In mid-May 2022, still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, another virus arrived on the scene in Massachusetts: monkeypox. The vaccine to cure the condition was accessible, but the coronavirus was the overwhelming priority for millions of lives in the United States.

A cruise ship carrying 800 Covid-positive passengers recently docked in Sydney after being hit with a major COVID-19 outbreak—a scenario eerily reminiscent of the early pandemic days. It was a stark reminder that the pandemic is not over, and that cruising still presents a certain level of COVID-19 risk.

The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to decline in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all counties having low levels of the disease.

The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all of its counties experiencing low levels of the disease.

You know your child is sick—they have a fever, chills, and a cough. But it can be challenging to decipher whether they have COVID-19, the flu, RSV, or something else. Now, you may be able to determine what is causing their symptoms with one simple nose swab at home. But it's not as simple as you think.

When Steve Sisolak won the governor’s race in 2018, it marked the first time Nevada elected a Democratic governor in two decades, ushered in by a blue wave that also gave Democrats their first trifecta — control of the governor’s mansion, the Senate and the Assembly — in three decades.

After a post-Thanksgiving spike this month, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and across the state continue to decline, new state data shows.

After a post-Thanksgiving spike this month, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and statewide continue to decline, new state data shows.

In New Zealand, the parents of a baby who needs life-saving open heart surgery insist that his blood transfusion comes from donors who haven’t had the COVID-19 vaccine. Anti-vaccine campaigners have recently used this case to focus on the lingering claim that those who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 have “clean blood” or “pure blood” and that it’s dangerous for them to receive a transfusion from someone who is vaccinated. For example, anti-vaccine activist Steve Kirsch claims that because of COVID-19 vaccination, “The safety of the blood supply is unknown.” The parents of the baby have appeared on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast, defending their position.

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has brought together hundreds of thousands of people to see soccer’s greatest competition. Amid the revelry, some health experts are warning about the possibility of a virus being spread among the crowd. That condition is called Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

New cases of COVID-19 in Clark County jumped by 50 percent this week, likely due in part to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to state data released Wednesday.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have continued to increase over the past week in both Clark County and the state, according to data released Wednesday by the state.