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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.
The Johnson and Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine is once again being administered in Southern Nevada after the CDC and FDA lifted the brief pause on deploying the vaccine.
To promote vaccine safety, one Hall of Fame football player stopped by multiple vaccination sites here in Southern Nevada.
Almost 40% of people age 16 or older living in the state of Nevada have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot. But even with that progress, there are efforts to speed things up, so health officials are enlisting the help of star athletes to spread the word.