Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
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With a new school year approaching, the Clark County School District says it doesn’t have an employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate and its development “has not been necessary.”
Federal officials now say that everyone over 50 should get a second booster. But one critic calls this “booster mania.”
A majority of the patients requiring hospitalization are 70 or older, and the number of people being admitted to the ICU for care or who require mechanical ventilation remain near all-time lows.
Starting Wednesday, the Southern Nevada Health District will begin offering the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to children from 6 months to 5 years of age.
Not all experts agree on who needs a second booster, but those with underlying medical conditions might benefit the most as antibodies begin to wane.
Last week, BA.2 represented about 35 percent of cases genetically analyzed in the U.S. according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As cases of COVID-19 plummet, overall doses administered also are at their lowest point since the first week of vaccinations in mid-December 2020.
On the final day of daily COVID-19 updates from state officials, Clark County added another 369 new cases and 20 deaths.
Clark County added 423 new cases and 14 new deaths Friday, according to health district data. As of Friday the county reported 489,011 cases and 7,552 deaths.
Clark County on Thursday reported 396 new coronavirus cases and 19 deaths as most major long-term metrics continued to decline.
The county showed a 7-day case rate of 55.50 and a 7-day test positivity rate of 7.93 percent on Tuesday, according to CDC data. That was enough to drop the county into the “substantial” transmission rate.
Clark County reported 306 new coronavirus cases and 19 deaths Wednesday, continuing trends that have gone on for weeks and moving the county farther away from the peak of the omicron surge.
The Southern Nevada Health District still has a variety of testing locations open throughout the valley.
Las Vegan Emma Burkey hopes to again walk, hold a baby, after rare reaction to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.