Week 22's COVID-19 Report

Week 22:

All, This post covers where we are for Week 22. Let's recap how we got here. COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus conveyed by small airborne particles - like moisture exhaled during conversation, singing, or a cough. Asymptomatic (aka silent) spreaders are the primary vectors; and, the first few days of an infection (before symptoms occur) present the highest risk for transmission to others. So, unless you have stayed home and not talked to a single person over the last 7 days who has also stayed home for the last 7 days, get tested.

Below you will see data for New Cases and Fatalities. Due to errors in submission of cases (coding errors, not reporting to DSHS, no time stamp, ...) counties are discovering long-lost cases that should have factored into positivity scores over the past month. As a result, I will not present my positivity table because the numbers of such cases will literally "take your breath away".

New cases show that we have been under rollback for 7 weeks now. At the far right of each regional data section is this week's data, which due to reported errors may contain the data which should have been reported at the beginning or during rollback. To the extent that such cases will be backfilled, you won't see these here because the task is a lot more work than your friendly armchair COVID reporter is willing to perform. Especially, when I spent a full day, redoing this week's Fatalities plots that have been backfilled per the updated spreadsheets furnished by DSHS. As shown, Fatalities peaked during the four to five weeks ago.