COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Already at pandemic lows, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations dipped this week.
Given that the population of Nevada is relatively young, the state “should have done better,” said one health expert.
Barbara Tinch, who contracted COVID-19 last year at a Las Vegas nursing home, conquered the disease, but her loved ones said she later died from its long-term effects.
About 200 UNLV students are part of the contact tracing team, which assists the Southern Nevada Health District.
The board is expected to decide Thursday whether to allow small groups of students to return to the classroom after 10 months of distance learning.
The Southern Nevada Health District is providing an update on COVID-19 vaccinations.
As hospitals filled with COVID-19 patients this weekend, a St. Rose Domincan hospital issued a disaster declaration after reaching 137 percent capacity in its ICU.
Clark County School District students received more failing grades during the fall semester of distance learning than in previous school years, according to district data.
The School Board on Thursday will consider opening schools to small groups of kindergartners through third graders for “voluntary academic and socio-emotional intervention.”
“Our primary goal is to ensure we don’t let any doses go to waste. We want to maximize every dose that comes into the state — and avoid expired or unused doses,” he said.
Some Clark County School District parents wonder if it’s worth transitioning to in-person classes late in the school year. Others want students in class as soon as possible.
Updated numbers from the state Department of Health and Human Services brought statewide totals to 248,568 cases and 3,467 deaths since the pandemic began.
Two UNLV engineering students won the university’s senior design competition last month with a timely project — a microwave for COVID-19 disinfection.
Nevada reached a sobering milestone Saturday when officials reported 56 additional coronavirus deaths, raising the total for the week to 299, the highest number recorded in one week since the pandemic’s start.
Mortuary workers will be among the last in Tier 2 to receive the COVID-19 vaccine — after essential retail workers, emergency road personnel and others.
Nearly 1,000 Las Vegas police employees have tested positive for COVID and two have died, according to newly released statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center have opened a center to provide monoclonal antibody treatments to patients with early COVID-19.
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