Although showing fluctuations, both hospitalizations and case numbers have been trending downward. Statewide, they increased by 13 percent, to 248 from 219 a week ago. Eleven percent of emergency room visits are related to COVID-19 symptoms, the same percentage as last week and a proportion that has been declining.Ĭonfirmed and suspected COVID-19 hospitalizations increased in the county by 19 percent to 226 from 190 a week ago. That’s because the population has built up some level of immunity from prior infection and from vaccination, he said.ĬOVID-19 hospitalizations statewide appear to have plateaued, the Nevada Hospital Association stated in a weekly report. “Unless we have some major seismic shift in the strains that are out there, I don’t think anybody would expect us to see some sort of massive increase in COVID,” he said.

Labus does not expect to see a major wave of COVID-19, in either the community or the country, for the remainder of the winter. Statewide, cases declined to 132 from the prior week’s 188, a decrease of 30 percent. In Clark County, the 14-day average for new confirmed cases decreased to 104, down 31 percent from the prior week’s 150, according to data posted Wednesday by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. State data shows that Nevada’s declines are even steeper. Nationwide, new cases have dropped 24 percent over the prior week, CDC data shows.

Eastern states with higher numbers of counties are more likely to have at least one at medium or high levels of COVID-19.

One reason that states in the West are faring better, statistically speaking, is that they have fewer and larger counties than do eastern states, said Brian Labus, an epidemiologist and biostatistician with UNLV’s School of Public Health. Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Washington are the only states in which all counties have low community levels of COVID-19 - a metric based on case numbers and hospitalizations - according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all of its counties experiencing low levels of the disease. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) COVID test kit vending machines are seen at the RTC Bonneville Transit Center in June 2022 in Las Vegas.

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