COVID-19 deaths tick higher in Clark County; other metrics mixed

Clark County recorded 452 caller COVID-19 cases and 16 deaths during the preceding day, according to information posted Tuesday by authorities and section nationalist wellness agencies.

Updated figures from the Southern Nevada Health District pushed totals for the region to 325,487 cases of COVID-19 and 5,781 deaths.

New cases were good supra the 14-day moving mean of 356 per day, portion the mean declined by 25 cases from the time prior, according to authorities data.

Fatalities were much than treble the 14-day mean of 7 per day, portion the mean roseate by 1 from Monday’s report.

State and region wellness agencies often redistribute regular information aft it is reported to amended bespeak the day of decease oregon onset of symptoms, which is wherefore the moving-average inclination lines often disagree from regular reports and are considered amended indicators of the absorption of the outbreak.

The county’s trial positivity rate, which tracks the percent of radical tested for COVID-19 who are recovered to beryllium infected, remained unchanged astatine 7.0 percent. The complaint had risen successful the anterior 2 regular updates, but remains little than fractional of its caller precocious of 15.7 percent connected Aug. 8, authorities information show.

Data guide: COVID-19’s interaction connected Nevada

A full of 557 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients were occupying beds astatine region hospitals arsenic of Tuesday’s report, down from 581 the anterior day.

All 4 of the county’s large COVID-19 metrics person been improving since mid- to late-August, but person not yet reached the thresholds acceptable for the lifting of Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s look disguise mandate.

But the region is expected to deed a milestone connected the roadworthy to removing the mandate aboriginal Tuesday, aft signaling back-to-back weeks with a positivity complaint of 8.0 percent oregon little arsenic calculated utilizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s preferred seven-day moving average. As of Friday, the astir caller information disposable from the CDC showed Clark County’s positivity complaint astatine 7.45 percent.

If certified astatine a play gathering of authorities nationalist wellness officials, the region volition beryllium halfway to gathering the criteria to assistance the mandate. To bash so, it besides astir indispensable grounds a seven-day mean of less than 50 caller COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents successful backmost to backmost weeks. As of Friday, the county’s complaint stood astatine 120.04 cases per 100,000, down much than 20 cases per time from the anterior week.

The authorities Department of Health and Human Services, meanwhile, connected Tuesday reported 891 caller COVID-19 cases and 30 deaths implicit the preceding day.

The updated figures posted connected the state’s coronavirus website pushed totals to 428,934 cases and 7,345 deaths.

New cases were good supra the 14-day moving mean of 559 per day, portion the mean itself dropped by 53 from the 612 reported connected Monday.

Deaths were acold supra the 14-day mean of 11, which was up 1 from Monday’s report.

Remembering Nevadans mislaid to COVID-19

The state’s positivity complaint continued its astir two-month decline, shedding different 0.1 percent constituent to 8.2 percent.

Hospitalizations of confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases declined by 20 from the preceding day’s study to 758.

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