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Below is thefull COVID-19 report for the past weekend, July 16-18
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) Nevadas COVID-19 test positivity rate hit 12% on Monday as cases and hospitalizations soared over the weekend, data shows.
The states test positivity rate climbed from 11.3% to 12%, with Clark County hitting 13.5%.
The number of COVID-19 patients in Nevada hospitals jumped by 75 to a total of 894, according to data released Monday. Hospitals reported 196 of those patients were in intensive care units, and 92 were on ventilators all levels Nevada hasnt seen since mid-February.
New state COVID-19 cases jumped by more than 2,000 since Friday, with 1,900 reported in Clark County. About 92% of the states cases came from Southern Nevada.
On Friday, the Southern Nevada Health District recommended thateveryone vaccinated or not should wear a maskin crowded indoor public settings.
Nevadas case count grew by 2,067 over the weekend, most from Clark County (1,907). The states total cases are now at 345,163. Clark County has a total of 270,421.Its important to note thatthe state no longer updates the dashboard on the weekendor holidays, which may be why Monday and Tuesday reports show higher case and death totals.
Nevadas test positivity rate is at 12%, up from 11.3% on Friday. It fell below 5.0%, the World Health Organizations goal, on May 17 and climbed above it on June 28. Clark Countys rate is even higher, at 13.5%, up from Fridays report of 12.7%.
Nevada reported three additional COVID-19-related deaths, all from Clark County in the past 24 hours. Nevadas most populous county now accounts for 4,566 of the states 5,761 deaths. The 14-day rolling average is three deaths per day.
As of Sunday, a total of 3,631,541 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Nevada, with an increase of 17,777 in the past day.
*NOTE: Daily lab data from DHHS and SNHD reports is updated every morning for theprevious day.
July 6 was the first time since March 3 that Clark County had been flagged for elevated disease transmission(A county is flagged for elevated disease transmission if it meets two or three of the above criteria). In todays report, Clark remains flagged, along with Churchill, Elko, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral and Nye counties.
Clark Countys case rate (570 per 100,000 over the past 30 days) and test positivity rate (13.5%) are flagged in data reported today. Testing (183 tests per day per 100,000) is within the states acceptable range.
Thestates health department reports2,611,811 dosesof the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Nevada,as of July 18.Of Nevadas total doses, 2,070,421 have been administered in the southern part of the state, according to the Health Districtsdaily dashboard update.
As of today, 46% of Nevadans currently eligible for the vaccine are fully vaccinated, and 55% of the eligible population has initiated vaccinations. Clark County reports that nearly 45% of its eligible residents is fully vaccinated, edging closer to its goal of 60%.
NOTE: The state is not updating hospitalization dataonweekendsor holidays.
According to the statesDepartment of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the number of hospitalized patients in Nevada wasUPover the weekend, increasing by 75 patients.
The current number of hospitalizations is894 confirmed/suspected cases.
Nevadas resurgence continues with COVID-19-related hospitalizations increasing in the southern region, according to themost recent report from the Nevada Hospital Association.
Full statement released Wednesday, July 14, from the Nevada Hospital Association:
The general population appears desensitized to the threat, and individuals are not following CDC guidelines related to mask-wearing for unvaccinated persons or maintaining social distancing in crowdedindoor locations. Vaccinations have plateaued, and while most patients are unvaccinated, hospitals are seeing some breakthrough cases requiring advanced medical treatments.
COVID-19 patients account for approximately 14% of the relative demand placed on hospitals statewide and 16% of the relative demand in the southern region (confirmed and suspected/ total census). Some facilities are reporting increased hospital and ICU occupancy rates (at or above 90%); however, most of these patients are all-cause hospitalizations. Hospitals are not reporting shortages of ventilators, supplies, vaccines, or other therapeutics, although ICU and ventilator use is increasing.
To give some perspective, the state set a record high for hospitalized patients on Dec. 13 with 2,025 cases.
The number of people who have recovered from the virus in Southern Nevada continues to increase. The latest county update estimates a total of 253,126 recovered cases; thats 94.3% of all reported cases in the county, according toSNHDs latest report.
The health district providesa daily map with the number of positive tests in each ZIPcodein Clark County.
Nevadareopened to 100% capacity on June 1and social distancing guidelines lifted, helping the state return to mostly pre-pandemic times, with some exceptions.
Fully-vaccinated Nevadans no longer have to wear masks. However, masks still must be worn when required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules and regulations, including local businesses and workplace guidance.
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Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 190.4 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 4.08 million. More than 3.66 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data.
A COVID-19 lockdown will be extended beyond Tuesday in the Australian state of Victoria, with new cases still being detected in the community.
Muslim pilgrims, who are vaccinated against COVID-19, have gathered for the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
Singapore has advised unvaccinated adults to stay at home as much as possible over the next few weeks, citing concerns over rising COVID-19 cases.
France has reported more than 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row.
Residents of Viet Nam's capital Hanoi have been urged to stay at home and authorities have ordered a halt to all non-essential services due to clusters of new COVID-19 infections.
Tokyo Olympic organizers have reported the first COVID-19 cases among competitors in the athletes' village.
Thailand has announced plans for heightened COVID-19 restrictions, including a tighter lockdown in Bangkok and high-risk provinces, an expansion of curfew areas and the suspensions of most domestic flights.
Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people in selected countries
Image: Our World in Data
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for caution as COVID-19 restrictions end in England today.
From midnight, laws in England requiring facemasks to be worn in shops and other indoor settings lapsed, as did capacity limits in bars and restaurants, and rules limiting the number of people who can socialise together.
The strategy comes with risks though - notably, a vaccine-resistant variable emerging - and so Johnson urged caution.
"If we dont do it now weve got to ask ourselves, when will we ever do it?" he said in a video message filmed on Sunday.
"This is the right moment but weve got to do it cautiously. Weve got to remember that this virus is sadly still out there."
The COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship is a coalition of 85 global leaders, hosted by the World Economic Forum. Its mission: Join hands in support of social entrepreneurs everywhere as vital first responders to the pandemic and as pioneers of a green, inclusive economic reality.
Its COVID Social Enterprise Action Agenda, outlines 25 concrete recommendations for key stakeholder groups, including funders and philanthropists, investors, government institutions, support organizations, and corporations. In January of 2021, its members launched its 2021 Roadmap through which its members will roll out an ambitious set of 21 action projects in 10 areas of work. Including corporate access and policy change in support of a social economy.
For more information see the Alliance website or its impact story here.
Nigeria has put six states on red alert after reporting a 'worrisome' rise in COVID-19 infections, a government official has said.
Authorities have urged people to curb gatherings and hold prayers outside mosques during this week's Muslim festival Eid-el-Kabir.
A red alert allows authorities in the states to restrict celebrations and gatherings to a minimum.
The country has recorded 169,329 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with more than 2,000 recorded deaths.
Written by
Joe Myers, Writer, Formative Content
The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
BOSTON The Baker-Polito Administration today announced it will invest $186 million of the Commonwealths direct federal aid from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) toward critical priorities including support for hospitals, health and human services, mental health, and workforce development. Utilizing these federal resources now will help further the Commonwealths economic recovery and provide relief for residents hardest-hit by COVID-19, such as lower-wage workers and communities of color.
This $186 million is part of a total of approximately $5.3 billion in direct aid awarded to the Commonwealth through ARPA. The funding announced today is part of $200 million provided to the Administration in recently signed legislation for addressing critical needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Baker has filed legislation to put an additional $2.915 billion of this funding to immediate use to address additional urgent and pressing needs including housing and homeownership, economic development and local downtowns, job training and workforce development, health care, and infrastructure.
Our administration is putting this $186 million to work now because many communities throughout Massachusetts especially low-income families and communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and cannot wait for assistance. More than 400,000 residents are due to lose enhanced unemployment benefits in the first week of September, making the workforce training funding particularly urgent, said Governor Charlie Baker. We look forward to working quickly with our colleagues in the Legislature in allocating additional funding and providing residents and families with relief from the housing, economic, workforce, health care, and other challenges which continue to face the Commonwealth as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investing this $186 million is an important step in helping those who have been hard-hit by the pandemic, and we must continue deploying federal resources to further the economic recovery,said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. These funds will help address crucial health care and workforce priorities, and we look forward to quickly getting them out the door and into our local communities.
Highlights of this $186 million investment plan include:
Health Care
Workforce
The discretionary funds awarded to the Commonwealth through ARPA are intended to support urgent COVID-19 response efforts, replace lost revenue, support immediate economic stabilization for households and businesses, and address unequal public health and economic challenges in Massachusetts cities and towns throughout the pandemic. ARPA is also providing a total of $3.4 billion in direct aid for local governments throughout Massachusetts.
Massachusetts expects to benefit from a total of approximately $113 billion in COVID-related federal aid provided through the six pieces of federal legislation enacted during the pandemic. The majority of this funding is outside of the Commonwealths discretion. For example, over $50 billion is going directly to individuals and businesses in the form of stimulus payments, Paycheck Protection Program loans, Unemployment Assistance, and other initiatives. Over $3 billion has been awarded to the MBTA, RTAs, airports, and transportation. Approximately $2.9 billion has been awarded in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER Grants) for local schools, over $1.5 billion is being provided for higher education relief, and nearly $700 million has been awarded for child care.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) The Virginia Beach Department of Public Health announced it is hosting another COVID-19 vaccination clinic at New Light Baptist Church this week.
The free clinic is on Wednesday, July 21 from 4:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the church located at 5549 Indian River Road.
All three approved vaccines, Johnson & Johnson (one dose), Moderna (first and second dose), and Pfizer (first and second dose), will be available.
Children under 18 will receive the Pfizer vaccine and must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
If you plan to attend, you can schedule your appointment time at this link. Although appointments are encouraged, walk-ins will be accepted.
A new COVID-19 dashboard on the Virginia Department of Health website shows, as of July 19, 2021, 99.4% of coronavirus cases since the start of this year have been among individuals not fully vaccinated. Click here to see the data.
For more information on COVID-19 vaccines, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccines for COVID-19 page at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines.
Its a rough start to the week for markets. Dow industrials tumbled more than 800 points, following European and Asian stocks lower and setting the tone for turbulence ahead.
Blame rising COVID-19 cases globally, and the spread of the more infectious delta variant of coronavirus.
What were seeing in markets is a July chop triggered by the delta variant, according to analyst Thomas Lee of Fundstrat Global Advisors. Our call of the day is from Lee, who said that delta variant concerns could lead to a 5% correction for the S&P 500 SPX, -1.59%, setting up certain types of stocks for a strong rally through the rest of 2021.
Daily U.S. COVID-19 cases are approaching the 30,000 mark, but there is a risk that infections could go parabolic with the spread of the delta variant, and rise to around 100,000, Lee said.
The delta variant could create panic, because markets and investors typically focus on case counts as opposed to hospitalizations, Lee said and as many as 82 million Americans remain unvaccinated or without COVID-19 antibodies. However, hospitalizations remain low.
This delta variant has a lot of bark and is unnerving for investors, Lee said, even if theres not a strong bite. It could add weight to a July chop that has history on its side. Since 1928, a strong first half of the year leads to a flat or negative July.
While the S&P 500 was up 0.7% in July as of the end of last week, this belies the violent sector rotations taking place within the broader market, Lee said.
The Fundstrat analyst said that he doesnt expect the chop caused by the delta variant to cause a 10% or larger decline in stocks, but a 5% drop for the S&P 500 is possible.
So while theres little reason to be hugely bearish because bond spreads indicate wider stability for stocks, and volatility measures are not signalling broader weakness this vicious risk-off correction creates opportunities.
Lee is bullish on epicenter stocks shares in companies battered by the pandemic and set to benefit from the reopening like travel, consumer discretionary, energy, and basic materials. As well, Fundstrat is overweight on Big Tech, with the likes of Facebook FB, -1.23%, Apple AAPL, -2.69%, Amazon AMZN, -0.67%, Netflix NFLX, +0.37% and Google owner Alphabet GOOGL, -1.88% considered strong picks.
The buzz
Billionaire investor Bill Ackmans blank-check, special-purpose acquisition company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings PSTH, -1.16% will not proceed with its proposed acquisition of a 10% stake in Universal Music Group, owned by French media giant Vivendi VIV, -1.54%. Instead, his Pershing Square Holdings firm will make the investment.
On the U.S. economic front, investors can expect the National Association of Home Builders housing market index for July, which measures the market conditions for the sale of new single-family homes.
OPEC+, the group of oil-producing countries including Russia and Saudi Arabia, agreed on Sunday to further relax oil production cuts as demand for crude continues to rise and price soar. Production will rise by 400,000 barrels a day each month beginning in August and will eventually undo all of the pandemic-era curbs. Benchmark Brent BRN00, +0.48% crude tumbled below $70 a barrel and was set for the largest one-day loss since March.
Zoom plans to buy Five9 FIVN, +5.92% in an all-stock deal valuing the provider of cloud contact center solutions at $14.7 billion. The acquisition is meant to help Zoom ZM, -2.15% which became a ubiquitous form of video communication through the pandemic expand further into the enterprise market.
The markets
U.S. stocks were experiencing a rough day DJIA, -2.09% SPX, -1.59% COMP, -1.06% as analysts note that investors focus centers on the risk to markets from rising COVID-19 cases globally.
Equities tumbled in Europe SXXP, -2.30% UKX, -2.34% PX1, -2.54% DAX, -2.62%, following weakness in Asian markets NIK, -0.58% HSI, -0.16% SHCOMP, -0.51%.
The chart
Retail sales spikes caused by the pandemic have led to shortages of all kinds. Our chart of the day, via Wolf Richter of the Wolf Street financial blog, shows the catastrophic condition of inventories at auto dealers which before the pandemic made up more than one-third of all retail inventories.
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This brief reviews initial 2022 premium rate filings for Marketplace-participating individual market insurers in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Although the ACA individual market represents a small share of the privately insured population, the rate filings for this market are detailed and publicly accessible, making them a useful source of information on how health insurers are thinking about their likely costs for the next year.
It finds most of these insurers expect health utilization patterns to return to pre-pandemic levels and therefore most are factoring in no additional costs or savings related to COVID-19 into their 2022 premiums. These insurers also tended to make similar assumptions about how COVID-19 would affect their group market costs.
The brief is available on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, an online information hub dedicated to monitoring and assessing the performance of the U.S. health system.
New Covid-19 cases are on the rise in a number of states across the U.S., worrying health officials and epidemiologists as many Americans remain unvaccinated and the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads.
The U.S. is averaging more than 23,000 new cases a day, double the seven-day average of around 11,300 cases three weeks ago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. On 17 of the past 18 days, the seven-day case average was higher than the 14-day average, also suggesting cases have been rising nationally.
The uptick follows a significant slowdown in Covid-19 metrics after a deadly winter surge, when newly reported cases peaked at around 240,000 cases a day in mid-January, and it comes as public-health officials push to reinvigorate the nations vaccination campaign and get shots to undecided or isolated Americans.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly all recent Covid-19 cases and deaths from the disease are among unvaccinated people. Americans 65 and older, who are most likely to die from Covid-19 infections, have high rates of vaccinations.
In Los Angeles County, the countrys most populous, new cases recently exceeded 1,000 for three consecutive days, the first time in months it has done so, according to data from the countys Department of Public Health.
LANSING, Mich. At the beginning of the year demand for COVID-19 vaccines greatly outweighed available supply, now here in Michigan more than 260,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are set to expire in the next four weeks.
According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Pfizer vaccines will begin expiring in September and Moderna shots the following month.
Its sad, you know as a public health person we know that the vaccine saves lives and the fact that we have so much vaccine available but the rate at which people are getting newly vaccinated or completing their vaccine schedule is so slow is really disappointing, said Debra Furr-Holden, associate dean for public health integration at Michigan State University.
Vaccines that expire at health local health departments are disposed of as they would be at any hospital or health center.
Theres a process in place and we have real procedures in place for how you deal with medical and biohazard waste which is what vaccines are considered, she said.
The Mid-Michigan District Health Department has 1,800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which are set to expire in the next month.
"Right now the state has instructed us to keep all the expired COVID vaccines to the side, we label them do not use and we also keep them at the recommended temperature requirements for the specific vaccine, said Elizabeth Braddock, environmental director at the Mid-Michigan District Health Department. We are waiting for further guidance from our state's immunization team on how to deal with them when the time comes, when it's closer to the expiration date.
In Ingham County, the health department has partnered with local clinics and medical providers to minimize waste.
"Lansing Urgent Care has been a really great partner in that regard and they can call in their patients or offer it to people who walk into the urgent care that has been significant in reducing the amount of waste we have, said Nike Shoyinka, Ingham County Health Departments medical director.
Livingston Countys health department says they are also working with local partners to ensure minimal waste by asking other departments if they are able to use the doses before they expire.
Furr-Holden says there arent any major local programs to relocate vaccines that are about to expire.
The problem with getting vaccines distributed before they expire is its bigger than a local problem.The redistribution of vaccines has now become a global problem, she said. The World Health Organization is working on a kind of good stewardship program where some of the leading affluent countries are contributing vaccines to the global landscape to support countries that are under-resourced and also being hit hard by COVID.
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For those of you still waiting to get the coronavirus vaccine, there is a way to do your part and earn some cash in the process.
The Florida Department of Health is giving away $10 grocery vouchers at multiple locations across Palm Beach County.
The Healthcare District of Palm Beach County is providing the vaccine for free.
For a list of hours and locations, visit https://www.hcdpbc.org/.
