Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Thursday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 945 new COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths Thursday.
Pierce County reported 103 cases and three new deaths. The county has 558 deaths likely caused by COVID-19, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 425,848 and 5,690 deaths. Those numbers are up from 424,903 cases and 5,673 deaths as of Wednesday. The case total includes 33,094 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 May 9, the date with the most recent complete data, 59 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals.
Case rates
For the past seven days, Washington has had an increasing case rate of 90.4 per 100,000 people.
The national rate for the same period was 58.6 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, more than 7.0 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, more than 279 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Thursday, 38.23% of Washington residents and 48.4% of the adult U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
Testing
On May 1, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 10,971 specimens were collected statewide, with 6.9% testing positive.
The average positive test rate for the seven days prior was steady at 6.9%. 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 107,845 cases and 1,555 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 53,069. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 675, 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 33 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 588,464 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 3.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 165 million.
