COVID-19 not only took away nearly 100,000 years of life through premature deaths, but doubled substance abuse deaths and brought other consequences.

The high court said the vaccine was in the child's best interest, rebuking the mother’s argument that the court should instead determine whether the vaccine is “medically necessary."

As the national COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on Thursday, Southern Nevada health officials reminded the public during a press conference that it does not mean the spread of COVID is over.

As countries and health organizations transition out of a state of emergency, health officials are emphasizing a cautious approach to ensure people are still getting vaccinated and taking preventive measures.

During his contentious campaign to become Nevada governor, Joe Lombardo accused the Democratic incumbent of catering to the family of a donor and their lobbyist who helped an error-prone COVID-19 testing lab get licensed in the state. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra paid a visit to the Advanced Health Care of Reno nursing home just before Christmas to promote seniors getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and influenza as several major holidays quickly approached. 

As federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines dwindles, putting the commercialization of those vaccines in closer sight, public health officials are bracing for access issues, especially among underinsured and uninsured populations.

“We have no way of knowing how severely ill somebody can get, very young or very old, when you are exposed to all three of them (COVID, influenza or RSV),” Pediatrician Jose Cucalon Calderon said.

The new boosters are bivalent vaccines, meaning they stimulate the immune system against two different antigens, in this case the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5.

The state’s under-5 vaccination rate ranks 47th in the country, only ahead of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, per an Aug. 3 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

As the latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant, BA.5, spreads rapidly through the U.S. and Nevada, experts say that low vaccination rates have contributed to the continual morphing and spreading of the virus.

Erik Eisenberg, a 38-year-old executive for the Las Vegas Aviators, said he and his wife felt particularly impatient over the last four months as the vaccine approval for children under 5 was delayed multiple times this year.

Are publicly reported case counts reliable anymore? What is happening with vaccines for children under 5? How will the end of COVID-19 public health emergency affect Nevadans on Medicaid? The Nevada Independent answers these questions and more.

Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) announced Clark County has reached high COVID-19 community transmission and “strongly” recommends people wear masks in public indoor places. 

The number of new COVID-19 cases reported on average each day is on the rise from last week. As of Monday, 828 new cases were reported on average each day over the last two weeks.

Gov. Steve Sisolak announced the end of the state of emergency, meeting a deadline he set earlier this month and joining at least six other states where similar orders are also expiring.

Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office on Wednesday criticized the actions of a politically connected COVID testing contractor that expanded in Nevada without proper licensing and yielded widely inaccurate test results.

Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell discusses Nevada's shift to the endemic phase, the addition of second COVID-19 vaccine booster doses and the removal of the mask mandate in airports, among other topics.

In recent months, Nevada has experienced its lowest case incidences in nearly a year. But uncertainty remains about when the next wave of the virus will hit and what navigating the pandemic will look like in the coming months and years.

An independent report commissioned by Nevada's governor and legislative leaders has recommended an action that inmate advocacy groups long supported but was never implemented — that the state should deliberately reduce its prison population to address current and future pandemics.