Here are the latest COVID-19 case numbers confirmed Thursday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 1,626 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths Thursday.
Pierce County reported 236 cases Thursday and no new deaths. The county has 528 deaths likely caused by COVID-19, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 391,839 and 5,428 deaths. Those numbers are up from 390,213 cases and 5,422 deaths as of Wednesday. The case total includes 27,999 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 10, the date with the most recent complete data, 51 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals.
Preliminary reports indicate average daily hospital admissions were increasing at 56 in mid-April.
Out of the state’s total staffed intensive care unit beds (1,283), approximately 79.3% (1,014) were occupied by patients Wednesday. Of those staffed ICU beds, 12% (154) held suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.
Case rates
For the past seven days, Washington has had an increasing case rate of 129 per 100,000 people. Twenty-eight states were lower.
The national rate for the same period was 132 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Michigan has the highest rate in the United States at 449. Hawaii is the lowest at 39.2.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, 5.22 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, 218 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Thursday, 25.9% of Washington residents and 34.4% of the adult U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
On April 15, all Washington residents ages 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine.
Testing
On April 3, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 12,645 specimens were collected statewide, with 4.8% testing positive.
The average positive test rate for the seven days prior was steady at 4.5%. More than 6.3 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 98,627 cases and 1,504 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 47,151. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 636, 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 31.9 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 570,147 deaths from the virus in the United States as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest total number of reported cases and deaths of any nation.
More than 3.06 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 144 million.
