LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Southern Nevada Health District is no longer offering the previously approved COVID-19 vaccine after announcing on Wednesday that people could still get it.
A news release from the health district on Thursday said it had received updated guidance that the older vaccine should no longer be used because a 2025-2026 vaccine is becoming available.
This comes at a time when the presence of COVID has reached a high level in the county’s wastewater.
A survey of wastewater in the Clark County Flamingo Water Reclamation District Plant shows the concentration levels of COVID in the community were high in June, July, and August. Wastewater surveillance is an early warning system of the presence of the virus in the community before sickness actually occurs…