Megan Messerly

In this week’s “Coronavirus Contextualized,” we take a look at how Nevada is continuing to recover from its summer COVID-19 wave as the effort to administer booster shots to Nevada’s most at-risk individuals continues.

In Nevada, which ranks last in the nation for nursing home resident vaccination rates, 1 in 4 residents has yet to be fully vaccinated. There are few clear answers why — but an abundance of theories.

In this week’s edition, we look at the state’s improving COVID-19 metrics, though Washoe County started to see a plateau in its declining case numbers this week.

Nevada’s rapidly diversifying electorate didn’t widen the Democratic margin of victory in the state’s presidential election between 2016 and 2020, suggesting newly activated voters of color may not be as reliably Democratic.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the latest inflection point in the pandemic with case numbers appearing to level out in Clark County while starting to climb again in Washoe County.

This week, states across the nation began announcing their first cases of the Omicron variant, the latest COVID-19 to be designated a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization.

This week, we look at the latest COVID-19 data as the holiday season approaches and more cases of the Omicron variant continue to be identified across the U.S., though none have yet been identified in Nevada.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the latest COVID-19 data in Nevada as the Omicron variant arrives in the state, public health officials continue to urge residents to get the vaccine and boosters and the state marks the one-year anniversary of its vaccination effort.

Over more than three decades of service in Congress, Reid earned a reputation for fighting relentlessly to protect his home state and everyday Americans. As Senate Democratic leader for a dozen years, he played an instrumental role in passing the Affordable Care Act and shepherding through Congress …

With the new year comes, yet again, another new set of laws in the books. More than 55 bills enacted by the Legislature in 2021 take effect either in whole or in part today.