Jun. 4 Pierce County reported 46 new COVID-19 cases Friday with two new deaths. The latest deaths involved a Puyallup man in his 60s and a Lake Tapps/Sumner area man in his 60s. 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, .
Attendees worship at the Week of Awakening conference at Seattle Revival Center. The conference is linked to an August 2020 Covid outbreak with 28 cases and no deaths. Credit: Courtesy of Seattle Revival Center
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Gail Fleming, a pastor, got Covid last summer from a church conference.
Even so, Fleming is glad she went, she said, and that she would do it again. Thatâs how much she felt the experience was worth it. When we all come together, there s just a beautiful synergy in the Holy Spirit that feeds our soul, feeds our spirit, makes us come alive,â she said.
Jun. 4 In Pierce County's quest for at least a 70 percent vaccination rate against COVID-19, the county will host walk-in clinics at select restaurants. The initiative has its own website: getvaxxedwa.com. It also has an extra incentive: Visitors to one of these pop-ups can enter a drawing to win two round-trip ticket vouchers on Alaska Airlines. The Washington Hospitality Association .
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is offering in-home vaccine appointments for people who are unable to come to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.