Pierce County's COVID-19 Metrics Fall To Phase 1 Levels
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 3:19 pm PT Replies(4) (Shutterstock / Paul Marcoe) TACOMA, WA — The Tacoma - Pierce County Health Department reported a 14-day coronavirus case rate of 379.1 per 100,000 residents, and a hospitalization rate of 10.8 per 100,000 on Thursday. Those rates are both high enough that, had the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) performed its three-week review that day, Pierce County would have been rolled back into Phase 1 — imposing much more severe COVID-19 restrictions including a full ban on indoor dining and harsher limits on sporting events and entertai...