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 state is warning Nevadans about scammers trying to sell fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.
Nevada reported a high number of new coronavirus cases on Monday, but the figure was likely inflated after the state stopped reporting its COVID-19 metrics over the weekend.
The new policy means figures reported on Mondays and Tuesdays will be inflated, as the state reports all the new cases, deaths and other updates from Friday through Sunday.
The state Department of Health and Human Services also reported six additional deaths and a 0.2 percentage point rise in the test positivity rate to 5.7 percent.
A long line of people extended far outside the Cashman Center vaccine center, but a spokesman said the suspension of the Johnson & Johnson product was not responsible.
Updated numbers from the state Department of Health and Human Services pushed Nevada’s cumulative totals to 308,343 cases and 5,332 deaths.
The uptick of the two-week positivity rate to 4.3 percent follows a week of the rate stagnating at 4.2 percent.
There was a 15-minute wait to get a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Southern Nevada Health District offices early Monday as eligibility expanded to all Nevadans 16 and up.
Nevada public health officials on Monday reported 212 new coronavirus cases and one additional death over the preceding day.
A Summerlin private school is the first in the world using a device that is capable of detecting COVID-19 through noninvasive testing, according to school officials and the device’s manufacturer.
For the first time in over a year, 9-year-old Hailey Cuthbert looked up adoringly at her great-grandmother, Ellie Levi, on Wednesday in Summerlin.
Many of those who are not yet eligible to receive doses under state rules are using a “Vaccine Hunters” Facebook group to cut in line.
Las Vegas-based manufacturer PandMedic Solutions donated 10,000 N95 and surgical masks to nonprofit CORE and two Opportunity 180 schools at a Thursday event.
As Nevada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout expanded to new occupations, the Cashman Center on Tuesday experienced long lines and wait times of over an hour.
Some pre-kindergarten through third-grade students returned to school Monday for a first day of instruction like no other.