He harshly criticizes Southern Nevada vaccine practices that allowed young employees of local governmental agencies to get COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of older Nevadans.
Mary Hynes
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Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
Clark County’s two mass COVID-19 vaccination sites, as well as smaller sites, are operating well below capacity.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Those lights are all going to go dark and those people are all going to be out of work,” he recalls of his moment of truth on the anniversary of Nevada’s first coronavirus case.
Hospitality and casino workers could become eligible in the “next couple of weeks” in Southern Nevada, a state official says.
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility in Clark County will expand Tuesday to all groups within frontline community support and frontline supply chain and logistics categories.
The one-dose vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized for emergency use over the weekend, is the third to be authorized for emergency use in the U.S.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Records show the losses are often due to the challenges of administering the highly-sensitive COVID-19 vaccine within a rigid timeframe before it spoils.
Nevada’s public health lab has identified the strain in the Silver State, where it currently represents about a quarter of positive cases that are genetically sequenced.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
County health officials said Friday that first-dose appointments will not be available next week at the health district or its partner clinics.
Washoe County on Thursday announced it had detected the first confirmed Nevada case of a coronavirus variant that originated in South Africa.
Vaccination sites at Cashman Center and Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas began accepting some walk-ins 65 and up on Thursday to receive a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.