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Lower-income and minority communities are once again experiencing some of Southern Nevada’s fastest spread of COVID-19, data shows.
Southern Nevada health officials started a new process to identify when fully vaccinated people get COVID-19. It changed the way data was reported.
A healthy 23-year-old died of COVID-19. He was one of more than 360 new deaths announced statewide so far in August, already the state’s fifth-deadliest month of the pandemic.
Since the state reopened businesses in early June, summer surge cases have been concentrated in the south and northwest Las Vegas Valley.
The data represents where an infected person traveled in the 14 days prior to them becoming symptomatic or getting tested. Cases have been rising since early June.
As the highly contagious delta strain takes hold in the Las Vegas Valley, the disease is spreading fastest in affluent suburbs in the west and south, data shows.
“The viruses that unvaccinated people are facing right now are the Olympic champions of infecting people, ” said Mark Pandori, director of the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory.
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Nevada recorded more than 5,000 excess deaths after COVID-19 struck, according to a 50-state national study.
The number of Nevadans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 that later tested positive for the disease has almost doubled. Most are in Clark County.
Clark County’s two mass COVID-19 vaccination sites, as well as smaller sites, are operating well below capacity.
COVID-19 vaccine allocations have been based on an aggregation of how many adults lived in each state from 2014 through 2018, not the most recent population data.
Federal officials have not shared formula determining each state’s weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocation, the head of the state’s response effort said Monday.