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It was all smiles in North Las Vegas on Thursday as Gov. Steve Sisolak and other community leaders gathered to hand out the first of $5 million in prizes to vaccinated Nevadans.
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If approved, the change would ban smoking — including the use of electronic cigarettes — and tobacco products such as chewing tobacco in all university spaces, both indoors and outdoors. It would apply to students, employees, contractors and vendors, and visitors.
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Just a month after it gave the new Alzheimer's drug aducanumab (Aduhelm) the green light, the FDA decided to change the label.
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The highly contagious delta variant is fueling a resurgence of the pandemic in Nevada, where cases and infection rates are up and vaccinations lag.
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Typically, the week following a three-day weekend there is a tourist truce. But, as everyone knows, 2021 is far from normal, and the weekend after the three-day July 4 vacation has the makings of a Las Vegas blockbuster.
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It’s been a hectic morning for Guadalupe Serna. She drives for Lyft in Las Vegas, Nevada and the city is almost fully reopened for tourism.
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The speed at which the COVID-19 delta variant spread in Southern Nevada surprised a researcher who hunts for the virus in wastewater.
The odds are more than 1 in a million that you’ll be the one to take home the $1 million grand prize in the “Nevada Vax Days” raffle. Or, to be more precise, about 1 in 1.6 million, according to mathematician Ashok Singh, a professor at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute.
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