More than 100 new COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday in Pierce County
Pierce County reported 143 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday with three additional deaths.
The latest deaths involved:
▪ An East Pierce County man in his 80s.
▪ A Tacoma woman in her 60s.
▪ A Tacoma 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 of deaths, which as of April 27 was 76.8 percent.
The county’s totals are now 43,715 cases and 528 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus case was reported in March 2020.
The 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 256.8, with six-day data lag. The 7-day hospitalizations rate per 100,000 was 7.2 as of April 17, the most recent data point from TPCHD. That’s up from 4.8 on April 1.
The numbers differ from those reported for the state’s Roadmap to Recovery metrics, based in part on different points of time in measurement and different case totals. The state’s totals include probable cases and cases among people who live at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The state’s current measure of cases per 100,000 over 14 days for Pierce County was at 342.1 as of April 26.
An estimated 5,500 cases remain active in the county.
Testing is available at various sites in the area. Local libraries in Tacoma and Pierce County also offer test kits available for curbside pickup. More information on testing is available on the health department’s website.
GEOGRAPHIC TOTALS
Tuesday’s cumulative geographic totals with previous day’s reported totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 1,226 (1,217)
▪ Central Pierce County: 1,973 (1,968)
▪ East Pierce County: 2,009 (2,000)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 1,752 (1,745)
▪ Frederickson: 1,608 (1,596)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 1,368 (1,365)
▪ Graham: 1,457 (1,452)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 391 (390)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 1,667 (1,663)
▪ Lakewood: 3,521 (3,515)
▪ Parkland: 2,129 (2,126)
▪ Puyallup: 2,510 (2,498)
▪ South Hill: 2,519 (2,509)
▪ South Pierce County: 1,421 (1,417)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 629 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 2,045 (2,038)
▪ Tacoma: 11,927 (11,897)
▪ University Place: 1,405 (1,401)
▪ Unknown: 2,158 (2,146)
VACCINES
As of April 26:
▪ About 503,511 total doses given to Pierce County residents, according to the state Department of Health. More than 5 million have been administered statewide.
In the county, 32.43 percent of the population has initiated vaccination, and 23.11 percent are fully vaccinated, according to state DOH, compared with 40.89 percent in the state initiating vaccines, and 28.34 percent fully vaccinated.
A map showing the percentage of those vaccinated by geographic areas has been added to the health department’s COVID data page.
▪ Vaccine access in the state is open to all residents 16 and older with no qualifying conditions required. The Pfizer vaccine is available to those 16 and older, while Moderna and Johnson & Johnson is available to those 18 and older, as per the vaccines’ emergency authorization use. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine on April 23 was recommended by federal health officials for a return to use, following a recent pause in distribution nationwide pending a safety review over rare blood clots.
Go to tpchd.org/vaxtothefuture or the county’s FindYourCovidShot.com website for information on local sites offering vaccines and for mass vaccine event registration. Locations of individual vaccine sites also can be found on the state’s vaccine finder: vaccinelocator.doh.wa.gov.
▪ The health department’s call center to help those seeking vaccines is 253-649-1412.
▪ Pierce County has launched a call center to help those searching for vaccines. Residents who need assistance signing up for an event can contact the call center at 253-798-8900 or email pcvaccine@piercountywa.gov for help.
