Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement.
November is here and the holidays are getting closer. COVID-19 continues to spread in our community. Vaccines and the new bivalent boosters provide the best protection against severe illness. Find your dose today. tpchd.org/vaxtothefuture
This week, Washington State Department of Health changed its COVID-19 data reporting to once a week. Starting next week, we will move our data report to Thursdays to align with that reporting.
On Nov. 1:
- Our current COVID-19 7-day case rate per 100,000 is 47.2 for October 16-22.
- Our current 7-day hospitalization rate per 100,000 is 2.9 for Oct. 14-20.
Because of an issue with the Electronic Laboratory Reporting system, this data is likely incomplete.
We confirmed 371 cases and 5 deaths for October 23-29:
- A woman in her 80s from Central Tacoma- Hilltop.
- A woman in her 90s from Gig Harbor.
- A woman in her 70s from East Tacoma.
- A man in his 70s from Central Tacoma – Hilltop.
- A woman in her 50s from Spanaway.
We record deaths by week in our cases dashboard on our data page.
Pierce County’s total COVID-19 count is 223,245 cases and 1,537 deaths. Our average cases per day over the past 7 days ending October 29 is 53.
In the last 2 weeks:
- 12.0% of our cases are younger than 20 years old. People in that age group make up 26.4% of Pierce County’s population.
- 23.3% of our cases are ages 20-34. That age group makes up 19.7% of our population.
- 21.6% of our cases are ages 35-49. That age group makes up 18.9% of our population.
- 43.2% of our cases are ages 50 or older. That age group makes up 35% of our population.
Find more information on cases, hospitalizations, deaths and related demographics at tpchd.org/covid19cases. Click on each heading to see tables, maps and dashboards.
Find more information on:
- Case counts, hospitalizations, vaccination and other metrics.
- COVID-19 vaccines.
- Getting a COVID-19 test.
- Childcare and schools.
