In The News: School of Public Health
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Clark County’s mandate for employees to wear masks while in crowded indoor spaces also will apply to casinos, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said Wednesday.
The emergence of people with claims that they are anti-vaccines — especially those who refuse vaccines because they receive false information (hoax) — could further exacerbate the pandemic situation.
Things could soon change once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants full approval to vaccines, according to public health experts.
Las Vegas is joining Los Angeles in reinstalling the mask mandate for being indoors.
As COVID vaccination rates stall, and the Delta variant spreads across the U.S., the Biden administration announced in early July that it will implement several strategies to encourage more people to get vaccinated.
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Elected officials in Las Vegas decided Tuesday not to impose a full mask mandate for everyone strolling the Strip and gathering in crowded spaces and indoors as coronavirus cases climb.
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Elected officials in Las Vegas decided Tuesday not to impose a full mask mandate for everyone strolling the Strip and gathering in crowded spaces and indoors as coronavirus cases climb.
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Elected officials in tourism-dependent Las Vegas worried Tuesday about public health and the economic effects of a spike COVID-19 cases — particularly the highly contagious delta variant.
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Elected officials in tourism-dependent Las Vegas worried Tuesday about public health and the economic effects of a spike COVID-19 cases — particularly the highly contagious delta variant.
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We may someday look back on the hell year of 2020 as the year with the fewest covid deaths. That’s because of the high rates of people who currently refuse to be vaccinated, are nervous because they are getting dishonest information, and those who have not been given access to the vaccine.
Refusing injection is a time bomb for everyone.
As residents of Los Angeles County enter their first week of being required to wear face masks because of rising numbers of coronavirus cases among unvaccinated people, new cases are increasing in all 50 states.