Thurston County reports 28 new COVID-19 cases, increasing overall total to 8,156
Thurston County reported 28 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, giving the county 54 cases for the week and 8,156 overall.
Weekly cases totals have remained low since the county hit a multi-week low of 109 cases in mid-March, county health data show. Over the next two weeks, case totals rose to 167 and 166 cases, then fell again to 153 cases last week.
Thurston County Public Health and Social Services continues to release weekly case information about the virus, but it has tweaked its data in other ways, a spokeswoman for the county said Wednesday.
During the first weekend in April, the county announced it would stop reporting new COVID-19 cases on weekends, and around that same time, also stopped releasing specific daily case information on the age and gender of the people who contracted the virus, Magen Johnson said.
Johnson said the county wanted to streamline the reporting of its COVID-19 data, calling the previous approach “time consuming.”
Although the county is no longer releasing daily age and gender information, it is still tracking the cumulative COVID-19 totals for age and gender.
“We have the same level of data, it’s just presented in a different format,” she said.
Of the overall number of cases here, 7,676 people have recovered or are recovering from the virus, 465 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness and 76 have died. The county is also reporting three COVID-19 outbreaks at one adult family home, one nursing home and one in congregate housing.
The following county zip codes saw an increase in cases from last week: 98501, 98502, 98503, 98506, 98512, 98513, 98516, 98579, 98589, 98597.
IN THE REGION
▪ Pierce County reported 116 new COVID-19 cases and one new death on Wednesday, bringing its totals to 41,158 cases and 521 deaths.
▪ Grays Harbor County has reported 3,598 confirmed and probable cases and 58 deaths so far.
▪ Lewis County Public Health & Social Services has reported 3,486 cases and 56 deaths as of Tuesday.
▪ Mason County reported six more cases on Tuesday for a total of 1,972 cases with 28 deaths.
▪ Pacific County on Wednesday reported 895 cases and 11 deaths, according to a news release from the Pacific County emergency management agency.
IN THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
The state Department of Health has reported a total of 380,339 COVID-19 cases and 5,357 deaths on Wednesday.
In the U.S., about 31.4 million cases have been reported as of Wednesday with more than 564,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Globally, about 137.2 million cases have been reported and more than 2.96 million people have died as of Wednesday.
This story was originally published April 14, 2021 at 1:59 PM.
