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LAS VEGAS (KLAS)&nbsp;— Nevada’s hospitalizations are down for the second day in a row, while the state’s test positivity continues climbing above 20 percent, data released Saturday shows.After seeing a decline for nearly two weeks, the state’s positivity rate is back up and rising, coming in at 20.9% on Friday.Nevada reported five deaths in the past 24 hours, just two days after a record-setting 59 deaths were reported. Nevada’s 14-day rolling average is now 18 deaths per day.The state reported 784 deaths in December due to COVID-19. The&nbsp;, state health officials noted Tuesday.The 1,825 new COVID-19 cases reported statewide on Friday brought Nevada’s total to 228,871. Clark County reported 1,784 new cases, for a total of 173,634.More than 1,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in Nevada in 58 of the past 60 days.Nevada’s test positivity had dropped below 20 percent on Dec. 18, but increases over the past several days erased a trend of declines that lasted almost two weeks.For the&nbsp;11th&nbsp;week in a row, Clark County was flagged for elevated disease transmission. Clark County remains in the red on Nevada Health Response’s “county criteria tracker.” The county was flagged for elevated disease transmission after meeting the criteria of high case rates and high test positivity. Clark is one of 16 counties flagged in the tracker, updated daily on the DHHS Dashboard.Clark County has a case rate of 2,152 per 100,000, and a test positivity of 20.1 percent.Below is the&nbsp;full COVID-19 report for Friday, Jan. 1.NOTE: The state is not updating hospitalization data, including the number of patients in ICU units or on ventilators,&nbsp;on&nbsp;Sundays&nbsp;or holidays.&nbsp;DHHS updated hospitalization data on Jan. 2, 2021 due to the holiday on Jan. 1.&nbsp;The most recent hospitalization report is from Thursday,&nbsp;Dec. 31.Nevada is continuing to see a resurgence in COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to the Nevada Hospital Association (NHA).According to the state’s&nbsp;, the number of hospitalized patients in Nevada was&nbsp;DOWN&nbsp;for the second day in a row on Thursday, according to data released Friday.The number of hospitalizations decreased by 56 in the last day, and the&nbsp;current total is 1,871&nbsp;confirmed/suspected cases.In its&nbsp;, the Nevada Hospital Association states: “Nevada continues to have COVID19 hospitalizations plateauing at high levels. This is good news in that clinicians and hospitals are gaining some breathing room; this is bad news in that we are not gaining significant excess capacity within our healthcare system.”NHA says peaks associated with Christmas could show up around Jan. 4, and more hospitalizations “a few weeks later” related to New Year’s Eve celebrations.“Currently, hospital occupancy and ICU occupancy levels are declining slightly. This is occurring while COVID cases are remaining within a high range and is most likely attributed to very low influenza related hospitalizations. Currently, only 8 patients (statewide) are reportedly hospitalized with flu. None of these flu patients are in the ICU and half are also positive for COVID-19.”More data from the&nbsp;&nbsp;(as of Dec. 30):The state set a record high for hospitalized patients on Dec. 13 with 2,025 cases.ICU/VENTILATOR DATA FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 31:There were 398 patients in intensive care units (ICU) across the state, a decrease of six from Wednesday.The DHHS report showed 273 patients on ventilators, down five from Wednesday.There are now 228,871 confirmed cases and 3,151 COVID-19-related deaths in Nevada, with 1,825 new cases reported in the last day.More than 1,000 cases have been reported in Nevada in 58 of the past 60 days. The state set a record for COVID-19 cases on Dec. 4 with 3,194.Here are the largest single-day increases for COVID-19 cases in Nevada:The DHHS is reporting five new COVID-19-related deaths statewide. The 14-day rolling average of daily deaths now stands at 18.“Please keep in mind that the death rates we are seeing correspond to cases diagnosed up to 5 weeks ago,” Nevada Health Response stated in a news release.A recent update to the state’s&nbsp;&nbsp;(Mortality Trends tab of DHHS dashboard) shows Dec. 10 had the highest count of fatalities with 43, followed by 41 deaths on Dec. 6.The Nevada DHHS says it is important to note that there is often a delay in death reporting. Cumulative daily death counts are displayed by the date of death, rather than the date the death was reported to the state. The total count for statewide deaths on the first tab may not&nbsp;equal the sum of the cumulative daily death counts because of cases where exact date of death is unknown or pending report.Here are the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths recorded in a single day in Nevada:As of Friday, a total of 2,111,559 tests have been conducted in Nevada, with an increase of&nbsp;15,781&nbsp;in the past 24 hours.The test positivity is now being reported as a 14-day average, which puts it at&nbsp;20.9%&nbsp;as of Friday. It&nbsp;&nbsp;but before then, Nevada had not recorded a test positivity at or above 10% since Sept. 1.*NOTE: Daily lab data from DHHS and SNHD reports is updated every morning for the&nbsp;previous day.Of Nevada’s 1,825 new COVID-19 cases, more than 97 percent of them — 1,784 —&nbsp;were reported in Clark County on Friday, according to data released by the&nbsp;&nbsp;on Saturday.There is now a total of 2,388 deaths, 173,634 confirmed cases and 10,285 hospitalizations, according to the Southern Nevada Health District dashboard that&nbsp;.Like Nevada, Clark County is experiencing a resurgence in hospitalizations.There were four new deaths reported in Clark County in the last day. In its most recent report, the health district states that 103.0 people have died for every 100,000 people in Clark County.SNHD data shows that&nbsp;&nbsp;were reported in the county over the past seven days.About a third of the cases (32.2%) reported in Clark County are among Hispanics, making it the most impacted ethnic group locally and nearly half (46.3%) of the positive cases reported in the county are in the age group of 25 to 49.The SNHD is including the number of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in its daily report.&nbsp;Twelve new cases have been reported in December, including the most recent on Dec. 31, bringing the total to 31. Three additional cases were reported on Dec. 29.An additional eight cases were added in November. All of these cases were reported in children under the age of 14, and all of whom tested positive for COVID-19.MIS-C is a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs.&nbsp;According to the health district, MIS-C is rare and is still being studied by the CDC to learn more about it and its impact on children. While there isn’t a known cause, many children with MIS-C had the virus that causes COVID-19 or close contact with someone who did.The number of people who have recovered from the virus in Clark County continues to increase. As of Friday, the county estimates a total of 154,577 recovered cases; that’s 89% of all reported cases in the county, according to&nbsp;.&nbsp;The health district provides&nbsp;.UNLV has changed the way it is reporting COVID-19 cases. At the end of each week, the university will update its graph noting new cases.According to the most recent report, 21 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the last week, seven among students, six involving staff, and eight faculty members. A total of 585 cases, including both students and employees, have been recorded since UNLV began tracking COVID-19 data on March 25.Governor Sisolak&nbsp;, due to end Dec. 15, through Jan. 15, 2021. This comes as Nevada continues to see an increase in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.Nearly two weeks before the statewide pause announcement, Gov. Sisolak pleaded with Nevadans to follow a&nbsp;. Sisolak said the state needed these two weeks to bring testing timelines down, catch up on contact tracing and relieve Nevada’s healthcare infrastructure.During a&nbsp;, Gov. Sisolak said the state is starting to see a fall surge of COVID-19. He made it clear that it is not the time to let up on mask-wearing and social distancing.Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Tuesday, Sept. 29, that the group gathering limit will adjust to 250 people — five times the current limit of 50 people under COVID-19 regulations.The change took effect Thursday, Oct. 1.This means that many events can soon return to Nevada, including live performances and church services.&nbsp;.Nevada is still continuing to get a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, and is seeing progress with the downward trend of hospitalizations and cases. In August , Gov. Sisolak announced that Nevada’s new long-term plan will be state managed, but locally executed.Here is a quick breakdown of how it works:For&nbsp;.After Gov. Sisolak extended Phase 1 restrictions of bars in Clark County on July 10, the Nevada COVID-19 Mitigation &amp; Management Task Force voted Sept. 17 to allow Clark County bars, taverns, wineries, and similar businesses to reopen. The establishments reopened on Sept. 20.&nbsp;The state transitioned into&nbsp;, after a directive in mid-March that forced all non-essential businesses to close to avoid the spread of the coronavirus., June 9,&nbsp;that Nevada’s COVID-19 data is showing an above-average daily increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the state. They are reminding Nevadans of precautionary measures that can be taken to minimize the spread of the virus such as staying at home when possible, wearing a face-covering in public, maintaining six feet of social distancing and keeping up with proper hand hygiene.SEE ALSO:&nbsp;More coverage:and× Close Ad

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)&nbsp;— Nevada’s hospitalizations are down for the second day in a row, while the state’s test positivity continues climbing above 20 percent, data released Saturday shows.After seeing a decline for nearly two weeks, the state’s positivity rate is back up and rising, coming in at 20.9% on Friday.Nevada reported five deaths in the past 24 hours, just two days after a record-setting 59 deaths were reported. Nevada’s 14-day rolling average is now 18 deaths per day.The state reported 784 deaths in December due to COVID-19. The&nbsp;, state health officials noted Tuesday.The...

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