The search by leaders in the region for bed space for such patients will not end there as officials anticipate facing a crisis affecting cities across the country: Hospital bed shortages.
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Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center is giving each worker only one surgical mask per shift, a critical care nurse said. Those on the front lines are balking at the changing standards.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Monday also reported 19 new cases, bringing the county’s total to 35, and raised the risk of contracting the virus to “moderate.”
Health authorities on Friday announced eight new positive tests for COVID-19 in Clark County and one in Northern Nevada, bringing the state total of coronavirus cases to 20.
The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting three new “presumptive positive” COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases of the new coronavirus to five in Clark County and seven in Nevada.
Those 18 and under have made up just 2.4 percent of cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to a report released in late February by the World Health Organization.
A Clark County resident who has tested positive for COVID-19 remains in serious condition, the Southern Nevada Health District said Friday afternoon.
The first presumptive case of COVID-19 in Nevada was announced on Thursday by the Southern Nevada Health District, while late Thursday a second Nevadan has tested positive in Washoe County.
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