CORONAVIRUS: Slower case-increase rate and other King County, West Seattle trends

As the vacation weekend ends, right here’s our weekly examine of countywide and West Seattle COVID stats from the previous week. General, instances are up countywide for a tenth week, however the price of improve has slowed dramatically; hospitalizations and deaths are down. Listed below are the numbers, from the Public Well being – Seattle/King County dashboard:

*1 p.c extra instances countywide prior to now week than the week earlier than
*Presently averaging 1,244 new day by day instances countywide (up from 1,118 once we checked every week in the past)

*14 p.c fewer hospitalizations countywide prior to now week than the week earlier than
*Presently averaging 15 new hospitalizations day by day (identical as every week in the past)

*16 p.c fewer deaths countywide prior to now two weeks than the 2 weeks earlier than (the dashboard doesn’t provide a one-week increment)
*Presently averaging 2 deaths day by day (identical two-week common as final week)

For West Seattle, we’ve got two-week comparisons (these are the mixed totals from two “well being reporting areas,” labeled West Seattle and Delridge):
*1,043 instances between 5/9 and 5/23, up from 730 between 4/24 and 5/8
*8 hospitalizations between 5/9 and 5/23, identical as between 4/24 and 5/8
*No deaths between 5/9 and 5/23, identical as between 4/24 and 5/8

VACCINATION: Boosters are actually really useful for everybody 5 and up. Checking vaccination charges:
*81.2 p.c of all King County residents have accomplished the preliminary collection (up .1% from every week in the past)
*85.9 p.c of all King County residents ages 5 and up have accomplished the preliminary collection (unchanged from every week in the past)
*49.4 p.c of all King County residents have had the preliminary collection plus a booster (up .2% from every week in the past)

*In West Seattle, listed here are the zip-code vaccination charges for ages 5 and up (reminder, 98106 and 98146 usually are not totally inside WS):
98106 – 88.2% accomplished preliminary collection (unchanged from every week earlier), 53.4% have had a booster
98116 – 93,1% accomplished preliminary collection (up .1% from every week earlier), 65.2% have had a booster
98126 – 83.8% accomplished preliminary collection (up .1% from every week earlier), 55.3% have had a booster
98136 – 93.9% accomplished preliminary collection (up .1% from every week earlier), 68.3% have had a booster
98146 – 83.2% accomplished preliminary collection (unchanged from every week earlier), 48.3% have had a booster

VACCINATION AND TESTING, UPDATED HOURS: One pop-up clinic within the week forward – you may get vaccinated at Loop the ‘Lupe, 10 am-3 pm Saturday (June 4th) at Walt Hundley Playfield (thirty fourth/Myrtle) – go right here for an appointment, or simply stroll up. In any other case, search for vaccination places by way of this statewide lookup. … If you wish to get examined and don’t have a package at house, public testing websites embrace the city-supported web site at Nino Cantu Southwest Athletic Advanced (2801 SW Thistle, 9 am-5:30 pm Mondays-Saturdays besides holidays) and the Healing kiosk at Don Armeni Boat Ramp (1220 Harbor SW, 9 am-3 pm Monday-Friday besides holidays). … If you could report self-test outcomes, that’s defined on this web page.