Whatcom surpasses 16,000 confirmed COVID cases and sees another death reported Friday
Nov. 13—Whatcom County surpassed 16,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases during the pandemic and saw another COVID-related death reported over the Veterans' Day holiday.
Whatcom has now had 168 deaths related to COVID-19, according to the Washington State Department of Health's COVID-19 Data Dashboard on Friday, Nov. 12. Friday's data release included two days' worth of data, as no report was made Thursday as the state observed Veteran's Day.
The death reported Friday was for a resident who first tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 29, The Bellingham Herald's analysis of the state's epidemiological data showed. It represents the 13th epidemiological death the county has seen in October and increased the county's total number of deaths since Aug. 1 to 56, The Herald found. No deaths have been epidemiologically linked to November yet.
With 6,970 total cases (confirmed and probable combined) in the county since Aug. 1, Whatcom has seen 0.8% of cases during that time frame result in death, The Herald's analysis showed. That is still better than the county's pandemic death average of 1.0%, according to the state's data, and the statewide 1.2% rate.
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