WA DOH was at 1012 yesterday, so 175 new today. King County had a drop of 7. 78 new reported by counties, 175 “unassigned” to a county.
Part of their analysis is the “unassigned”. Hard to reconcile those with the new cases each county reports.
And they aren’t showing increase/decrease from day prior. I’m running a daily spreadsheet. New cases are +/- a few from leveling off.
As noted elsewhere, we’ll likely see a rise once test kits are widely used.
I’ve been watching King County as well. Keep us posted with your data.
I am trying to keep track of Washington state as well. The DOH in Washington on March 17 showed 1012 positive and 13,117 negative.
For today, March 18, it is 1187 positive and 15,918 negative.
So it appears that there was a rise of 185 positive but there were more than 2,000 more negative.
There were six deaths but I believe that three were the nursing home deaths that have been occurring here.
So more testing, a lot more positives and some more negatives.
Also it appears that more younger people seem to be getting tested as the statistics for them testing positive are rising.