The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a series immunization clinics for incoming kindergartners throughseventh-graders before school starts next month.
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As the highly contagious delta strain takes hold in the Las Vegas Valley, the disease is spreading fastest in affluent suburbs in the west and south, data shows.
Desert Springs Hospital worker Filbert John S. Aquino was remembered for trying protecting everyone: “He’d rather take the bullet.”
The Clark County School District is announcing new mask guidelines effective June 1, the first day of summer school throughout the district.
The new recommendations still call for masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but they are expected to help clear the way for reopening workplaces, schools and other venues.
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.
The private university in Henderson announced the requirement Tuesday in a campuswide email as it plans to resume full on-campus operations this summer.
Hundreds of students at the Clark County School District have been quarantined or isolated as a result of COVID-19 exposures or positives since in-person learning resumed.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago, about $1.6 million in classroom project requests by Clark County teachers have been fulfilled via DonorsChoose.
A new summer school option with five full days of free instruction each week will be offered to all Clark County School District students this June.
Between 4,500 and 5,000 appointments were booked for Tuesday at a mass vaccination site in downtown Las Vegas, less than its 7,000 capacity.
Education advocates have been calling for Nevada to reduce class sizes for decades, but it took an outbreak of a deadly disease to accomplish what laws and policies couldn’t.
Parents reveal that safety, learning quality, scheduling and their kids’ preferences are considerations in deciding whether distance or hybrid learning is the best option.
Local governments are calling back employees to full-time, in-person work, offering one sign that normalcy is slowly returning to the public sector.
Two local Veterans Administration clinics will give veterans the choice between the one-shot Johnson & Johnson or the Moderna two-dose option.
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