Here are the latest COVID-19 case numbers confirmed Friday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 2,169 new COVID-19 cases and eight deaths Friday.
Pierce County reported 237 cases Friday and one new death. The county has 523 deaths likely caused by COVID-19, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 383,894 and 5,380 deaths. Those numbers are up from 381,725 cases and 5,362 deaths Thursday. The case total includes 26,772 infections listed as probable. DOH revises previous case and death counts daily.
Washington’s population is estimated at about 7.6 million, according to U.S. Census figures from July 2019.
Hospitalizations
As of April 4, the date with the most recent complete data, 27 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals.
Preliminary reports indicate average daily hospital admissions were steady at 48 in early April.
Out of the state’s total staffed intensive care unit beds (1,288) approximately 79.5% (1,024) were occupied by patients Thursday. Of those staffed ICU beds, 9.6% (124) held suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.
Case rates
For the past seven days, Washington has had an increasing case rate of 111 per 100,000 people. Twenty-three states were lower.
The national rate for the same period was 146 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Michigan has the highest rate in the United States at 538. Hawaii is the lowest at 40.5
Vaccine
According to the CDC, 4.78 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, 258 million doses have been distributed and 202 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Friday, 23% of Washington residents and 31.1% of the adult U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
On April 15, all Washington residents age 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine.
Testing
On March 28, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 6,949 specimens were collected statewide, with 5.2% testing positive.
The average positive test rate for the seven days prior was steady at 4.6%. More than 6.2 million tests have been conducted in Washington. The test numbers reflect only polymerase chain reaction tests, which are administered while the virus is presumably still active in the body.
County numbers
According to DOH data, King County, with the state’s highest population, continues to have the highest numbers in Washington, with 96,335 cases and 1,494 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 45,662. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 630, according to DOH, which counts deaths differently than the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
All counties in Washington have at least 100 cases. Only 11 of the state’s 39 counties have case counts of fewer than 1,000.
U.S. and world numbers
There have been more than 31.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 566,067 deaths from the virus in the United States as of Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest total number of reported cases and deaths of any nation.
More than 2.99 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 139 million.
