In The News: School of Public Health
The CDC’s recommendation of booster shots for kids ages 12 to 15 could help keep them safer in classrooms, according to health experts.
Over the last week, Nevada has experienced a skyrocketing number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that the governor characterized as “alarming” in a recent press release.
Considering Las Vegas’ population is 61.88% white and 12.23% Black, the data shows proportionally Black women are more likely to die in pregnancy-related deaths. Nationally about 700 women die each year from pregnancy-related causes, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control, and Black women are 2 to 3 times as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women.
Days after large crowds of revelers rung in the new year on the Las Vegas Strip, the region’s healthcare providers are again being pushed to their limits by ballooning demand for COVID-19 testing and a surge in new cases and hospitalizations.
Discovered in southern France around the same time that the Omicron variant was discovered in South Africa, IHU has been mostly out of the news until recently.
Home tests fail to reveal all infections
After a holiday break, it's almost time for kids in Clark County to go back to school.
The U.S. is on track for a more typical flu season this winter, creating the potential for a “twindemic” of coinciding flu and COVID-19 surges that could overwhelm hospital emergency rooms, health officials say.
Americans face New Years Eve at home again as U.S. political leaders and health advisers urge people to ditch party plans and avoid larger public events as daily Covid cases beat previous records.
Americans face stay-at-home celebration again as some mayors scale back or cancel public events amid Covid surge.
New Year’s Eve is just four days away and with ongoing COVID-19 concerns around the country, places like New York City are scaling back their celebrations.
Nevada’s public colleges and universities are allowing students who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to register for spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make permanent an emergency mandate.