The COVID-19 pandemic has been the focus of the Southern Nevada health district for the past year, working with local and state officials on guidelines and curbing the spread of the virus.

Long lines snaked around Cashman Center on Saturday, as Nevada continues to crank out vaccinations by the thousands.

As local health officials are reminding us, halfway isn’t far enough when it comes to coronavirus vaccination. Although the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen is becoming available, it takes two injections of versions currently available to Las Vegas Valley residents for those pharmaceuticals to become fully effective.

The virus came to Nevada slowly, and then all at once.

It is the million-dollar question right now: after someone gets the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, can they live their life normally again?

Don’t skip that second shot. As Clark County awaits its first shipment of the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen, more than 300,000 people are halfway through their regimens of previously approved two-shot vaccines — and health officials remind them to stay the course.

You might wonder which Covid vaccine is the "best."

March 5 marks one year since the first case of COVID-19 in Nevada. Twelve months later, coronavirus has infected nearly 300,000 Nevadans, and 5,000 have died.