As pandemic emergency provisions wind down, thousands of Nevadans could lose their no-cost insurance coverage.
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“We are in control mode now,” a Southern Nevada Health District official said.
The Southern Nevada Health District awaits guidance from the state on whether young, healthy casino workers and those in other occupations are eligible.
Nevada’s public health lab has identified the strain in the Silver State, where it currently represents about a quarter of positive cases that are genetically sequenced.
Preliminary numbers from the Clark County coroner’s office show suicides declined in March and April, despite all the pain inflicted on the community by the new coronavirus.
Two more people in Clark County have died of COVID-19, bringing the overall total in the county and in the state to six.
A bad flu season in Australia has some medical experts preparing for the worst in the U.S. and in Nevada, which has a lower than average vaccination rate.