Jefferson County Public Health: Nearly 90 percent of COVID cases are unvaccinated residents

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Nearly 90 percent of the COVID-19 cases confirmed in Jefferson County since Feb. 1 have been in residents who weren't vaccinated, according to Jefferson County Public Health.

Fully vaccinated residents have made up only 10.7 percent of the county's COVID cases since the start of February.

Health officials reported eight new confirmed cases of coronavirus Friday, and noted that recent COVID-19 cases have been primarily due to the highly transmissible Delta variant.

One new hospitalization of a resident due to COVID-19 was also reported Friday.

The new cases pushed the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Jefferson County to 581.

Positive COVID test results were reported across the county; three in Port Townsend, three in the mid-county area, and two in south county.

Five of the new infections involved females; the other three involved males.

The new cases spanned a wide spectrum of ages. Positive test results were reported Friday for one resident in their 20s, one residents in their 30s, one resident in their 40s, two residents in their 50s, two residents in their 60s, and one resident in their 70s.

A total of 45 residents were still in isolation Friday due to potential COVID-19 contact.

According to Jefferson County Public Health, the results of 46 tests are still pending.

New test results from 94 residents were received Friday.

There have been 27,737 tests for COVID-19 in Jefferson County since the start of the pandemic, and 27,110 have resulted in negative results.

In Jefferson County, 468 people have recovered from COVID-19 and 41 people have been hospitalized for the disease. (People are considered "recovered" at 28 days from the onset of symptoms if they are alive and not hospitalized, according to the state Department of Health.)

Four deaths of Jefferson County residents have been linked to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.