Case updates December 15, 2020; more doses of vaccine on the way

The Washington State Department of Health anticipates receiving tens of thousands more doses of COVID-19 vaccine later this week, as vaccinations continue for frontline health workers and long-term care residents and staff across the state.

These groups are the first and only people eligible to receive the vaccine at this time.

31,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have already arrived in Washington, and we’ll be getting 29,250 additional doses later this week.

As of midday Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at least 410 doses of vaccine have been administered to these groups in Washington.

The department estimates it will take until around mid- to late January to finish vaccinating these groups and begin offering the vaccine to the next eligible groups.


Case updates December 15, 2020

United States

• cases 16,519,668 - 201,776 cases since yesterday
• deaths 302,992 - 2,960 deaths since yesterday

Washington state - the DOH is still reviewing and adjusting numbers

• cases 214,265 - includes 7,671 probable cases
• hospitalizations 13,074 - 301 since last report
• deaths 3,042 - 89 since last report - no reports on weekends

King county

• cases 55,212 - 363 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 3,765 - 17 since yesterday
• deaths 954 - 6 since yesterday

Seattle - population 744,995 (2018)

• cases 13,860 - 81 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 901 - 6 since yesterday
• deaths 236 - 2 since yesterday

Shoreline - population 56,752 (2018)

• cases 1,428 - 10 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 147 - -1 since yesterday
• deaths 76 - 0 since yesterday

Lake Forest Park - 13,569 (2018)

• cases 168 - 0 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 15 - 0 since yesterday
• deaths 3 - 0 since yesterday