Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Wednesday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 531 new COVID-19 cases and one death Wednesday.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 445,686 and 5,801 deaths. Those numbers are up from 445,155 and 5,800 deaths as of Tuesday. The case total includes 35,866 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 June 5, the date with the most recent complete data, 38 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 46.8 per 100,000 people.
The national rate for the same period was 25.7 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, more than 8.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, 312.9 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Wednesday, 67.2% of Washington residents age 16 and up had been vaccinated, according to DOH. According to CDC statistics, 54.8% 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 June 7, the most recent date with confirmed testing data, 20,632 specimens were collected statewide, with 2.5% testing positive.
The average positive test rate for the seven days prior was 3.4%. 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 111,306 cases and 1,609 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 56,381. Pierce County has the second-highest number of deaths, at 631, 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 33.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 600,624 deaths from the virus in the United States as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest total number of reported cases and deaths of any nation.
More than 176.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 3.8 million.
This story was originally published June 16, 2021 at 4:42 PM with the headline "Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers confirmed Wednesday in Washington state."
