Nearly 1,000 Las Vegas police employees have tested positive for COVID and two have died, according to newly released statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center have opened a center to provide monoclonal antibody treatments to patients with early COVID-19.
Investigators have collected information from infected Nevadans using an extensive 65-question survey. Many of those data points are now being abandoned.
Nevada on Tuesday recorded 40 coronavirus deaths —the second-highest one-day toll since the start of the pandemic, according to state data.
Nevada reported an additional 480 cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, along with 13 new deaths, according to state data.
The Southern Nevada Health District will begin publicly reporting data on a mysterious syndrome related to COVID-19 that has stricken at least eight children in Clark County.
State data posted Tuesday showed 137 new cases of COVID-19 — the lowest one-day gain in nearly three months — and no new deaths over the preceding day.
The first coronavirus antibody study in the state by public health officials shows that about 2.3 percent of adult residents in Washoe County have been infected.
State and county health officials are releasing a large amount of COVID-19 data every day. Here are tips to make sense of confusing numbers.
Both the Southern Nevada Health District and the state Department of Health and Human Services reported new case totals that were well below averages of the past week.
The daughter of Angelica Rodriguez, a 62-year-old great-grandmother and medical worker, is raising money to offset the cost of Rodriguez’s lengthy hospitalization due to COVID-19.
Vitalant, a nonprofit community blood provider, will collect plasma from those who have recovered to help people critically ill with the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
An appointment-only, drive-thru COVID-19 testing program at The Orleans is expanding to seven days a week, Clark County and University Medical Center announced Friday.
Testing of front-line health care workers, first responders and the general public will begin in Northern Nevada. Southern Nevada is expected to begin testing in June.
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