DC-Area COVID-19 Fatalities (Through 6 April 2020)

Unlike the confirmed COVID-19 infection counts, COVID-19-associated fatalities has been considerably more difficult to track, and the blame entirely lies on the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) not providing county/county-equivalent statistics on the location of fatalities. It's gotten worse since late March, when at least VDH was following up with press releases on the fatalities within a day or two. Now it's just a batch number allocated to one of the "Health Planning Regions"; conveniently the "Northern" Health Planning Region aligns exactly with my own definition of Northern Virginia.

Unfortunately, there's a discrepancy between the daily number assigned to the Northern Virginia Health Planning Region and the actual fatalities that I can confirm. For instance as of 6 April, VDH claimed 18 fatalities in Northern Virginia, when I could only account for 16. So long as this gap remains modest, I'll go with my own count. But if the gap really starts to swell up, I may have to just go with the daily regional update.

The Maryland Department of Health does a really good job of providing geographic detail for fatalities, while DC Health's fatality count obviously doesn't need to be parsed out by region.

6 April Regional Fatalities: 85*

Maryland: 48
DC: 22
Virginia: 15*

Maryland (48)
Frederick County: 4
Montgomery County: 19
Prince George's County: 23
Charles County: 2

District of Columbia (22)

Virginia (15*)
Arlington County: 2
City of Alexandria: 0
Fairfax County: 6
Loudoun County: 4
Prince William County: 3

*VDH reports "Northern Virginia Health Planning Region" (covering the same jurisdictions listed above) as 18. I use 15, as I was able to independently verify that figure.



The decrease in DC's fatality count (from 24 to 22 between 5 and 6 April) was due to a post-publication revisions by DC Health.

Data since 29 March (see this blog post for data up to 29 March):
Date Maryland DC Virginia Total DC Area
30-Mar-20 9 9 8 26
31-Mar-20 11 11 8 30
1-Apr-20 15 12 9 36
2-Apr-20 18 15 11 44
3-Apr-20 21 21 11 53
4-Apr-20 25 22 12 59
5-Apr-20 34 24 14 72
6-Apr-20 48 22 15 85

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