The Southern Nevada Health District strongly recommends that people wear masks in public indoor places and stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Clark County on Thursday reported 581 new coronavirus cases and five deaths over the preceding day, but statewide reporting and other metrics were not available.
The rollout comes after last week’s recommendation from the CDC that seniors and others at high risk for COVID-19 get a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The Clark County School District next week will consider creating a policy that would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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.
“We’ve got to be really careful protecting individual cases,” Clark County schools superintendent says of the decision to withhold the figures.
Documents show the health insurance trust that covers Clark County teachers was $43 million in debt as of February — the first indication of the scope of the deficit.
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.
The Southern Nevada Health District has identified the first known case of the B.1.617.2 strain in Clark County, the agency said in a news release.
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.
Forty-six percent of respondents to The Nevada Poll, a phone and online survey, said they disapproved of actions taken by both the trustees and the superintendent.
Some pre-kindergarten through third-grade students returned to school Monday for a first day of instruction like no other.
The first day of school is always fraught with emotion, but Monday’s return to the classroom is expected to bringing an added dimension to the usual anxieties, experts say.
At a briefing at Eisenberg Elementary School in northwest Las Vegas, school district officials detail cleaning procedures and sickroom protocols.
Under its reopening plan, the district is relying on 340 first aid safety assistants — whose primary role is to provide first aid to students — to staff school sickrooms.