State Sen. Pat Spearman, one of Nevada’s most respected and well-known lawmakers, has been hospitalized due to COVID-19, she confirmed to the Review-Journal on Thursday.
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The county has reached a milestone in the effort to identify the spread of infection in the region as statewide cases and hospitalizations rise and the vaccine rolls out.
The race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed had expected.
Earlier this month, Washoe County Judge Barry Breslow found the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation in contempt of a July 22 court order.
Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing them from refrigeration for two nights.
The head of the state laboratory says the more contagious strain of the new coronavirus is likely already here.
Wednesday’s developments came as federal agents were continuing to examine Anthony Warner’s digital footprint and writings.
Nevada signed a $28.4 million contract to hire hundreds of workers in June, paid with federal CARES Act relief funds.
The campaign will appeal to the state’s highest court to weigh in on the Clark County Commission race that Anthony lost by just 15 votes.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Immunization Program Manager Shannon Bennett provided an update to Nevada’s tier system for vaccine distribution at a Wednesday news briefing.
The variant is probably still rare in the U.S., but the lack of travel history in the first case means it is spreading, perhaps seeded by visitors from Britain.
The incoming congressman, elected in a December runoff and set to take office in January, was admitted to a Monroe hospital on Dec. 19.
His comments come as the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 336,000 Americans.
The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County and has no travel history, state health officials said.
State biostatistician Kyra Morgan addressed the governor’s COVID-19 task force on a day in which 1,747 new cases of the disease and 46 deaths were reported.