COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Already at pandemic lows, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations dipped this week.
Given that the population of Nevada is relatively young, the state “should have done better,” said one health expert.
Lower-income and minority communities are once again experiencing some of Southern Nevada’s fastest spread of COVID-19, data shows.
Clark County’s two mass COVID-19 vaccination sites, as well as smaller sites, are operating well below capacity.
Controversy has swirled around the question all year. Lacking a national coronavirus death definition, state officials created their own.
Federal data released June 1 showed 126 COVID-19 deaths in the state’s nursing homes. As of Tuesday morning, state officials had reported only 92.
The data represent an early snapshot — still missing is race/ethnicity data for 42 percent of the cases in Clark County, and other state cases outside of the county.