Every state is seeing some increase in coronavirus cases. King County, Wash., is my old stomping grounds as a local emergency manager. Compared to other parts of the United States, e.g. Iowa, their stats below look great. Iowa has a 46 percent positive rate for all tests. Yikes!!
Every county and state should be reporting where they are so people have something with which to gauge if things are getting better or worse. Stats below:
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Count
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New since yesterday
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Percent
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Count
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Percent
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Positives
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35,993
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283
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3.6% of all tests
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6,812
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6.1%
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Hospitalizations
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2,903
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13
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8.1% of all positive cases
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227
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3.3%
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Deaths due to COVID-19 illness
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834
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1
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2.3% of all positive cases
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17
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0.2%
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All test results
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1,008,893
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7,239
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111,221
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People tested
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603,808
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3,473
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49,625
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Indicator
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Target/Range
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Current Status
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% of tests that were positive (14-day average)
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<5%
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6.1%
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Cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 days
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High
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> 75 cases/100K/14 days
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294 cases/100K/14 days
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Moderate
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25-75 cases/100K/14 days
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Low
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< 25 cases/100K/14 days
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Trend in rate of hospitalizations
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Flat or decreasing
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Increasing
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All other COVID-19 dashboards are posted at www.kingcounty.gov/covid/data
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.