All COVID-19 metrics for Clark County show slight improvement

Clark County connected Monday reported 460 caller COVID-19 cases and nary caller deaths implicit the preceding 3 days arsenic each 4 cardinal metrics for the illness showed improvement.

Updated figures from the Southern Nevada Health District pushed totals for the region to 343,399 cases and 6,169 deaths.

New cases for Friday done Sunday averaged 153 per day, good beneath the two-week moving mean of 302 cases per day. The mean was down from the 312 reported connected Wednesday, the astir caller time the complaint could beryllium calculated due to the fact that of a spread successful authorities data.

The region decease toll from the illness caused by the caller coronavirus declined by 1 during the period, according to wellness territory figures. It was not instantly wide what caused the revision, but officials person antecedently corrected tallies aft discovering that immoderate cases oregon deaths had been counted doubly oregon aft determining that the unfortunate was not a region resident.

The county’s different cardinal COVID-19 metrics — hospitalizations and trial positivity complaint — had not been updated since Wednesday, arsenic the authorities did not study information either Thursday oregon Friday due to the fact that of the Thanksgiving holiday. Both showed flimsy improvements.

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Hospitalizations of confirmed and suspected cases successful region hospitals stood astatine 575 arsenic of Monday’s update, down by 3 from Wednesday.

The county’s trial positivity rate, which tracks the percent of radical tested who are recovered to beryllium infected, declined by 0.2 percent points from Wednesday’s study to 6.7 percent. The complaint has present dropped by 0.4 percent points from its caller precocious of 7.1 percent connected Nov. 19.

All 4 indicators had been declining steadily from mid-August done September earlier turning higher astatine the opening of November. The latest information amusement that rates person turned little implicit the past week oregon so.

That was besides reflected successful information from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which measures metrics utilizing a seven-day moving mean alternatively than the 14-day span favored by the state. As of Monday, it showed Clark County successful the “substantial” hazard transmission category, down from the “high” hazard class wherever it has been since the opening of the month.

For the region to exit the state’s disguise mandate for indoor nationalist spaces it indispensable grounds backmost to backmost weeks with a trial positivity complaint of 8.0 percent oregon little and a caller lawsuit ratio nether 50 cases per 100,000 population. As of Monday, those figures stood astatine 7.76 percent positivity complaint and 92.38 cases per 100,000.

The state, meanwhile, reported 1,823 COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths implicit the preceding 5 days.

Updated figures posted by the Department of Health and Human Services pushed totals to 456,803 cases and 7,985 deaths.

Divided by five, the mean for the play of astir 365 cases per time was good beneath the 14 time moving mean of 426 per day.

Fatalities implicit the play besides were good beneath the 14-day mean of 7 per day.

The trial positivity complaint stood astatine 7.2 percent, down 0.3 percent points from Wednesday’s report.

The authorities reported 719 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 hospitalizations arsenic of Monday, unchanged from Wednesday’s report.

Contact Mike Brunker astatine mbrunker@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-4656. Follow @mike_brunker connected Twitter.