The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV commemorated its partnership with Optum Care by renaming its graduate medical education (GME) classroom space The Optum GME Classroom.

The author John Steinbeck once smartly penned, “A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.” It is a clever phrase and it is spot on. In fact, science backs it up.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of new coronavirus infections in the United States are from the super-contagious BA.2 subvariant. Do you mean that the restrictions and isolations are back? Adriana Arévalo explains to us.

Health experts including the Southern Nevada Health District continue to monitor the spread of the new COVID-19 sub-variant, although they say the symptoms are considered relatively mild.

It's unwelcome news to a world already exhausted from Covid: a new subvariant is starting to get the attention of experts.

Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. At least six million lives have been lost during these 24 months and progress has been made in public health areas. But what's next now? Adriana Arevalo has the report.

While the current statistics may not meet the technical definition of an endemic, the recent and dramatic drop in COVID-19 cases, test positivity rates, and hospitalizations indicate Southern Nevada and other parts of the U.S. have almost arrived.

Sami Mesgun trails residents and fellows at University Medical Center for his two-week rotations as a third-year medical student in UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.