Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers reported Wednesday in Washington state
The Washington state Department of Health reported 2,699 new COVID-19 cases and 63 deaths Wednesday.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 654,710 and 7,654 deaths. Those numbers are up from 652,011 cases and 7,591 deaths as of Tuesday. The case total includes 73,052 infections listed as probable. DOH revises previous case and death counts daily.
Washington’s population is estimated at about 7.7 million, according to the latest U.S. Census figures.
Hospitalizations
As of Sept. 20, the date with the most recent complete data, 148 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 275.6 per 100,000 people.
The national rate for the same period was 226.9 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine
According to the CDC, more than 9.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.
On the national level, more than 391.9 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.
As of Wednesday, 57.6% of Washington residents and 55.9% of the U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.
Testing
On Sept. 15, DOH stopped updating testing statistics on its website because it was having difficulty processing an increase in data. The agency said the halt in updating will continue through Oct. 31.
County numbers
According to DOH data, King County, with the state’s highest population, continues to have the highest numbers in Washington, with 150,923 cases and 1,863 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 83,261. Pierce County has the third-highest number of deaths, at 794, according to DOH, which counts deaths differently than the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
All counties in Washington have at least 100 cases. Only seven of the state’s 39 counties have case counts of fewer than 1,000.
U.S. and world numbers
There have been more than 43.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 694,916 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 4.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 233.1 million.
This story was originally published September 29, 2021 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers reported Wednesday in Washington state."
