Better data on breakthrough cases could give researchers more information to study new variants of COVID-19 or help policy makers understand who should be prioritized for booster shots first.Д«ut in May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking most breakthrough infections. Understanding breakthrough cases - what they do and donвЂ™t mean - is critical to keeping communities safe right now and developing public policy for the next stage of the pandemic, experts say. The data showed more than 500 casino workers and 400 food-service workers, on top of 575 healthcare workers, in Las Vegas have contracted breakthrough COVID-19 cases. Follow on Twitter.The Documenting COVID-19 projectвЂ™s recent investigation with the Las Vegas Review-Journal unearthed important public health data, collected internally by the Southern Nevada Health District but not posted publicly, on so-called breakthrough infections of COVID-19 in fully-vaccinated Americans. WhatвЂ™s more Vegas than that?Д¬ontact Eli Segall at or 70. Plus, at its essence, buying real estate can be a type of gambling: YouвЂ™re betting a property will go up in value and, at some point, you can cash in. It has a transient population and always seems to draw out-of-state investors, and there is still plenty of land left for construction. Housing is a cyclical industry, prone to ups and downs, but Las VegasвЂ™ market has been more volatile than most. Given the severity of the crash here, there was no shortage of supply and prices accelerated yet again, albeit this time out of the gutter.Д«y summer 2013, Las Vegas home prices had climbed by 29 percent from a year earlier, compared with a 10 percent jump nationally at the time, according to Case-Shiller.

The Las Vegas market surged again in 2013 as bargain-hunting investors bought cheap homes in bulk to turn into rentals. Nationally, the price drop was at its worst in early 2009, at almost 13 percent. Many people throughout the valley also lost their homes to foreclosure, enabling a widespread squatter problem.Д«y late 2008, Las Vegas house prices had dropped by nearly 33 percent from a year earlier. Job losses soared, property values plunged, construction largely ground to a halt, and the valley was littered with abandoned, partially built projects. When the bubble burst and the economy did a faceplant, few areas were hit as hard as Southern Nevada. Nationally, annual price growth reached 14.5 percent in September 2005, according to the Case-Shiller index. Overall, Las Vegas house prices in September 2004 had shot up by 53 percent from a year earlier. Builders developed waves of subdivisions in the valley, investors drew up plans for numerous condo towers, and house-flipping was an easy moneymaker. In August 2020, house prices locally were up 4.7 percent from the year before, while nationally they had climbed 5.8 percent, the index shows.Дuring the mid-2000s, Las Vegas was ground zero for AmericaвЂ™s real estate bubble as lenders issued mortgages to practically anyone. Southern Nevada house prices were up 23.8 percent year over year in August, compared with a 19.8 percent jump nationally, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index released this week. Lately, our frenzy has looked largely the same as other cities, marked by tight inventory, multiple offers and sellers firmly in control as people try to buy a place amid historically low interest rates. After the economy crashed a decade or so ago, home prices here also sank faster than the U.S overall. Las Vegas is not alone - home prices have shot higher across the country as well.Д«ut Southern Nevada home values skyrocketed faster in the past than they have now and at a much faster pace than the national average. It has accelerated yet again over the past year with rapid sales and record prices, thanks largely to cheap borrowing costs that have let buyers stretch their budgets.

Southern Nevada home prices have been on a stomach-churning ride over the past two decades: The market floors it, hits the brakes and repeats. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) our dependence on tourists coming here to eat, drink, gamble and party, Las VegasвЂ™ economy has long been prone to extreme ups and downs.Д«ut across the valley, in the land of stick-and-stucco with red-tile roofs, Las VegasвЂ™ housing market has shown it can be just as volatile.

A new housing development is underway at north of Far Hills Avenue west of 215 Beltway in Summerlin, on Friday, Oct.

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