Case updates December 6, 2020; State DOH dealing with backlog and unresolved duplicates

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is announcing 6,972 new cases of COVID-19 today in the state, a number that reflects both a backlog of COVID-19 positive lab test results received over the weekend and approximately 1,800 duplicates that have not yet been resolved.

DOH has caught up with processing most of the backlog in positive COVID-19 test results created by temporary system slowdowns last week. Those slowdowns occurred as a result of upgrading servers. The high number of new cases reported today partially reflects the backlog created by these delays.

DOH estimates there are up to 1,800 duplicate cases in today’s total case counts. These duplicates will be removed from the dataset in the future as we catch up on our deduplication process.

Case updates December 6, 2020

United States

• cases 14,636,914 - 174,387 cases since yesterday
• deaths 281,253 - 1,118 deaths since yesterday

Washington state - see opening paragraph

• cases 184,404 - 6,957 since last report
• hospitalizations 11,696 - 152 since last report
• deaths 2,941 - 16 since last report

King county

• cases 49,739 - 2,121 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 3,449 - 49 since yesterday
• deaths 903 - 9 since yesterday

Seattle - population 744,995 (2018)

• cases 12,429 - 666 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 815 - 19 since yesterday
• deaths 211 - 2 since yesterday

Shoreline - population 56,752 (2018)

• cases 1,272 - 71 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 138 - 1 since yesterday
• deaths 74 - 1 since yesterday

Lake Forest Park - 13,569 (2018)

• cases 145 - 4 since yesterday
• hospitalizations 8 - 0 since yesterday
• deaths 2 - 0 since yesterday