The first dose of COVID-19 vaccine was given to a Las Vegas ICU nurse on Monday.
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Some Southern Nevada hospitals postpone elective surgeries to handle COVID-19 surge.
Because it can be 14 days before a person exposed to the virus becomes ill, it will be a couple of weeks before any spike occurs associated with holiday gatherings.
Nevada health officials say they are trying to reduce the density of people in any environment, balancing policy and political considerations along with data.
The seven-day average for newly reported COVID-19 cases is now 2,019, more than double the number earlier this month.
It is too soon for Gov. Steve Sisolak’s plea to residents to stay home as much as possible for two weeks to be reflected in the data, state officials said.
Numbers of cases, testing positivity rate, hospitalizations are all trending upwards in the state.
Monday’s numbers are below the 14-day averages of 590 daily cases and four deaths.
The state of Nevada reported 232 new cases of COVID-19 Monday morning and no new deaths, continuing a downward trend.
The rt.live website, created by the co-founders of Instagram, calculates that each case of COVID-19 in Nevada is resulting in 1.56 new infections.