King County COVID-19 updates for January 4, 2021

King County, Washington sent this bulletin at 01/04/2021 10:20 PM PST

COVID-19 vaccine data at a glance

Located on the lower right column of the page is a small table displaying the number of vaccine doses allocated to King County so far and the number of people who have received at least their first dose.

Training videos for King County schools and child care facilities

Watch a series of COVID-19 Response Toolkit Orientation and Training videos including guidelines on roles and responsibilties, symptom screening, recognizing symptoms, what to do with positive cases, and guidance for returning to school.

Straight Talk About the New Variant COVID-19 Strain

A compilation of tweets from Dr. Jeff Duchin, Chief Health Officer of Public Health - Seattle & King County posted on January 2nd on the new COVID-19 strain.

At-a-glance daily case data since yesterday:

 

Overall

Past 14 days
  Count New since yesterday Percent Count Percent
Positives 64,912 334 4.6% of all tests 6,057 10.7%
Hospitalizations 4,296 47 6.6% of all positive cases 330 5.4%
Deaths due to COVID-19 illness 1,096 5 1.7% of all positive cases 61 1.0%
All test results 1,405,200 11,625 * 56,834  
People tested 759,558 3,892   23,207  

*12-14-20: WA State Department of Health has resumed reporting on negative laboratory results. There remains a large backlog of negative lab results that have not yet been processed (about 100,000 negative lab results). The count of people tested and all test results are underestimated as WA DOH processes this backlog. As a result, the test positivity reported on this dashboard is overestimated, especially in the most recent week.

11-24-20: On November 21, the WA State Department of Health paused reporting on negative laboratory results. Data on test results, people tested, and test positivity has been frozen on this dashboard through November 21. Data on positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths will continue to be updated on a daily basis.

All other COVID-19 dashboards are posted at www.kingcounty.gov/covid/data

View COVID-19 daily email alerts online posted in the past week.