Despite thousands still waiting, an analysis shows Nevada performed better than expected, and improved speed in March and April.
Arthur Kane
Reporter: Investigations
Email: akane@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0286
X: @ArthurMKane
Art has been a reporter, editor, producer and executive producer at top metro newspapers and a top 20-market television station. His work sparked indictments, audits and changes to state law. He has been honored with two DuPont-Columbia awards, a Peabody and been a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors honor.
Las Vegas police repeatedly tried to make a chronic nuisance case against the Alpine Motel before a fatal fire in 2019, but city officials said the apartments didn’t meet the standards.
Dr. Ivan Goldsmith’s medical license was made inactive after the Nevada medical board found he accessed medical records of the Oct. 1 shooter without treating him as a patient.
Questions are being raised about civil liberties under strict coronavirus shutdowns. Enforcement has led to violence, arrests and fines in some states.
Business leaders say the governor needs to be more transparent about plans to reopen the Nevada economy. Sisolak issued a directive late Wednesday extending the stay-at-home order.
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.
Las Vegas drive-up clinics expect more coronavirus tests this week, and there is hope a new rapid-result test will boost availability.
A Las Vegas congregation is asking Nevadans for submissions to a Book of Life for the regent after his death Friday.
Federal agents looked into the owner and other properties as part of a 2019 investigation, months before the downtown building was the site of a deadly fire.
Nevada officials have stated they need more COVID-19 test kits. Four times they have asked federal officials for help only to be told there is a “indefinite backlog.”
The FDA allowed Nevada to become one of three states that are allowed to develop and evaluate tests for infection by the new coronavirus.
Nevada has one of the lowest ratios of doctors and nurses for our population. Patients suffering coronavirus symptoms will have fewer places to turn to for care.
Las Vegas patients are encountering multiple errors with drive-up COVID-19 tests. One woman had to return a second time after the test was administered improperly.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled autopsies are public in response to an RJ lawsuit. Clark County spent more than $80,000 in taxpayer money fighting to keep autopsies secret.
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