Ann Lynch, a hospital vice president who co-founded a few local nonprofit organizations and served a tenure as the National PTA president, died on Dec. 23.
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The Southern Nevada Health District announced Monday that norovirus may be the cause of an outbreak in late January at a Las Vegas elementary school.
A lawsuit claims 87-year-old Marceil Scott was discharged from a Las Vegas hospital in freezing temperatures in the middle of the night. She died a month later.
In the federal lawsuit, the Las Vegas nurse, who was fired after being denied a a religious exemption to a COVID-19 vaccination mandate, claims discrimination and retaliation.
The BA.2 variant has triggered a significant uptick in cases in the U.K and elsewhere, and its growing prevalence in the U.S. has created concern among public health authorities.
Staffing at Clark County hospitals has been stretched thin during the COVID-19 pandemic. A health official said that as of Thursday, 300 employees were out sick at the three Las Vegas-area HCA hospitals.
Many U.S. authorities say the potency of COVID-19 vaccines hasn’t waned, but they make a case for booster shots in some individuals.
About 36 percent of graduates are staying in Nevada for their residencies. The medical school is hoping to build that pipeline to address the state’s physician shortage.
The state’s two-week moving positivity rate declined to 5.6 percent on Thursday, the first decline in the metric in more than a week, according to state data.
The Southern Nevada Health District is recommending that gatherings of more than 1,000 people not be approved for the time being.