Launching “Health Care Week in Nevada,” he delivers flowers to a Las Vegas nurse practitioner and hears from members of a group of nurses from the Philippines.
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Clark County reported 326 new COVID-19 deaths and no new deaths during the previous day, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Friday.
Clark County’s COVID-19 metrics continued to paint a mixed picture of the direction of the outbreak in data posted Monday.
Hospitalizations, test positivity rate and deaths all rose slightly from Friday through Sunday, while new cases declined by an average of one per day, new data show.
Clark County on Wednesday added 359 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths as the test positivity rate jumped for a second straight day.
Over the cries of protesters, public health officials urge parents to get their kids inoculated as community clinics begin administering pediatric doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign.
A day after the county dipped into the “substantial” risk category under the CDC’s classification system, its rate of new cases per 100,000 rebounded into “high” risk territory.