Vaccination events at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and at a strip club signal a new phase of the inoculation campaign in Southern Nevada.
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More than a million first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Clark County, the Southern Nevada Health District announced in a press release Tuesday.
There’s a silver lining in the dominance of troubling variants when disease numbers are declining, according to Nevada’s state lab director.
With the county’s two mass vaccination clinics scheduled to close next month, health officials are looking for ways to get more newly eligible adolescents inoculated.
New federal guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most indoor and outdoor settings is now effective in Nevada. Yet businesses in the state may still require masks for customers and employees, if they so choose.
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Vaccine will be available at pharmacies, mass inoculation sites and some doctor’s offices following final review of new federal guidelines on the Pfizer shots.
The Southern Nevada Health District has identified the first known case of the B.1.617.2 strain in Clark County, the agency said in a news release.
Clark County Commission Chairwoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick and paid volunteers are calling constituents to see whether they need help getting immunized.
The health district’s chief health officer says about 50 percent of eligible Clark County residents 16 and older has received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Clark County has set a threshold of 60 percent before fully reopening.