Questions are being raised about civil liberties under strict coronavirus shutdowns. Enforcement has led to violence, arrests and fines in some states.
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“I really believed that she was going to fight it off, that she was going to make a comeback,” Michele Franzese Rustigan said. “And when that doesn’t happen, it’s super weird.”
The Nevada Hospital Association reportedly threatened to withhold critical reports if state agencies made data public.
Even in the care of doctors, Abbie Purney said it took four days for her father to get tested, and it took another five days before his family learned the results.
A preliminary hearing in the criminal case against retired Las Vegas tourism boss Rossi Ralenkotter and three others has been delayed for a second time.
Southern Nevada’s major hospitals plan to resume performing “medically necessary” elective surgeries Monday, according to a Nevada Hospital Association letter.
Colorado is allowing some businesses to open this week in some areas of the state despite high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Utah is expected to move its alert level Friday.
About half of Southern Nevada’s public employee union contracts are set to expire in June, just as the financial damage from coronavirus closures will be made more clear.
The Nevada chapter of Service Employees International Union outlined hazards it alleges are still ongoing at a swath of large hospitals across the state.
The conflict between maintaining a sick employee’s confidentiality and disclosing the infection to other employees is likely to continue as cases grow in Las Vegas companies.
Hospitals across Nevada have faced more complaints in the past seven weeks than OSHA typically receives in an entire year. The union said more are coming.
The president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 711 said there was an “urgent need” to lower the 50 percent capacity limit at Las Vegas stores.
Gov. Steve Sisolak also included a workplace discrimination reminder to stores and other essential businesses as more employees raise health concerns.
The data represent an early snapshot — still missing is race/ethnicity data for 42 percent of the cases in Clark County, and other state cases outside of the county.
The latest case comes after positive tests among workers at other stores in the Las Vegas Valley, including those at Smith’s Food and Drug, Vons and Costco.