The kitchen was about as busy as it could be at The Coffee Cup Café in Boulder City on Monday, as they catered to the customers who filled the restaurant to 25% capacity.

Nevada hospitality employees are in the fast lane to receive a COVID-19 vaccine but face a long line before it’s their turn.

Nevada just recorded a record number of COVID-19 deaths: 299 in a week.

The launch this week of COVID-19 vaccines to those 70 and older in Clark County has led to frustration in countless residents who have been unable to book appointments because of limited vaccine supplies and technological glitches.

The largest vaccine campaign in history is underway. So far, 10.8 million COVID-19 doses have been administered in the United States, giving hope that pre-pandemic activities such as watching a movie at the theaters or eating indoors might resume at some point in 2021. But when will the U.S. reach herd immunity against COVID-19?

For all those who think dining in restaurants is no more likely to spread COVID-19 than spending time in a busy supermarket or crowded airplane, Brian Labus has a simple message: It’s just not true.

Health officials say that a majority of Nevadans would need the COVID-19 vaccine for the population to receive herd immunity. That’s when enough people are immunized to slow the spread of infection. KUNR’s Lucia Starbuck has this explainer.

Las Vegas valley hospitals are bracing for the full impact of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays from COVID-19, and one hospital has already issued a disaster declaration because of an influx of patients.