New indoor mask requirements go into effect at federal facilities including Nellis Air Force Base and the visitors center in the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area.
COVID-19
UNLV stopped short of mandating masks, but strongly recommended them Monday.
COVID-19 self-test vending machines have opened at two locations, according to a Southern Nevada Health District news release.
Official case counts can be misleading, with a new study showing more than three uncounted cases for every confirmed case.
The Interior Department says Deb Haaland is isolating in Nevada where she took part in a roundtable discussion Tuesday about clean energy production on public lands.
Most metrics have been on the rise for months, but the rate of the increase has gone up in recent weeks.
“We’re starting to see a slight uptick in positive cases, so anything somebody can do to protect themselves and if you do get COVID, it’d be a lot less severe,” Gov. Steve Sisolak said.
Slot machine manufacturers have made their products flashier and combined with pent-up demand resulting from the pandemic, revenue records have been falling since 2021.
Clark County’s case rate per 100,000 people, another key CDC metric, also increased this week from 86.07 to 110.69.
Clark County saw another jump in COVID-19 metrics this week. Hospitalizations also have increased.
New omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1, believed to be better at evading immunity from natural infection and vaccination, is on the rise in Clark County, a health official said.
Widows of two officers who died of COVID-19 wonder why the Metropolitan Police Department did not classify them as line-of-duty deaths.
All major COVID-19 metrics increased over the last week in Clark County, according to a weekly report released Wednesday.
“There were just days where you felt like you were a chicken running with your head cut off,” traveling nurse Lauren Meadows said about her contract in Las Vegas.
Many Americans agree that they’re going to “be stuck with it forever” — or, at the least, for a long time.
