About 182,816 total doses administered to Pierce County residents.
▪ Among county residents, about 116,174 have received just their first vaccine dose (12.9 percent of population); 65,046 have received two doses and are fully vaccinated (7.23 percent of population).
On Thursday, state Department of Health officials said that more than 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been given throughout the state and almost 80% of all doses received in the state had been administered. The current seven-day average is just over 43,000 vaccines a day, close the goal of achieving 45,000 vaccines given per day. About 14.87 percent of the state population has initiated vaccination, with 8.37 percent fully vaccinated.
