Here are the COVID-19 numbers confirmed Friday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 1,646 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths on Friday.
Pierce County reported 263 cases and one new death. The county has 559 deaths likely caused by COVID-19, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 427,494 and 5,702 deaths. Those numbers are up from 425,848 cases and 5,690 deaths as of Thursday. The case total includes 33,351 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 10, the date with the most recent complete data, 55 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 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, more than 279.3 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Friday, 31.15% of Washington residents and 48.4% of the adult U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
Testing
On May 2, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 6,892 specimens were collected statewide, with 7.3% 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 108,120 cases and 1,559 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 53,392. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 677, 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 589,204 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 3.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 165 million.
This story was originally published May 21, 2021 at 4:55 PM with the headline "Here are the COVID-19 numbers confirmed Friday in Washington state."
