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This story is part of the Reno Gazette Journal's essential coronavirus coverage and is provided for free. Please consider subscribing to support our newsroom.  More than 9,000 Washoe County School District employees have been offered the COVID-19 vaccine, but there's no official data on how many teachers and school employees have received it. The district estimated, based on an internal survey, that 80 percent of the district's workforce wanted the vaccine. Confirming who actually got it, though, isn't a question the district will ask.   According to district, every employee will have ha...

As many as 10 percent of people are a no show for vaccine after getting appointment.

Reno Gazette Journal Vaccines are now set to be administered to essential workforce and those ages 70 and older in Washoe County, according to the Washoe County Health District. In following Gov. Steve Sisolak's update to the state's vaccine playbook released on Monday, the health district will begin vaccinating people from those populations first as they receive more doses of the vaccine. "One lane that we'll be working down is with the essential workforce and the other lane is the general population based on age and risk," Washoe County Health District Officer Kevin Dick said. According to...

The Truckee Meadows COVID risk meter remains at a "very high" or red level, according to health officials.  Meter close to orange, or "high" level.

This story is part of the Reno Gazette Journal’s essential COVID-19 coverage and is being provided for free. Please consider subscribing to the RGJ to support our work. Washoe County saw fewer cases for the first seven days of January but health officials cautioned that the decrease was a function of testing frequency. “It is an ‘actual’ decline of cases reported to WCHD due to decreased number of people seeking tests,” the Washoe County Health District said in response to a query by the Reno Gazette-Journal. “This decline does not represent (or) reflect the true disease burden i...