Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) records largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases

[BuzzKill]

Pandemic getting worse in Las Vegas

Clark County on Tuesday announced its largest single-day increase of newly identified COVID-19 cases, since the state’s outbreak began in March.
It’s also the largest increase of new cases in the state of Nevada in a single day. The cumulative test positivity rate statewide rose by 0.6 percentage points, only the second time it has increased since early May.
A state health official attributed some of the increase to delayed reporting from the weekend, but she also acknowledged a continued upward trend of new cases over the past three weeks. Medical experts continue to assess the data on a daily basis.
-“The State had the expectation that as a result of reopening and an increase in testing, our positive cases were likely to increase,” Nevada Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Shannon Litz wrote in an email. “We continue to encourage all Nevadans to maintain good hand hygiene, wear a face covering in public and observe 6 feet of social distance with those who are not in your household.”
The Southern Nevada Health District identified 342 new cases in Clark County and estimated an additional 188 more infected people had recovered. The previous high was 242 new cases announced Sunday, according to data posted on the SNHD’s website and updated daily.
Tuesday also marked the county’s highest seven-day average of new cases: 194.
The record number of new cases coincided with one of the biggest days of testing in Clark County. About 5,600 tests were administered, according to state data.
A total of 9,157 cases of COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, have been identified among county residents. More than 6,800 are believed to have recovered.
The county also reported one new death of a COVID-19 patient on Tuesday, raising the countywide total to 380.
Across Nevada, more than 11,600 people have contracted the disease. At least 467 have died.

Las Vegas Review Journal - https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/...ingle-day-increase-in-covid-19-cases-2054130/

 

[BuzzKill]

Experts fear ‘tsunami’ of new coronavirus cases in Nevada

Updated June 17, 2020 - 3:39 am

When asked this week about the record numbers of new cases of the coronavirus in Clark County and in Nevada, some national and local health authorities agreed on a few key points.
They agreed that the increases aren’t simply the result of more people getting tested and that reopening is playing a role in the spike, along with a certain amount of complacency regarding mask-wearing and social distancing.
Despite talk of a “second wave,” they agreed that the county and state are still seeing a first wave of a virus, one that hasn’t stopped.
Where the agreement ends is whether we’ve seen the worst of this first wave of infections.
Julie Swann, a professor who has advised the federal government on flu pandemic response, doesn’t think so.
“I think you’ve seen a ripple, and there’s a tsunami left,” said Swann, who served as a science adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the H1N1 pandemic.
Swann’s comments came as Clark County reported 342 new cases of the virus on Tuesday, the highest number of new cases in a single day. The previous high, 242, was reported on Saturday. Tuesday’s uptick also marked the largest number of new cases in the state in a single day.
The cumulative percentage of people testing positive rose by 0.6 percentage point, only the second increase since early May.
Stopping a pandemic
The pandemic, Swann said, could be stopped one of three ways.
One is that a “country gets complete control over the pandemic, with testing and tracing and such, like you’ve seen in Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, and other places,” said Swann, a professor and department head for the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Another way is through a vaccine. There are hopes that a vaccine can be developed by the end of this year or early next year.
The third is through so-called herd immunity, when 60 percent or more of the population already has been infected, providing them with some level of immunity against to the virus. But Swann estimates that less than 5 percent of Nevada’s population has had the virus, based on a rough formula that there are 100 to 200 cases for every death.
When half your friends have had the virus, “that’s how you know when you’re close” to herd immunity.
Many states so far have seen low rates of infection, with exceptions including New York and neighboring states. These states may have reached their peaks for this wave, with cases on the decline because more residents already have been infected and have some immunity.
In places where few people have been infected or have immunity, the virus can easily pass from person to person, Swann said. The closures of many businesses and restrictions on public life slowed but didn’t stop the spread of the virus.
Flattening the curve
People have forgotten that the aim of these restrictions was to flatten the disease curve, with no expectation of getting rid of the virus, said Karen Duus, an associate professor in microbiology and immunology at Touro University Nevada in Henderson.
“Flattening the curve” means avoiding spikes in illness so extreme that hospitals become overwhelmed by seriously ill patients, which is what happened in New York.
Whether the current spike in cases will turn into a larger trend depends in part on whether people are wearing masks and practicing social distancing, Duus said.
“It really depends on how careful everybody is being,” she said. “And I’m seeing an awful lot of people who aren’t being careful.”
She said she would be surprised to see business closures required again “unless our medical facilities get so overwhelmed that the powers-that-be decide people are going to be dying.”
Statewide, less than 70 percent of hospital and intensive-care beds were filled as of Tuesday.
Reasons for the spike
Dr. Fermin Leguen, acting chief health officer for the Southern Nevada Health District, said the current spike can’t be attributed solely to record amounts of testing.
He pointed to the increase in the past two weeks in the number of people being hospitalized for COVID-19, which isn’t related to how many people are being tested but to how many are seriously ill.
He attributed the spike in part to reopening, but didn’t connect it to protests of police brutality where there were crowds of people who weren’t practicing social distancing.
“At this point really, we don’t have that information available, in terms of establishing a relationship between the protests and the increase,” he said.
He said although it’s “virtually impossible to forecast the behavior of the virus in the future,” he believes that changes in people’s behavior can change the course of the pandemic.
He is advocating for businesses to require patrons to wear masks in public areas to decrease the spread of the virus.
From strictly a public health standpoint, requiring the public to wear masks is a “no brainer,” but there might not be the “political will” to do so, said Brian Labus, a member of the governor’s medical advisory team.
He said the state was closely monitoring the increasing numbers and would take appropriate action as needed, but could not say what action might be taken.
“If those numbers don’t drop back to what they should be, we’ve got a real problem,” said Labus, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UNLV’s School of Public Health. “Is it a bump in the road or is it a change in direction? I don’t think we can say yet.”
“It takes a little while to go from where we are now to that big peak,” Swann said. “And that assumes that nothing changes. If more people start wearing masks, then that peak shifts forward. It does depend on how many people take these additional (protective) measures.”
But based on the current trajectories, she’s expecting many states to see their numbers of new cases “going up, up, up.”

- Mary Hynes, Las Vegas Review-Jornal - https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/...i-of-new-coronavirus-cases-in-nevada-2054806/

 

[StevieRay]

Damn protesters , should have disbanded at the get go

 

[savage1]

Good stuff, Buzz Kill, and most importantly very fairly and objectively stated with no political bias re: blame!

Thanks for posting.

 

[BuzzKill]

 

[BuzzKill]

 

[SportsBookData]

Experts fear ‘tsunami’ of new coronavirus cases in Nevada

Updated June 17, 2020 - 3:39 am

When asked this week about the record numbers of new cases of the coronavirus in Clark County and in Nevada, some national and local health authorities agreed on a few key points.
They agreed that the increases aren’t simply the result of more people getting tested and that reopening is playing a role in the spike, along with a certain amount of complacency regarding mask-wearing and social distancing.
Despite talk of a “second wave,” they agreed that the county and state are still seeing a first wave of a virus, one that hasn’t stopped.
Where the agreement ends is whether we’ve seen the worst of this first wave of infections.
Julie Swann, a professor who has advised the federal government on flu pandemic response, doesn’t think so.
“I think you’ve seen a ripple, and there’s a tsunami left,” said Swann, who served as a science adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the H1N1 pandemic.
Swann’s comments came as Clark County reported 342 new cases of the virus on Tuesday, the highest number of new cases in a single day. The previous high, 242, was reported on Saturday. Tuesday’s uptick also marked the largest number of new cases in the state in a single day.
The cumulative percentage of people testing positive rose by 0.6 percentage point, only the second increase since early May.
Stopping a pandemic
The pandemic, Swann said, could be stopped one of three ways.
One is that a “country gets complete control over the pandemic, with testing and tracing and such, like you’ve seen in Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, and other places,” said Swann, a professor and department head for the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Another way is through a vaccine. There are hopes that a vaccine can be developed by the end of this year or early next year.
The third is through so-called herd immunity, when 60 percent or more of the population already has been infected, providing them with some level of immunity against to the virus. But Swann estimates that less than 5 percent of Nevada’s population has had the virus, based on a rough formula that there are 100 to 200 cases for every death.
When half your friends have had the virus, “that’s how you know when you’re close” to herd immunity.
Many states so far have seen low rates of infection, with exceptions including New York and neighboring states. These states may have reached their peaks for this wave, with cases on the decline because more residents already have been infected and have some immunity.
In places where few people have been infected or have immunity, the virus can easily pass from person to person, Swann said. The closures of many businesses and restrictions on public life slowed but didn’t stop the spread of the virus.
Flattening the curve
People have forgotten that the aim of these restrictions was to flatten the disease curve, with no expectation of getting rid of the virus, said Karen Duus, an associate professor in microbiology and immunology at Touro University Nevada in Henderson.
“Flattening the curve” means avoiding spikes in illness so extreme that hospitals become overwhelmed by seriously ill patients, which is what happened in New York.
Whether the current spike in cases will turn into a larger trend depends in part on whether people are wearing masks and practicing social distancing, Duus said.
“It really depends on how careful everybody is being,” she said. “And I’m seeing an awful lot of people who aren’t being careful.”
She said she would be surprised to see business closures required again “unless our medical facilities get so overwhelmed that the powers-that-be decide people are going to be dying.”
Statewide, less than 70 percent of hospital and intensive-care beds were filled as of Tuesday.
Reasons for the spike
Dr. Fermin Leguen, acting chief health officer for the Southern Nevada Health District, said the current spike can’t be attributed solely to record amounts of testing.
He pointed to the increase in the past two weeks in the number of people being hospitalized for COVID-19, which isn’t related to how many people are being tested but to how many are seriously ill.
He attributed the spike in part to reopening, but didn’t connect it to protests of police brutality where there were crowds of people who weren’t practicing social distancing.
“At this point really, we don’t have that information available, in terms of establishing a relationship between the protests and the increase,” he said.
He said although it’s “virtually impossible to forecast the behavior of the virus in the future,” he believes that changes in people’s behavior can change the course of the pandemic.
He is advocating for businesses to require patrons to wear masks in public areas to decrease the spread of the virus.
From strictly a public health standpoint, requiring the public to wear masks is a “no brainer,” but there might not be the “political will” to do so, said Brian Labus, a member of the governor’s medical advisory team.
He said the state was closely monitoring the increasing numbers and would take appropriate action as needed, but could not say what action might be taken.
“If those numbers don’t drop back to what they should be, we’ve got a real problem,” said Labus, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UNLV’s School of Public Health. “Is it a bump in the road or is it a change in direction? I don’t think we can say yet.”
“It takes a little while to go from where we are now to that big peak,” Swann said. “And that assumes that nothing changes. If more people start wearing masks, then that peak shifts forward. It does depend on how many people take these additional (protective) measures.”
But based on the current trajectories, she’s expecting many states to see their numbers of new cases “going up, up, up.”

- Mary Hynes, Las Vegas Review-Jornal - https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/...i-of-new-coronavirus-cases-in-nevada-2054806/

THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS REPORT:

1. Blame Trump and the reopening of the economy. (Nevada is a Dem state - textbook move)

2. No connection to the protests and lack of social distancing and wearing masks. (Divert attention away from themselves [Dems] - textbook move)

3. NATURAL viruses are not a threat in 100+ degree temperatures. (45 degrees or less)

4. NATURAL viruses are not a threat in extremely sunny conditions. (lots of clouds and little sun = less vitamin D and weaker immunity)

Something smells here.

Logical thinking.

 

[savage1]

All I can say is seeing all of those folks wearing masks in the casino is TERRIFIC and makes me feel great,

and imo should be MANDATED by governors in EVERY STATE IN COUNTRY until we know by an

overwhelming consensus of the most respected epidemiologists in the country, after time has passed, that the Coronavirus

is indeed history.

I sure as Hell DO NOT get that impression now if one reads the news and checks the daily Virus data!

 

[SportsBookData]

If you can't see the COVID scam and agenda by now you are blind.

If you understand the human respiratory system then you will understand WHY MASKS ARE RISKIER THAN THE VIRUS ITSELF.

Your respiratory system’s primary function is to breathe in air, absorb oxygen into the bloodstream and breathe out carbon dioxide.

The mask blocks the oxygen intake which starves the blood and cells while preventing the release of the harmful carbon dioxide, forcing you to breath it back in - this is a DEADLY COMBINATION!

And as the temperatures get warmer the RISKS ARE GREATER because the body needs more oxygen to get rid of the carbon dioxide.

If the body can't get rid of it YOU DIE - it's that simple!

Your so-called experts know all of this.

They want you to submit to wearing the masks because they know that right now during summer it poses a much greater risk to you and your health than COVID, or any virus ever will.

And the only way they can get you to submit to wearing it is by keeping you in fear around COVID, and THIS is exactly why you see Fauci and others starting to push the fear porn again.

But they had to wait until after their fake ANTIFA protests and riots were over so they could fulfill their own agenda.

 

[savage1]

Just remember folks that before you take as gospel what sbd says in the post before this one, that you read post 1 in my QAnon Thread as well as the links

provided in post 68.

ps I will be reopening the QAnon Thread tomorrow for reasons to be stated later in that thread.

 

[SportsBookData]

How the respiratory system works is a Q-Anon conspiracy.

Like Biden, some people just aren't "all there".

 

[savage1]

Is saying a zillion times over and over again that Trump is going to win the Election "in the biggest landslide in history" an example

of someone who is "all there"???

Out for some sunshine on this beautiful day!

 

[BuzzKill]

 

[StevieRay]

Is saying a zillion times over and over again that Trump is going to win the Election "in the biggest landslide in history" an example

of someone who is "all there"???

Out for some sunshine on this beautiful day!

He is way more “there” than you turd muncher