Ronald Pipkins, 55, was wheeled out of the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas to a series of cheers from the staff.
Briana Erickson
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
COVID-19 cases and deaths have spiked sharply in nursing homes and assisted living centers, and now account for more than 16 percent of the state’s fatalities from the disease.
Nevada has recorded 111 more COVID-19 cases and three more deaths from the disease in nursing homes, assisted living centers and other institutions since it unveiled a new tracking tool on Monday.
Following a virtual graduation ceremony Saturday at the Air Force Academy, the Thunderbirds will recognize the Class of 2020 with a flyover in Colorado Springs. The squadron also will conduct flyovers to honor medical professionals and first responders.
When he awoke at the VA hospital in North Las Vegas, Ronald Pipkins was stunned to learn that he was the first presumptive positive case in the state of Nevada.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved more than $254,000 in emergency services purchases for the quarantine facility for the homeless at Cashman Center.
The Nevada National Guard’s deployment in response to the state’s coronavirus crisis expanded sharply Tuesday and will now be the largest state activation in its history.
Clark County and the city of Las Vegas’ ISO-Q (Isolation and Quarantine) Complex at Cashman Center for the homeless was to begin accepting patients on Monday night.
Six residents of the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home previously tested positive. One resident, an 86-year-old Navy Korean War veteran, died March 28 from complications related to COVID-19 after he was admitted to a hospital.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a Henderson woman realized that some people might have items other people needed, and vice versa, so she created the group on Facebook to set up a barter system.
The nonprofit affordable housing provider Share Village in Las Vegas is reporting its first COVID-19 case in a resident.
Twenty assisted living and nursing facilities in Nevada have confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, according to a state report released this week.
The space at existing facilities will be augmented by new makeshift isolation wards being built at the Southern Nevada Health District headquarters and at Cashman Center.
In his final days, Edward Turken, 96, serenaded his son over the phone with tunes like “Stayin’ Alive” and “California Dreamin’ ” from his bed in the ICU unit at Summerlin Hospital.
The Southern Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City has confirmed two additional cases, bringing the total number of infections at the facility to six.