Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
COVID 19 Vaccine
The Elko County Board of Health is scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss and consider placing a moratorium on COVID-19 and flu vaccines in the county.
With a new school year approaching, the Clark County School District says it doesn’t have an employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate and its development “has not been necessary.”
Federal officials now say that everyone over 50 should get a second booster. But one critic calls this “booster mania.”
A majority of the patients requiring hospitalization are 70 or older, and the number of people being admitted to the ICU for care or who require mechanical ventilation remain near all-time lows.
A Las Vegas man has won the $1 million grand prize of this summer’s “Vax Nevada Days” drawings.
The fourth “Vax Nevada Days” raffle took place at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno.
The third “Vax Nevada Days” raffle ceremony took place tonight at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Officials in Esmeralda County say the fewer than 1,000 residents are getting doses in other counties, but they can only guess how many have attained immunity.
Ron Griebell and his wife, Sandra Hahnenkratt, are now fully vaccinated against the virus that left them quarantined in a windowless room on a cruise ship off the California coast last March.
First-dose appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine are available at the Cashman Center today and Friday.
People 65 or older who live in the 89030, 89031 and 89032 ZIP codes are encouraged to register, the city said in a statement.
COVID-19 vaccine clinics scheduled for Wednesday in Nye and Lyon counties have been postponed due to delayed deliveries of vaccine doses.
The clinic will have appointments available for “seniors and others in priority vaccination groups” from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, according to the statement.
Hundreds of older Laughlin residents lined up on the second floor of the Aquarius casino early Wednesday for the town’s first COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
Vaccinations will be available for people over the age of 70 and anyone whose job currently qualifies them for vaccination.