Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement.
We saw more COVID-19 outbreaks and fewer associated cases this week compared to last. We closed some larger outbreaks.
You can help stop outbreaks. If you feel sick, stay home, get tested and use CDC’s quarantine and isolation tool to see the next steps you should take.
Businesses and long-term care facilities had 107 outbreaks with 949 cases, an 11% increase in the number of outbreaks and a slight decrease in associated cases from last week.
We closed 3 larger outbreaks (10 or more active cases) and added no new ones.
Learn about outbreak definitions and find more data in the Outbreaks section at tpchd.org/covid19cases.
Find more information on:
- Case counts, hospitalizations, vaccination and other metrics.
- COVID-19 vaccines.
- Getting a COVID-19 test.
- Childcare and schools.
You’re doing nothing about the outbreak at the Tacoma Rescue Mission, of which I was a victim of. There were over 10 women affected, and who knows how more, since the only people tested were those who DEMANDED a test. No masks were ever required and no one has been informed there has been an ongoing outbreak. Even when a person with active COVID has returned to the property, staff has been unwilling to remove them and it has been left to residents to call emergency services and remove the infected person to a quarantine facility. The Pierce County Health Department has allowed the spread of COVID-19 in Tacoma by not actively treating the homeless community.