Washington state reports 2,319 new COVID-19 cases on Monday

[TexasTowelie]

The Washington State Department of Health on Monday reported 2,319 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 71 new deaths. The death count also covers the weekend, as the department no longer reports deaths on weekends.

Pierce County reported 166 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and four additional deaths. Pierce County had a total of 235 deaths likely caused by COVID-19 as of Monday, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.

Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are at 165,019 cases and 2,774 deaths, up from 162,700 cases and 2,703 deaths on Sunday.

King County continues to have the highest numbers in Washington, with 44,348 cases and 881 deaths. Yakima County has 13,770 cases and 297 deaths. Pierce is second in cases with 17,164.

Read more: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/coronavirus/article247516285.html
(Tacoma News Tribune)

[MFM008]

1. It is down

there were 6,227 new cases on November 23.........

71 deaths yesterday though.............

[Mike Niendorff]

2. Both numbers are wrong, unfortunately.

The numbers from last weekend were skewed because of a data processing bottleneck (basically the reporting system got maxed out), resulting in a backlog of over 100,000 testing results. The 6k number was the result of that backlog getting cleared. The preceding numbers were artificially low, that number was artificially high.

The Seattle Times covered it well, as did other local news.

https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/washington-state-reports-over-6200-new-covid-19-cases-in-last-three-days

The numbers for this Sunday (posted Monday the 30th), however, were 4400+ (the number cited in the News Tribune is incomplete, don't know why they would use it for a headline number, but apparently they did).

The real reported totals can be reviewed here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/washington/

(Scroll down to the "daily new cases" graph, the 11/30 total was over 4400 when all counties finally reported).

Been watching these numbers closely, for obvious reasons.


MDN