New cases of COVID-19 in Thurston County continued to decrease as the health department reported 254 new cases during the period of Feb. 28 through March 6, but there was an uptick in the number of deaths tallied.
The health department reported 25 deaths during the same time period. Six of the deaths were tallied on Feb. 28 and were previously reported by the Nisqually Valley News, while the other 19 deaths were reported between March 1 and March 7. The 19 deaths reported in March included two women and a man in their 50s, two women and a man in their 60s, five men and four women in their 70s, a man and a woman in their 80s, and two women in their 90s.
The prior week there were 625 COVID-19 cases and no deaths reported between Feb. 21 and Feb. 27.
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) no longer reports death percentages.
Out of the 44,721 total county cases reported by March 8, patients who have recovered or are recovering increased to 44,129, according to the county health department.
As of March 8, DOH reported a total of 2,167 COVID-related hospitalizations in Thurston County.
Health care workers have vaccinated 65% of the population countywide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to DOH.
In neighboring Pierce County, deaths landed at 1.3 per 100,000 population, and new cases decreased to 551.7 per 100,000 population as of March 8, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The total number of cases in the county reached 188,607 as of March 8 with 1,336 deaths, according to DOH.
In Washington state, as of Feb. 28, there were 1,432,321 total confirmed cases of COVID-19, a total of 58,269 people have been hospitalized because of the illness, and 12,076 people have died, according to DOH.
Over 13 million vaccine doses have been administered in the state.
Nationwide, as of March 8, there were 79,094,974 total cases since the start of the pandemic. There were 995,998 confirmed deaths and 81.4% of Americans 5 years old and up have at least one of the vaccinations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). New cases over the last 30 days have been on a downward trajectory, while new deaths over the last 30 days are also on a steady downward trend, CDC graphs indicated.
