Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Tuesday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 2,201 new COVID-19 cases and 24 deaths on Tuesday.
Pierce County reported 52 cases and two new deaths. The county has 575 deaths likely caused by COVID-19, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. Over the Memorial Day weekend, 350 new cases were reported in Pierce County: 96 on Monday, 126 on Sunday and 128 on Saturday.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 436,984 and 5,789 deaths. Those numbers are up from 434,783 and 5,765 deaths deaths as of Friday. The case total includes 34,448 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 21, the date with the most recent complete data, 64 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 90.2 per 100,000 people.
The national rate for the same period was 33.7 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, more than 7.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, 296 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Tuesday, 43.25% of Washington residents and 51.7% of the adult U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
On April 15, all Washington residents ages 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine.
Testing
On May 23, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 6,754 specimens were collected statewide, with 4.8% testing positive.
The average positive test rate for the seven days prior was steady at 4.9%. 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 109,757 cases and 1,585 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 3,454. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 696 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 595,181 deaths from the virus in the United States as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest total number of reported cases and deaths of any nation.
More than 3.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 170 million.
This story was originally published June 1, 2021 at 4:28 PM with the headline "Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Tuesday in Washington state."
