Teens, younger adults driving COVID-19 surge in Clark County

Clark County connected Tuesday reported 1,216 caller coronavirus cases and 21 deaths amid caller information showing that cases are rising fastest among teenagers and younger adults.

Updated figures posted by the Southern Nevada Health District pushed totals for the region to 361,484 cases and 6,436 deaths.

Both figures were apt inflated by delayed reporting pursuing the weekend, erstwhile immoderate agencies don’t taxable caller cases oregon deaths to the state. The region hadn’t reported a decease for 4 days earlier Tuesday’s report.

New cases successful Clark County were much than treble the two-week moving average, which accrued by 7 to 597. Fatalities were 7 times the moving mean of 3 per day, though the mean itself declined from five.

The county’s trial positivity rate, which tracks the percent of radical tested for the illness who are recovered to beryllium infected, accrued by 0.6 percent constituent to 9.4 percent, up from its caller debased of 5.8 percent successful aboriginal November.

That represented the 2nd consecutive time of a accelerated summation to the metric, which hasn’t been this precocious since Sept. 3, arsenic the summertime surge was ending.

The fig of radical hospitalized with confirmed oregon suspected cases of COVID-19 successful the region accrued by 29, to 687, according to the authorities Department of Health and Human Services.

Data guide: COVID-19’s interaction connected Nevada

While caller cases person accrued crossed the board, the wellness territory indicates they’ve grown astatine a faster complaint among region residents successful the 18-49 property bracket. As of Dec. 24, the regular caller lawsuit mean per 100,0 colonisation for 18-24 year-olds was astatine 44.7, much than 131 percent higher than the 19.3 reported connected Dec. 16.

That complaint stood astatine 46.7 for 25-49 year-olds, astir treble the 26.0 reported connected Dec. 16.

The precise young besides person been getting sicker much often during the existent question of the illness caused by the caller coronavirus, the wellness territory reported. That complaint has jumped from a seven-day mean of 8.2 cases arsenic of Dec. 19 to 13.1 arsenic of Christmas Eve — a leap of astir 60 percent successful nether a week.

The caller surge has pushed the region farther distant from exiting Gov. Steve Sisolak’s look disguise mandate.

While the region tracks astir of its COVID-19 metrics utilizing a 14-day moving average, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transmission hazard classification system, connected which the authorities disguise mandate is based, uses a seven-day average.

As of aboriginal Tuesday, it showed an mean of 188.38 caller cases per 100,000 population, astir 20 much than astatine this clip past week. That is considered a “high” hazard of transmission nether the CDC system.

The 2nd cardinal COVID-19 metric utilized arsenic a gauge for erstwhile a region tin exit the disguise mandate is the trial positivity rate.

Using the CDC’s seven-day average, the complaint stood astatine 17.22 percent, besides successful the “high” hazard of transmission class for that metric.

For a region to exit the authorities disguise mandate for crowded indoor nationalist spaces, it indispensable grounds back-to-back weeks with a seven-day mean lawsuit complaint nether 50 per 100,000 residents and a trial seven-day positivity complaint beneath 8 percent — some considered arsenic posing a “moderate” oregon “low” hazard of transmission by the CDC.

State officials were expected to update Nevada’s disguise guidelines connected Tuesday afternoon.

The state, meanwhile, reported 1,554 caller COVID-19 cases and 25 deaths during the preceding day. That brought Nevada totals posted by the authorities Department of Health and Human Services to 479,231 cases and 8,392 deaths.

Nevada’s 14-day moving mean of caller cases accrued to 704 per time from 703 connected Tuesday. The two-week mean for fatalities held dependable astatine 4 per day.

Of the state’s different intimately watched metrics, the two-week trial positivity complaint roseate by 0.6 percent constituent to 8.7 percent, portion the fig of radical successful Nevada hospitalized with confirmed oregon suspected COVID-19 cases accrued to 789, 43 much than connected Monday. That fig has been connected the emergence for weeks.

As of Tuesday’s report, authorities information amusement that 54.24 percent of Nevadans 5 and older had been afloat vaccinated, compared with 53.55 percent successful Clark County. That fig fluctuates wide passim the state.

This is simply a processing story. Check backmost for updates.

Contact Jonah Dylan astatine jdylan@reviewjournal.com. Follow @TheJonahDylan connected Twitter.