St. Louis County reported 24 COVID-19 deaths and 68 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, May 8. The county has now reported 244 deaths and 3792 cases since the onset of the pandemic.
The county has stopped transparently reporting raw numbers for deaths or cases by race. However, it reports that the death rate for COVID-19 for blacks was twice that of whites and that blacks are more than three times more likely to test positive. The American has asked the county to go back to reporting the raw numbers.
With 244 deaths in 3792 cases, 6.4% of those in the county who were reported as testing positive have died.
St. Louis County is not reporting the total number of tests administered, so it is not possible to report the percentage of those tested who tested positive.
St. Louis County announced plans to gradually lift its stay-at-home public health order on May 18, though deaths and cases continue to rise and hospitalizations have not started to decrease, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force.