After a weekly total of less than 10 new COVID-19 cases last week, Lyon County Public health reported fewer than five new cases to begin this week.
Monday afternoon, Public Health reported two new cases developed over the weekend. This pushed the county’s overall total to 10,129 since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020.
The number of deaths remained at 114 with one case still pending final cause information from the state.
Lyon County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Director Jennifer Millbern says it may seem counterintuitive, but this current time of low COVID traffic is good for getting vaccinated — using breakthrough caseload data as an example.
Millbern says the benefits of vaccination also translate to hospitalized patients due to COVID. Millbern says 83 percent of Lyon County’s hospitalized patients have been unvaccinated, a percentage that gradually came down since Thanksgiving, but only 2 percent of hospitalized patients were fully vaccinated and boosted. For deaths, 81 percent of residents who died were unvaccinated. None were fully vaccinated and boosted.
Lyon County is around 61 percent of eligible residents ages 5-plus and 57 percent of all county residents fully vaccinated. Two-thirds of eligible residents and 63 percent of all county residents have had at least one dose.
