Nevada may be on track to achieve “herd immunity” to COVID-19 despite the growing presence of more infectious variants in the state, a top public health official said Monday.

For the first time since June 19, Nevada on Saturday reported dropping below the 5 percent positivity rate the World Health Organization says governments should hit for 14 straight days before beginning to reopen.

Fewer people are getting coronavirus tests now that a winter wave of infections is in the rearview, but officials still want Nevadans to get tested to help identify and stop further transmission.

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?