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.”
“Our primary goal is to ensure we don’t let any doses go to waste. We want to maximize every dose that comes into the state — and avoid expired or unused doses,” he said.
Mortuary workers will be among the last in Tier 2 to receive the COVID-19 vaccine — after essential retail workers, emergency road personnel and others.
President-elect Joe Biden will release most available COVID-19 vaccine doses to speed delivery to more people, a reversal of the Trump administration policy, his office said Friday.
Inoculations of front-line health care workers at the region’s universities and colleges would begin a week after schools in some areas began giving shots to similar workers.
The Southern Nevada Health District will be setting up sites to give COVID-19 vaccinations to large numbers of people.
With frustration rising over the slow rollout of the vaccine, state leaders and other politicians around the U.S. are turning up the pressure, improvising and seeking to bend the rules to get shots in arms more quickly.
Shots of COVID-19 vaccine are being given to eligible veterans beginning this week at VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System hospital.
Those 75 and older have been moved up in priority, but many remain confused about when they will be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine and how doses will be administered.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Immunization Program Manager Shannon Bennett provided an update to Nevada’s tier system for vaccine distribution at a Wednesday news briefing.
Under the nearly $2 billion deal announced Wednesday, at least 70 million additional doses will be delivered by June 30, and the remaining 30 million by July 31.
The health district announced it received its first shipment of the Moderna vaccine, the second drug to win emergency authorization from the federal government.
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.
The developments occurred as the nation seeks to ramp up a vaccination program that only began in the last week.
The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup said Sunday that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, according to a statement from Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office.
As Nevadans line up for a shot to fend off the coronavirus, we answer 11 frequently asked questions about the vaccine and invite you to submit your own queries.