This week’s viewer questions: More testing rather than new cases? Should we shift resources to antibody testing? What would antibody positive results be used for? Will casino health and safety guidelines help stop the spread? (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Devin Raman, senior disease investigator at SNHD, explains how contact tracing works, noting how local clusters of disease are tracked.
Clark County and University Medical Center are launching a by appointment-only, drive-thru COVID-19 testing at the Orleans hotel-casino parking garage on Tuesday and Wednesday. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A patient in his 60s known only as “Alfred” who had been critically ill with COVID-19 was discharged from Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center Wednesday.
You have questions and we have the answers! The RJ’s Renee Summerour sits down with Epidemiologist and member of the faculty of UNLV’sSchool of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, Dr. Brian Labus and RJ Health Reporter Mary Hynes for a round-table discussion about questions people have surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already raised questions about how long the virus can live on clothing. But what about shoes? (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The World Health Organization has called the spread of coronavirus misinformation an “infodemic.” (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Anissa Gustafson has spent most of her week sewing masks in an effort to assist health care workers in the Las Vegas Valley who are running out because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
RJ Investigations reporter Michael S. Davidson talks about how a rapid influx of coronavirus patients could soon inundate Nevada hospitals, pushing them past their capacity and threatening health care workers’ safety. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Heard Elementary School reported the Clark County School District’s first case of COVID-19 on Thursday, March 19, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Wynn CEO Matt Maddox and Dr. Rebecca Katz give a warning about the coronavirus in Las Vegas and around the world.
COVID-19 is the specific type of coronavirus that has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 enters the body through the mouth, nose or eyes, attaching itself to a protein in airway cells. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
As the deadly coronavirus outbreak spreads, you must take measures to protect yourself. Avoid these sixhandwashing errors to prevent spreading the virus. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Good hygiene is the best defense against COVID-19 according to health experts. Disinfecting surfaces is one of the best ways to combat coronavirus. Tests show that the virus can survive for up to nine days at room temperature. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting three new “presumptive positive” coronavirus cases. That makes five new cases in Clark County and seven in Nevada. (Michael Quine and Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic from its Geneva headquarters on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Until now, the WHO has declined to make a pandemic declaration, which it defines as a “worldwide spread of a new disease.” (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in London is seeking two dozen volunteers to inject themselves with coronavirus. Their intention is to help a company called hVIVO find a vaccine for the disease that has killed almost 4,000 people worldwide so far. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Dr. Anthony Fauci made the comment while making rounds on news programs over the weekend. “It’s possible … you don’t want to alarm people, but given the spread we see, anything is possible,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, via Fox News. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal health reporter Mary Hynes discusses the latest updates on coronavirus in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, March 10, 2020. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
President Trump signed a bill providing $8.3 billion in emergency funding to
combat the coronavirus outbreaK, Friday, March 6, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A man in his 50s who had recently traveled to Washington state and Texas had been hospitalized in an isolation ward in a Las Vegas-area hospital. He is the first case of COVID-19 – coronavirus – in Southern Nevada, confirmed by the Southern Nevada Health District. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
As the deadly coronavirus outbreak spreads, you must take measures to protect yourself. Avoid these 6 handwashing errors to prevent spreading the virus. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
With the CDC’s recent warning that COVID-19 – coronavirus – will likely make its way into the United States, it’s important now more than ever to be prepared. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The message was “you need to be prepared,” Dr. Judith Ford, medical director of clinical quality for HealthCare Partners Nevada, recounted Wednesday, Feb. 26. 2020. Ford and other Southern Nevada health authorities stressed there is no need to panic. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)