The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines designed to target recent strains of the coronavirus.
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Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
The Elko County Board of Health is scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss and consider placing a moratorium on COVID-19 and flu vaccines in the county.
With a new school year approaching, the Clark County School District says it doesn’t have an employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate and its development “has not been necessary.”
Federal officials now say that everyone over 50 should get a second booster. But one critic calls this “booster mania.”
MGM Resorts International has joined a growing list of casino operators allowing vaccinated employees to forego masks.
The topless bar is limited to adults 21 and up, but other outreach locations this week will accept Nevada residents 12 and older to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
It would mark the first time that U.S.-controlled doses of vaccines authorized for use in the country will be shared overseas.
The new recommendations still call for masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but they are expected to help clear the way for reopening workplaces, schools and other venues.
The Clark County School District and Nevada colleges aren’t planning to drop policies requiring mask-wearing on campuses and offices.
Casinos across the valley are allowing fully vaccinated guests — and, for some, vaccinated employees — to opt out of wearing masks.
New federal guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most indoor and outdoor settings is now effective in Nevada. Yet businesses in the state may still require masks for customers and employees, if they so choose.
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The UMC Advanced Center for Health will offer vaccinations by appointment on weekdays.
Vaccine will be available at pharmacies, mass inoculation sites and some doctor’s offices following final review of new federal guidelines on the Pfizer shots.
MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment Inc. and Station Casinos are the latest major companies to have gaming floor capacity and social distancing restrictions waived by Nevada regulators. Silverton also got the green light.
Clark County Commission Chairwoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick and paid volunteers are calling constituents to see whether they need help getting immunized.
The health district’s chief health officer says about 50 percent of eligible Clark County residents 16 and older has received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Clark County has set a threshold of 60 percent before fully reopening.
COVID-19 vaccines finally are headed for more kids as U.S. regulators on Monday expanded use of Pfizer’s shot to those as young as 12, sparking a race to protect middle and high school students before they head back to class in the fall.
But state test positivity rate drops slightly, to 5.5 percent, its lowest level since it recently peaked at 5.9 percent on April 17.