Clark County Public Health reported 18 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths Wednesday.
The new cases bring the county’s total cases to 2,649 to date, with 51 deaths reported. There are 16 people hospitalized with COVID-19 and six people hospitalized awaiting test results.
New statistics updated this week show that the largest share of new cases were among people in their 20s, with 34 new cases representing 19.4 percent of the weekly change, according to Public Health.
The next largest share was people in their 40s (33 new cases, 18.8 percent of the total), followed by people in their 50s (25 new cases, 14.2 percent of the total).
There were 10 new cases for children younger than age 9 and 18 new cases for children ages 10-19, according to the Public Health data, accounting for 5.7 percent and 10.2 percent of the total for the period.
Other age-based statistics show 22 new cases for people in their 60s (12.5 percent of the total) and 21 new cases for people in their 30s (12 percent of the total).
The smallest number of new cases was in those age 80 or older, with three new cases during the previous week, or 1.7 percent of the total. People in their 70s were the next smallest group, with 9 new cases, or 5.1 percent of the total.
The weekly changes are similar to but not an exact match to the total confirmed cases to date by age group reported by Public Health. For example, the rate of new cases for the week was larger than the total share of cases for people younger than 19 and people in their 40s and 60s, but it was lower for people in their 30s.
Weekly data updates can be viewed at Clark County Public Health’s website at www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/novel-coronavirus.
