Las Vegas’ only major COVID-19 testing site experienced what officials called record-breaking demand on Sunday night, as lines caused traffic delays and hourslong waits.
Local Las Vegas
Las Vegas breaking news from Nevada's most reliable source. Read about the latest updates happening in Las Vegas at reviewjournal.com.
The site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave., just east of Paradise Road, across from UNLV’s Thomas Mack Center, will be closed from Sunday through Christmas.
Hundreds of people went to a northeast Las Vegas high school on Saturday morning to get a $100 gift card with their COVID-19 vaccine.
“She tried so hard to have that baby, and she never even knew it was born. Never got to hold her,” Vena Foster said about her sister, Kimmie Pavone, who was 35.
The 46 new coronavirus deaths reported Tuesday by the state Department of Health and Human Services was the highest since the state logged 55 deaths on Feb. 11.
This is a updating list of entertainment venues, events and conventions requiring proof of vaccination or negative COVID test for admission in the Las Vegas area:
“I was that skeptical dude that I thought COVID was a joke,” Sgt. Tom “T.J.” Jenkins says in a video posted online. “… I’m here to tell you it almost took me off this planet.”
A health official said California residents, particularly the unvaccinated, should rethink traveling to Nevada or other states where COVID-19 cases are high.
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.
The woman, who has “not recovered” according to federal health officials, is one of six under investigation nationwide in connection with Johnson Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
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.
Many of those who are not yet eligible to receive doses under state rules are using a “Vaccine Hunters” Facebook group to cut in line.
Walmart and the Immigrant Home Foundation are partnering in the effort to get COVID-19 vaccine to some of the most vulnerable residents in the Las Vegas Valley.
Vaccination sites at Cashman Center and Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas began accepting some walk-ins 65 and up on Thursday to receive a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
![Fontainebleau signs ‘once in a generation talent’ to residency deal](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19296876_web1_EDC-NIGHT-1_051724_002_548767.jpg?h=80)
![Las Vegas ranks among most expensive places in the US to visit: study](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19297624_web1_VEGAS-VISITORS-MAR26-23_032323kc_005.jpg?h=80)
![Las Vegas magician’s rates skyrocket after Magic Castle dustup](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19294820_web1_KATS-MURRAY-SAWCHUCK-MAR28-24-MC-014_70e395.jpg?h=80)
![Real Water to pay $3B in lawsuit, jury rules, after liver failure outbreak](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19297083_web1_realwaterlogo_b6a930.jpg?h=80)
![‘Mysterious monolith’ found on trail overlooking Las Vegas](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19297273_web1_monolithtrail_01c7fd.jpg?h=80)