Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Friday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 7,813 new COVID-19 cases on Friday.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 1,367,769. As of Friday, the preliminary death tally is 10,967. The confirmed death tally is 10,620 as of Jan. 18.
Hospitalizations
As of Jan. 22, the date with the most recent complete data, 226 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals.
Case rates
For the past seven days, Washington has had a case rate of 977.2 per 100,000 people.
The national rate for the same period was 724.4 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, 13.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, 554.9 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Friday, 66% of Washington residents and 64% of the U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
County numbers
According to DOH data, King County, with the state’s highest population, continues to have the highest numbers in Washington, with 351,573 cases and 2,335 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 178,393. Pierce County has the third-highest number of deaths, at 1,183, according to DOH, which counts deaths differently than the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
All counties in Washington have at least 300 cases. Only three of the state’s 39 counties have case counts of fewer than 1,000.
U.S. and world numbers
There have been more than 76.2 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 900,754 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 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 390.3 million.
This story was originally published February 4, 2022 at 4:33 PM with the headline "Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Friday in Washington state."
