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Doctors and health care workers with the UNLV School of Medicine suit up in personal protective equipment before taking patients at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Las Vegas.
Published Friday, March 27, 2020 | 9:16 a.m.
Updated Friday, March 27, 2020 | 1:19 p.m.
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The number of coronavirus cases in Clark County has risen to 443, including 10 deaths, the Southern Nevada Health District reported today. That's up from 350 cases the previous day.
Statewide, 535 people have tested positive for the virus, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. A total of 6,696 people have been tested, the agency reported.
Of those testing positive in Clark County, 80 are in the hospital, with 16 of them in intensive care and 11 on ventilators, according to Health District statistics. A total of 29 of those hospitalized have at least one underlying medical condition, the district reported.
Total cases have been about evenly split between men and women, the district reported.
The age group most impacted is 25 to 49, with 183 cases. Only four cases have been children from birth to 17 years old, according to the data.
As testing becomes more widely available, the number of cases will grow, Dr. Michael Johnson, a director with the Health District, said today in a teleconference.
“Nobody is immune to COVID-19. It doesn’t target a specific ethnicity or age group," Johnson said. "People who are older, and those with chronic medical conditions, such as lung disease, heart disease, diabetes and weakened immune systems are of course more at risk. And sadly, we’ve seen that reflected in our community.”
“However, we’ve also seen that people without underlying medical conditions can become severely ill and die," he said.
Johnson said mitigation efforts, such as social distancing and staying home, which Nevadans have been directed to do since last week, have proven effective in slowing the spread of the virus.
