Click here to access week 49 of the Kitsap Respiratory Illness Report.
In week ending Dec. 9, RSV indicators in Kitsap County remained high, and influenza indicators were elevated and rising. COVID-19 activity remains low. There was one laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated death, which occurred during the past week.
1.5% of emergency department (ED) visits were attributable to COVID-19, 1.2% were attributable to influenza, and 0.9% were attributable to RSV. Kitsap sentinel reporting labs reported 83 positive COVID-19 tests (11.2% of specimens tested), 51 positive influenza tests (42 influenza A, 9 influenza B; 9.1% of specimens tested), and 37 positive RSV tests (13.0% of specimens tested).
On average, around 10 hospital beds at St. Michael Medical Center were in use per day for COVID-19 or influenza patients.
At Kitsap long-term care facilities, there have been five COVID-19 outbreaks reported in the past four reporting weeks, and no influenza outbreaks.