Gov. Steve Sisolak’s medical advisory team isn’t discussing lifting the mandate; Las Vegas mayor says it’s time and that “the public is not stupid.”
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Hospitalizations are rising at the same time large numbers of health care workers are getting ill and missing work, the Nevada Hospital Association said Wednesday.
New cases were well above the 14-day moving average, which increased by four to 328. Deaths were more than three times the moving average, which held steady at four fatalities per day.
Deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus hold steady in latest report, while hospitalizations tick down by one.
Updated data from the Department of Health and Human Services pushed the state’s totals to 362,275 cases and 5,979 deaths.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Thursday continued to encourage — and times pleaded with — Nevadans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, announcing steps being taken to avoid shutdowns and mandates.
The private university in Henderson announced the requirement Tuesday in a campuswide email as it plans to resume full on-campus operations this summer.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 373 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths, both well above the two-week moving averages of 248 and three, respectively, state data show.
The uptick of the two-week positivity rate to 4.3 percent follows a week of the rate stagnating at 4.2 percent.
There was a 15-minute wait to get a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Southern Nevada Health District offices early Monday as eligibility expanded to all Nevadans 16 and up.
While getting a COVID-19 vaccination has become almost routine over the past several weeks, that wasn’t the case for vaccine clinical trial participants.
The majority of Nevadans believe companies should be allowed to require COVID-19 vaccines among certain employees, a Review-Journal poll shows.
A strike team led by the city of Las Vegas recently administered first doses at two housing complexes, representing its most direct effort to date to immunize the vulnerable.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Friday received its first allotment of the new single-dose coronavirus vaccine.
Exactly a year after the first coronavirus case was recorded in Nevada, the state has reported 295,460 cases and 5,020 deaths.
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