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Two people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Clark County have died after contracting rare “breakthrough cases” of the disease, local health officials report.
According to a new study, a disproportionate number of Hispanic Americans have died from COVID-19 due to workplace exposure to the coronavirus compared with their non-Hispanic white counterparts.
In less than a week, your 12 to 15-year-olds may be able to get the COVID vaccine, as Pfizer gets one step closer to getting the green light from the FDA.
The Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 12-15 could be ready to go as soon as next week, but the news comes with mixed reactions.
Almost one-third of Nevadans behind on getting their second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine are more than six weeks overdue, state health officials report.
For trusted medical information at the local and regional levels, everyday physicians are becoming spokespeople for vaccination against COVID-19. And Marc Kahn, dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, doesn’t mince his words.
Nevada is ranked 38th, with about 28 percent of the state fully vaccinated. The number with at least one shot is about 39 percent, but there have been problems getting people to get their second shot.
Nevada is ranked 38th, with about 28 percent of the state fully vaccinated. The number with at least one shot is about 39 percent, but there have been problems getting people to get their second shot.
“I’ll probably wear a mask every flu season,” Danielle Sinay told her husband, noting that mask-wearing is customary in other parts of the world as is.
UNLV is ending first dose COVID-19 vaccines at its site next week.
More than 122,000 Nevadans are behind on getting their second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, state health officials reported Tuesday.
Shortly after Andrew Suggs 32, launched his barbershop booking app Live Chair, his father's health started to decline from congestive heart failure. It led Suggs to research heart disease. That's how he learned that African American people, like his father and himself, were more likely than Americans of any other large racial or ethnic group to die of heart disease.