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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.
A trade show in Las Vegas will utilize V-Health Passport, and Clear’s Health Pass is already in use at Golden Knights games.
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.
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.
Data shows fewer doses have gone to residents of Black and Latino neighborhoods with high COVID-19 cases. The disparities have raised alarm among health officials.
For the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, the Southern Nevada Health District voluntarily published a list of Clark County’s most common “possible exposure sites.”
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The temporary Flamingo Road bridge over Koval Lane will be reduced for this year’s Formula One race to lessen impacts on area businesses, officials said.
The awards ceremony was a highlight of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant week that confirmed the city as a global dining destination.
A pedestrian was found dead south of Harry Reid International Airport in what police are describing as a possible hit-and-run.
Vegas Stronger CEO Dave Marlon said the most effective members of the organization’s street team have personal experience with homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness.