The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
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Clark County on Tuesday reported 326 new coronavirus cases and 21 deaths, as statewide numbers were delayed without an explanation.
Key metrics used to measure the impact of the virus continue to show improvement, even after Gov. Steve Sisolak dropped the state’s mask mandate about a month ago.
Clark County on Wednesday reported 201 new coronavirus cases and 32 deaths, as most numbers continued to decline but death numbers stayed relatively flat.
Clark County on Monday reported 661 new coronavirus cases and 27 deaths over the preceding three days, representing another period of significant progress against the disease.
Despite Nevada’s mask requirement being lifted, some CCSD students said they would continue wearing masks at school because of crowded conditions.
Reaction has been swift since Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Nevada’s mask mandate was lifted.
Students, teachers and other school employees will no longer need to wear masks following an announcement Thursday from Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2 was spotted in Southern Nevada.
“There were just days where you felt like you were a chicken running with your head cut off,” traveling nurse Lauren Meadows said about her contract in Las Vegas.
An ER travel nurse from Chicago has shared her time working in a Las Vegas hospital amid the COVID-19 variant, omicron, through the popular social media app TikTok.
As the FDA halts the use of Regeneron and Eli Lilly treatments for COVID-19, the supply remains scarce of a newer drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology.
Julia Kidd, a nurse at UMC, sought an exemption from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate based on her pagan beliefs. Her request was denied and she was suspended.
Beginning Saturday, a new drive-thru COVID-19 testing site will be available in Summerlin.
University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval is defending his decision to begin the spring semester with mostly in-person classes in the face of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
The Clark County School District reopened its campuses Wednesday, but officials couldn’t say whether the extreme staffing shortages of last week had improved during the break.
Clark County School District campuses reopen Wednesday with more than 1,000 employees cleared to return to work following a “pause” caused by a COVID-19-related staffing shortage.
Nurses at MountainView Hospital said Thursday that on any given day, more than a third of their staff is out sick with COVID-19.
Monica Cortez, an assistant superintendent, said she’s confident classes will be back in session on Wednesday. She called the five-day pause “an adjustment to our calendar.”
Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara is a member of Chiefs for Change, which developed the tool to help school districts respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The emergency blood supply is several days short of the multiday reserve needed in Southern Nevada, mirroring a national shortage, officials said.