Southern Nevada health officials started a new process to identify when fully vaccinated people get COVID-19. It changed the way data was reported.
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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.
Dozens of Nevada residents have been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated; two deaths were reported in Clark County.
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.
Clark County’s two mass COVID-19 vaccination sites, as well as smaller sites, are operating well below capacity.