In The News: School of Public Health

Nevada saw more than 5,200 excess deaths between March 2020 and January, most attributed to COVID-19, new academic research shows.

The Southern Nevada Health District Monday announced the first detection of the Brazilian COVID-19 variant (P.1) in Clark County.
COVID-19 has had a severe and disproportionate impact on the Black community in the U.K, they are twice as likely as white people to catch the virus. Black people are also overly represented in the numbers of those working in the National Health Service (NHS). We can’t afford to ignore the worrying implications.

About 34 percent of Metropolitan Police Department employees are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, a rate Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo called “unacceptable.”
All Nevadans 16 and older are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday, a milestone in a pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives in the state.

If you feel your allergies coming on, doctors say put a mask on.

All it took was one shot, and Veronica Hernandez-Garcia was vaccinated.

Local charities and organizations understand this is a tough time for parents, and there are resources available for those struggling to raise and take care of their children.

