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With less than a month to go before Nevada fully reopens the state, Washoe County is managing to keep its latest increase in COVID cases under control so far but a recent two-day spike in hospitalizations also serves as a reminder of the challenges the area faces as it tries to get back to normal.
Washoe County reported a sharp increase in active hospitalizations, which rose from 28 to 45 within a two-day period through May 4. The number would eventually dip to 38 by Tuesday. But it’s still higher than the 25 to 28 active hospitalizations that Washoe saw through most of April.
COVID-19: 60 variants in Washoe County despite downward trend
May 6, 2021
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The Washoe County Health District is reporting 60 COVID-19 variants in the region, including four cases of the B.1.617 variant first identified in India.
Nonetheless, District Health Officer Kevin Dick said on Thursday that COVID-19 trends in Washoe County continue to be encouraging. The seven-day moving average of daily new cases has fallen to 39. That’s down from a high of nearly 500 in late November following Thanksgiving.
No COVID baby boom in Nevada births down 7% | Reno Memo Reno-Gazette-Journal 4/28/2021
The COVID-19 baby boom didn t happen. Almost from the beginning of the pandemic, experts wondered if Americans would get bored with Netflix and breadmaking long enough to get pregnant, but an AP analysis of the early data says no, we actually stuck with Netflix and bread. Births for all of 2020 were down 4.3% from 2019, the data indicates. More tellingly, births in December 2020 and in January and February 2021 nine months or more after the spring 2020 lockdowns were down 6.5%, 9.3% and 10% respectively, compared with the same months a year earlier, writes the AP s Mike Stobbe.
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By SCOTT SONNER and KEN RITTERApril 14, 2021 GMT
LAS VEGAS (AP) Nevada stopped using Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines on Tuesday while federal authorities investigate reports of some people in other states experiencing serious reactions, including blood clots.
However, state and local health officials said the “pause” should not affect ongoing vaccination efforts, because only about 4% of the nearly 1.55 million COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Nevada to date have been Johnson & Johnson. Most have been Moderna and Pfizer.
“Our message today is that our campaign is based on multiple vaccines,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, chief medical officer at the Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada Health District. “Pfizer and Moderna, those vaccines have proved to be effective and also to be safe.”