County health officials said Friday that first-dose appointments will not be available next week at the health district or its partner clinics.
Mary Hynes
Health reporter
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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.
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.
UMC has partnered with Vitalant to host the TeamUMC Blood Drive on Wednesday. Walk-ins are welcome.
Five additional cases of the more contagious new coronavirus strain first identified in the U.K. have been detected in Clark County, the Southern Nevada Health District said late Tuesday.
Those who are ineligible will be turned away from the Las Vegas Convention Center site, health district officials said.
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