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.
Members of the U.S. military would be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Sept. 15, under a plan announced by the Pentagon Monday and endorsed by President Joe Biden.
Both figures are the highest in a single report since the state stopped tallying numbers over the weekend in mid-April.
Nevada on Friday reported 813 new coronavirus cases and 13 additional deaths over the preceding day, capping a week in which major disease metrics in the state continued to rise and reached levels not seen since February.
The changes come amid a national vaccination campaign in which children as young as 12 are eligible to get shots, as well as a general decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a series immunization clinics for incoming kindergartners throughseventh-graders before school starts next month.
Nevada’s two-week positivity rate, which essentially tracks the percentage of people tested for COVID-19 who are found to be infected, dropped slightly to 3.4 percent.
Formerly an emergency response to school closures, distance learning may become a permanent fixture on Nevada’s learning landscape.
“My husband had a stroke in November. He’s paralyzed and immobile, and there is no way for me to get him to a vaccination site.”
At least one of the three confirmed cases of the Brazilian variant — thought to spread more easily — occurred in Clark County, the state’s lab director said.
Nearly half of the new cases reported to the state by Clark County for Fridays reported were from March 26 or before, state officials said at a news briefing.
The mobile clinic in the parking lot of the Bob Ruud Community Center will also operate on Friday and Saturday.
The Department of Corrections declined to identify the 55 prisoners who records show died after testing positive for the virus. The Review-Journal independently identified 39.
He harshly criticizes Southern Nevada vaccine practices that allowed young employees of local governmental agencies to get COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of older Nevadans.
Clark County’s two mass COVID-19 vaccination sites, as well as smaller sites, are operating well below capacity.
Nevada on Tuesday reported 429 new coronavirus cases and 14 additional deaths over the preceding day, according to state data.
