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.
While its direct impact on the homeless population is still unclear, the coronavirus pandemic has made life on the streets of Las Vegas harder in many ways.
The VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas is one of fewer than 20 VA sites around the nation chosen to work out best practices for reintroducing in-person health care services.
While testing for COVID-19 is becoming available to more Clark County residents, testing of the homeless remains haphazard even though they are at high risk.
Some recurring public Memorial Day events are scheduled for Monday across the valley, but they have been scaled back.
Nevada health investigators designated Horizon Health and Rehabilitation in Las Vegas as one of four “high risk” nursing homes in the state.
The Nellis pharmacy was placed off-limits for retirees on April 10, preventing many local retirees and widows from accessing the no-cost medication to which they are entitled.
Tributes to fallen U.S. armed service members in the Las Vegas Valley on Memorial Day weekend will be different this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
About half of the residents at 190-bed The Heights in Summerlin have been infected by the new coronavirus. The death toll is now the highest at any state-regulated institution.
To replace the closing sites, Three Square Food Bank has added two weekly drive-thru distributions, which will begin Saturday and Wednesday at Central Christian Church at 1001 New Beginnings Drive in Henderson.
The base remains under a public health emergency and is open only to uniformed members and their dependents, residents and essential personnel.
Barstow, California, Kingman, Arizona, and St. George, Utah, all under varying restrictions due to COVID-19, reveal commonalities and contrasts in life under the coronavirus.
Dispatches from inside some Southern Nevada long-term care facilities hardest hit by the disease reveal culture of secrecy amid the pandemic.
In the two-and-a-half weeks since the county and city of Las Vegas’ started operating the homeless ISO-Q (isolation/quarantine) complex at Cashman Center, 112 people have been treated.