Public safety workers line up to enter Cashman Field during COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021.
Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 6:15 p.m.
The Southern Nevada Health District is closing its large Cashman Center COVID-19 vaccine clinic next month to focus efforts on targeted outreach.
The health district says the May 5 closure is because so many residents have been vaccinated, allowing the district and its partners to shift resources to smaller events like pop-up clinics and strike teams to vaccinate higher-risk, harder-to-reach populations. Large-scale operations will continue at the Las Vegas Convention Center clinic.
Cashman is one of the county’s largest COVID-19 vaccination clinics. The site gave a record 7,700-plus shots on Tuesday, the same day federal health officials recommended suspending use of the Johnson & Johnson, or Janssen, vaccine over concerns about an extremely rare but serious potential blood clot side effect. One of the six blood clot cases nationwide, out of 6.8 million doses, occurred in a Nevada woman.
Tuesday also saw a record 6,000-plus doses given at the Convention Center.
As of Thursday, there have been 786,066 COVID-19 doses initiated, 504,475 doses completed, and a total of 1,239,701 COVID-19 vaccines administered in Clark County.
