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.
As the last day of operations for the drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Fiesta Henderson draws near, the testing site at Texas Station is scheduled to operate until February 20.
The decision was bolstered by real-world evidence from the more than 200 million doses administered in the U.S. since the FDA cleared the shot in December 2020.
An ER travel nurse from Chicago has shared her time working in a Las Vegas hospital amid the COVID-19 variant, omicron, through the popular social media app TikTok.
The tests first became available to order through the federal government last week.
The couple were married for a year in the 1970s before going their separate ways. But on Tuesday, they remarried at MountainView Hospital.
Clark County’s major COVID-19 metrics have dropped consistently for nearly a week, providing more evidence that the county has already hit the peak of the current surge.
Beginning Saturday, a new drive-thru COVID-19 testing site will be available in Summerlin.
University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval is defending his decision to begin the spring semester with mostly in-person classes in the face of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week.
Updated data for Clark County on Wednesday provided a glimmer of hope that the local wave may have crested, but public health officials cautioned that it’s too soon to tell.
The Clark County School District reopened its campuses Wednesday, but officials couldn’t say whether the extreme staffing shortages of last week had improved during the break.
The number of people with COVID-19 in Clark County hospitals has exceeded the highs seen during last winter’s surge, and key metrics suggest the disease has not yet peaked.
“The faster omicron spreads, the more opportunities there are for mutation, potentially leading to more variants,” Leonardo Martinez, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Boston University, said.
Continuing with a dangerous pattern, Nevada reported more than 6,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day Friday morning.
A new federal website to request free test kits launches Wednesday, with the first shipments going out to Americans by the end of the month.
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