A lengthy new COVID-19 Effect Report recently released by The Nevada Department of Health and Human Being Solutions Workplace of Analytics measures how the pandemic cost Nevadans nearly 4 million hours of work, boost customer costs by billions of dollars and coincided with a doubling in the rate of compound use-related deaths.

Most of the health-related information in the report was created to support Nevada's COVID-19 Mitigation and Management Task Force, however was later on modified to include a broader range of information in order to "identify the longer-term effects of decisions made in the height of the pandemic, and the effect of those choices on more extensive lifestyle indications."

According to Shannon Litz, the deputy director of programs at the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the pandemic increased partnership among governments and community partners. New systems were developed to resolve public and state management inquiries. Data likewise became more transparent.

Here are some of the highlights from the analysis:

3: Where COVID-19 ranks on the list of leading causes of death in Nevada. The disease was responsible for 11 percent of deaths in 2020, 16 percent of deaths in 2021 and 7 percent of deaths in 2022. In 2020, heart disease and cancer were the top 2 leading causes of death in the state.

94,692: How many years of life are estimated to have actually been lost to COVID-19 in Nevada as of December 2022.

425 percent: The boost of using telehealth services in March of 2020. Following the pandemic, high demand has actually been reported for telehealth treatments related to significant depressive disorder, stress and anxiety, hypertension, opioid abuse and alcohol addiction.

41 percent: The boost in Medicaid registration in between March 2020 and December 2022 after the federal government carried out a pause on Medicaid redeterminations in 2020. During the pandemic, peak Medicaid registration was at 937,000.

Since their earnings has increased above qualifying levels, redetermination is the procedure of determining whether beneficiaries are still qualified for the program; it often leads to people losing coverage.

$3.6 billion: The amount spent on health care claims for Nevadans on Medicaid in 2022 alone.

31 percent: The percentage of the more than 1 in 4 Nevadans who depend on Medicaid for their healthcare coverage that was used monthly in 2021.

33: The variety of states that supplied SNAP emergency situation allotments throughout the pandemic, Nevada consisted of. Starting in March 2020, SNAP individuals received a 2nd regular monthly payment, referred to as Supplemental Emergency Allotments.

Nevada saw substantially less families experiencing food insecurity due to the fact that of the more generous benefits, according to the Household Pulse Survey.

386,981: The average variety of recipients on SNAP between March 2020 and March 2023. They received a combined $1.3 billion to buy food.

3.9 million: The variety of months, between March 2020 and December 2022, that Nevadans lost in employment.

$15 billion: The quantity, in between March 2020 and December 2022, that Nevadans lost in incomes.

20 percent: The percentage of grownups who worked from another location in Nevada before the pandemic.

71 percent: The percentage of grownups who were working that worked remotely in Nevada throughout COVID-19.

6: The number of points that Nevada reported 4th grade composite ratings fell from 2019 through 2022.

K-12 students throughout the nation take this test and the composite scores are computed by averaging the results of the reading and math ratings for each grade.

8: The number of locations that Nevada's eighth grade National Assessment of Educational Progress ranking rose from (44th to 36th).

$16 billion: The increase in spending from Nevada customers on items in 2022 from 2019's levels. The national customer spending on products was the highest it had been since 2007.

$18 billion: The increase in spending from Nevada consumers on services in 2022 from 2019's levels.

7th worst: Nevada's ranking on home cost in the fourth quarter of 2022.

30.4 percent: The portion by which homelessness increased in the Northern Nevada Continuum of Care from 2020.

The Continuum of Care is a federal program that offers services to the community and intends to end homelessness.

6.9 percent: The percentage in which homelessness increased in the Southern Nevada Continuum of Care from 2020.

4.7 percent: The percentage in which homelessness increased in the Rural Nevada Continuum of Care from 2020.

36 percent: The portion by which hate criminal activities in Nevada increased from 2019 to 2022.

4.3: The variety of substance use-related deaths per 100,000 people in 2019.

9.0: The number of compound use-related deaths per 100,000 individuals in the 3rd quarter of 2022.

18.2: The variety of suicides in Nevada in 2020 per 100,000 people.

14th highest: Where Nevada's suicide rate stood in nationwide rankings in 2020. This is the lowest ranking in Nevada since 2015.

In 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022 Nevada was ranked 11th.

15.3: The greatest variety of psychological health-related deaths per 100,000 people in Nevada during the previous six years. This number happened in the fourth quarter of 2020 and after that once again in the first quarter of 2022.