Records show the losses are often due to the challenges of administering the highly-sensitive COVID-19 vaccine within a rigid timeframe before it spoils.
Mary Hynes
Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
Nevada’s public health lab has identified the strain in the Silver State, where it currently represents about a quarter of positive cases that are genetically sequenced.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
County health officials said Friday that first-dose appointments will not be available next week at the health district or its partner clinics.
Washoe County on Thursday announced it had detected the first confirmed Nevada case of a coronavirus variant that originated in South Africa.
Vaccination sites at Cashman Center and Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas began accepting some walk-ins 65 and up on Thursday to receive a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Appointments at Southern Nevada Health District sites on Thursday through Saturday and University Medical Center on Thursday and Friday will be rescheduled for next week.
Eligibility to receive COVID-19 vaccine has been extended to a new group in Clark County, and it’s not the 65- to 69-year-olds who have been waiting a month.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccine doses have been frustratingly difficult for many older residents to obtain and off limits at this point to many of Nevada’s elders.
The Southern Nevada Health District will begin to offer second doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the Las Vegas Convention Center vaccination site.
Health reporter Mary Hynes draws on her expertise and sources to answer queries on the COVID-19 vaccine.
A Henderson man credits an experimental treatment for COVID-19 with saving his life and his wife’s.
The clinic administering second doses of COVID-19 vaccine will accept some walk-in patients for the next month, the Southern Nevada Health District said Thursday.
State and local officials promise more tools to help Clark County residents book second doses of COVID-19 vaccine.