Beneath is the full COVID-19 report for Thursday, Sept. 16
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada studies greater than 1,300 new COVID-19 instances and 24 deaths in information launched as we speak.
Most of the measurements utilized by the state are close to — or decrease — than the place they had been two weeks in the past, earlier than the Labor Day weekend. The newest spike in infections adopted the July 4 vacation weekend.
With 1,371 new instances — 681 in Clark County — the case counts stay above 1,000 statewide, which has been a development with few exceptions for the reason that center of July..
Of the state’s 24 deaths, 17 had been in Clark County.
Check positivity was down barely statewide at 11.3% after yesterday’s report of 11.4%. Clark County’s take a look at positivity price was unchanged at 8.8%.
Nevada continues to be labeled a spot with excessive COVID-19 transmission and Clark County stays “an space of concern,” in keeping with an updated White House report. The county was first labeled a “sustained scorching spot” on July 5.
Virtually all of Nevada is labeled as a “excessive transmission” space. The CDC is utilizing instances per 100,000 over the previous seven days to find out excessive transmission.
There are 179.5 new instances reported per 100,000 each seven days in Clark County, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A BREAKDOWN OF CASES, DEATHS AND TESTING
Nevada’s case rely grew by 1,371 over the previous day, 681 in Clark County — slightly below half of the state complete. The state’s complete instances at the moment are at 410,104. Clark County has a complete of 314,282. It’s essential to notice that the state no longer updates the dashboard on the weekend or holidays, which can be why Monday and Tuesday studies present greater case and dying totals.
Nevada’s take a look at positivity price is at 11.3%, down from 11.4% yesterday. It fell under 5.0%, the World Well being Group’s objective, on Could 17 and climbed above it on June 28. Clark County’s price has fallen to eight.8%, unchanged from yesterday.
Of the 24 extra COVID-19-related deaths, 17 had been from Clark County. Southern Nevada now accounts for five,446 of the state’s 6,845 deaths. The 14-day rolling common is 11 deaths per day.
As of Sept. 2, the well being district studies there are 112 breakthrough deaths. The county’s dashboard has not up to date details about breakthrough instances, hospitalizations and deaths since that report.
As of yesterday, a complete of 4,236,823 COVID-19 assessments have been performed in Nevada, with a rise of 12,096 since yesterday.
*NOTE: Day by day lab information from DHHS and SNHD studies is up to date each morning for the earlier day.
TRACKING NV COUNTIES
July 6 was the primary time since March 3 that Clark County had been flagged for elevated illness transmission (A county is flagged for elevated illness transmission if it meets two or three of the above standards). In as we speak’s report, Clark stays flagged, together with Carson Metropolis, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey, and Washoe counties.
Clark County’s case price (705 per 100,000 over the previous 30 days) and take a look at positivity price (8.8%) are flagged in information reported as we speak. Testing (337 assessments per day per 100,000) is inside the state’s acceptable vary.
VACCINATION UPDATE
The state’s well being division studies 3,022,682 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Nevada, as of Sept. 16.
As of as we speak, greater than 53% of Nevadans at the moment eligible for the vaccine are totally vaccinated, and 63% of the eligible inhabitants has initiated vaccinations. Clark County studies that 53% of its eligible residents are totally vaccinated.
A BREAKDOWN OF NEVADA HOSPITALIZATIONS
NOTE: The state just isn’t updating hospitalization information on weekends or holidays.
Based on the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the variety of hospitalized sufferers in Nevada was DOWN (-36) since yesterday.
The present variety of hospitalizations is 1,037 confirmed/suspected instances. Hospitals reported 238 of these sufferers had been in intensive care models, and 147 had been on ventilators. To offer some perspective, the state set a file excessive for hospitalized sufferers on Dec. 13 with 2,025 instances.
Within the Nevada Hospitalization’s most recent report, the decline in hospitalizations is “solely pushed by slowing hospitalizations inside Clark County.”
Emergency rooms statewide are overcrowded, and are being inundated by individuals looking for fast COVID-19 assessments to return to work or college.
“The NHA is now encouraging everybody to keep away from hospital emergency rooms for COVID-19 testing and as a substitute go to one of many many different accessible choices,” in keeping with the report.
Staffing alerts stay in place for all Nevada medical amenities. That’s only one step under “disaster” stage.
“Rural Nevada has reached a file excessive variety of hospitalized COVID-19 sufferers. The vast majority of these sufferers are unvaccinated. The quantity could also be skewed from earlier waves as a result of rural amenities are experiencing problem transferring sufferers to city medical facilities for intensive care.”
RECOVERY CASES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA
The quantity of people that have recovered from the virus in Southern Nevada continues to extend. The newest county replace estimates a complete of 297,296 recovered instances; that’s 94.6% of all reported instances within the county, in keeping with SNHD’s latest report.
The well being district offers a daily map with the number of positive tests in each ZIP code in Clark County.
MITIGATION MEASURES IN NEVADA
Nevada reopened to 100% capacity on June 1 and social distancing pointers lifted, serving to the state return to largely pre-pandemic occasions, with some exceptions.
The CDC reversed course on July 27, saying totally vaccinated People in areas with “substantial and excessive” transmission ought to put on masks indoors when in public as COVID-19 instances rise. Most of Nevada falls into these two danger classes.
Nevada said it would adopt the CDC’s guidance with the new mask guideline that went into impact at 12:01 a.m. on July 30. This overrides Clark County’s employee mask mandate, which went into impact in mid-July.
On Aug. 16, Gov. Sisolak signed a new directive that enables totally vaccinated attendees at giant gatherings to take away their masks, however provided that the venue chooses to require everybody in attendance to supply proof of vaccination. Those that have only one shot and aren’t “totally vaccinated” would nonetheless be allowed to attend, as would kids below 12, however each would wish to put on masks.
Masks nonetheless have to be worn when required by federal, state, native, tribal, or territorial legal guidelines, guidelines and rules, together with native companies and office steering.
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