Here are the new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday in Pierce County
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
5/5/2021
Debbie Cockrell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
May 5—Pierce County reported 126 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday with one additional death, a Spanaway man in his 70s.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department no longer assigns underlying condition status to individual deaths it reports and instead counts underlying conditions as part of a percentage of the total number of deaths, which as of May 4 was 75.7 percent.
The county's totals are now 45,215 cases and 535 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus case was reported in March 2020.
On May 4, Gov. Jay Inslee announced a pause in taking action based on the state's Roadmap to Recovery metrics after a plateau of cases was observed in the state's overall numbers over the weekend. All counties will remain in their current phase, which, for Pierce, means Phase 2. Pierce was one of three counties to be rolled back in April, with metrics then that were similar to counties now that faced their own rollbacks to Phase 2.