To target the socioeconomically disadvantaged community, public health officials used a senior center membership roster to fill appointments at the “pop-up” immunization site.
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New highly-contagious coronavirus variants have intensified concerns about spread across the U.S. One strain was reported in Nevada this week.
The site, located in Exhibit Hall B of Cashman Center, 850 N. Las Vegas Blvd., is operating 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday this week.
The Food and Drug Administration in October approved remdesivir for emergency use on hospitalized patients. The trial is aimed at determining its efficacy.
The appointment-only site will offer COVID-19 vaccine to those who received their first shot at Western High School, Cashman Center or the Southern Nevada Health District’s main office.
Starting this week, the Southern Nevada Health District will begin contacting people who are eligible to receive their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Anxious Nevada residents eager for the potentially life-saving vaccine are frustrated after attempts to make appointments amid inconsistent communication from coordinating agencies.
About one-third of Las Vegas Fire Rescue Department’s firefighters, engineers and paramedics, had received the COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday.
Some of those receiving the vaccine at one Las Vegas site Tuesday said they didn’t make an appointment and weren’t asked for ID, despite a policy requiring both.