Nevada is one of seven states with “very high” levels of COVID wastewater activity. Experts said a tourist surge over the Fourth of July weekend was one factor.
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COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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.
Some Sun City Summerlin residents are fed up with all the to-do surrounding masks, and they’re ready to wrangle.
Desert Springs Hospital worker Filbert John S. Aquino was remembered for trying protecting everyone: “He’d rather take the bullet.”
Vaccination events at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and at a strip club signal a new phase of the inoculation campaign in Southern Nevada.
There’s a silver lining in the dominance of troubling variants when disease numbers are declining, according to Nevada’s state lab director.
With the county’s two mass vaccination clinics scheduled to close next month, health officials are looking for ways to get more newly eligible adolescents inoculated.
Emma Burkey, 18, is now speaking in full sentences and standing with assistance as part of a recovery that her mother describes as miraculous, her family says.
New federal guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most indoor and outdoor settings is now effective in Nevada. Yet businesses in the state may still require masks for customers and employees, if they so choose.
Is the vaccine safe? Is it effective? Is it required for school? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
Vaccine will be available at pharmacies, mass inoculation sites and some doctor’s offices following final review of new federal guidelines on the Pfizer shots.
The health district’s chief health officer says about 50 percent of eligible Clark County residents 16 and older has received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Clark County has set a threshold of 60 percent before fully reopening.
Clark County and Southern Nevada Health District officials debuted Tuesday the valley’s first large-scale, drive-thru vaccination site.
A Southern Nevada research center is looking for kids ages 12 to 17 to join a clinical trial testing the effects of a new COVID-19 vaccine on this age group.