Nevada is one of seven states with “very high” levels of COVID wastewater activity. Experts said a tourist surge over the Fourth of July weekend was one factor.
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COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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.
During a Monday event, Gov. Steve Sisolak said the state’s Pandemic Emergency Technical Support Grant program provided over $100 million in funding to an estimated 9,400 small businesses and nonprofits.
Immunize Nevada and Jardi Jardín Premium Cannabis Dispensary are partnering to launch “Jabs For Joints,” a one day pop-up vaccination site at the dispensary’s storefront on Friday.
Southern Nevada health officials sounded the alarm in June over a cluster of “breakthrough” cases of the coronavirus delta variant among vaccinated employees of a Las Vegas hospital.
Positivity rate also jumps sharply to 9.5 as deaths remain above two-week moving average.
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.
FEMA is working with the state to provide on-the-ground assistance starting early next week in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases and stagnant vaccination rates.
Updated data posted by the state Department of Health and Human Services on the state’s coronavirus website pushed the state’s case total to 337,259.
Concentrations of the virus in two of seven Las Vegas Valley wastewater collection sites show levels approaching those last seen during the winter wave of infections, scientists have found.
The odds are “very reasonable” for winning one of the raffle’s prizes, a UNLV mathematician said on the eve of the first drawing. That said, don’t quit your day job beforehand.
Updated data posted by the state Department of Health and Human Services on the state’s coronavirus website pushed the state’s case total to 336,562.
A North Las Vegas kindergarten teacher and a Las Vegas high school sophomore were the big winners Thursday in the first drawing of the “Vax Nevada Days” raffle aimed at boosting vaccination rates.
President Joe Biden rolled out enhanced federal efforts to curtail the increased spread of the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus as vaccination rates stagnate in states including Nevada.
Nevada on Tuesday reported 1,346 new coronavirus cases and five deaths over the preceding four days as well as a sharp increase in the state’s test positivity rate.