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Early in the COVID-19 vaccination drive, socioeconomic barriers — access to health care providers, online-only scheduling, and skepticism — hampered the efforts of Las Vegas health officials to get more minorities vaccinated.

Early in the COVID-19 vaccination drive, socioeconomic barriers — access to health care providers, online-only scheduling, and skepticism — hampered the efforts of Las Vegas health officials to get more minorities vaccinated.

‘The Pandemic Stops with Me’ webinar covered the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine, why minority communities are hesitant to get vaccinated, and how the community can do its part to stop the spread of the virus.

‘The Pandemic Stops with Me’ webinar covered the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine, why minority communities are hesitant to get vaccinated, and how the community can do its part to stop the spread of the virus.

‘The Pandemic Stops with Me’ webinar covered the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine, why minority communities are hesitant to get vaccinated, and how the community can do its part to stop the spread of the virus.

‘The Pandemic Stops with Me’ webinar covered the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine, why minority communities are hesitant to get vaccinated, and how the community can do its part to stop the spread of the virus.
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Health care experts are skeptical that the FDA's full approval of a vaccine would change the dynamic among the vaccine hesitant. They said they hoped they were wrong.

A major step forward. The Food and Drug Administration giving full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and older.

Nate Young is not a kid of many words. Lacing up his bright pink soccer cleats before practice on a warm summer evening in Las Vegas, the 11-year-old described his bout with COVID-19 in June as “not easy.”

Nate Young is not a kid of many words. Lacing up his bright pink soccer cleats before practice on a warm summer evening in Las Vegas, the 11-year-old described his bout with COVID-19 in June as “not easy.”

Younger Nevadans are the face of the current COVID-19 surge in hospitalizations and deaths.