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.
The Southern Nevada Health District will be setting up sites to give COVID-19 vaccinations to large numbers of people.
The state’s previous one-day record for COVID-19 fatalities was the 59 reported on Thursday.
Shots of COVID-19 vaccine are being given to eligible veterans beginning this week at VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System hospital.
The new rules take effect before midnight in the vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay Area and a large swath of the Central Valley.
He had attended a hearing at the Georgia Capitol on Thursday where he went without a mask for several hours.
The first doses of a vaccine to counter the scourge of COVID-19 could be shipped to Las Vegas and communities across the U.S. as soon as this week.
An additional 2,511 positive tests reported on Sunday brings the total number of coronavirus cases in the state since the outbreak began to 168,139.
The latest numbers push the state’s total to 364,276 cases since the pandemic began with 6,950 known deaths.
The Nevada Department of Corrections reported 100 new COVID-19 cases at a correctional center in Carson City.
The Southern Nevada Health District is recommending that gatherings of more than 1,000 people not be approved for the time being.
The state’s seven-day average of new cases also surpassed 1,000 for the first time since August, and hospitalizations across the state continued to climb.
Nevada’s workforce agency said recent initial jobless claims for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program are “highly suspect.”
State agencies are being asked to prepare for more steep cuts for the coming years as the economic distress caused by the pandemic continues to put a crunch on Nevada’s budget.
On Monday, a bombshell letter from local health officials leaked to the Review-Journal . They accused His Majesty of consistently ignoring them when he issues his emergency directives.
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