For patients diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, a bone marrow or cord blood transplant may be their only hope for a cure. Donor Cade Cridland found his match this year.
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COVID-19 has infected at least 40 percent of inmates at the Nye County Detention Center in Pahrump, county and federal data shows.
During the first week of Nevada’s initial emergence from the coronavirus-triggered shutdown, the state’s largest charity devoted to ending domestic violence experienced an explosion of calls to its hotline.
“Our numbers have gone up really quickly in a short amount of time, which means that the virus is moving,” said Dawna Brown, director of Pyramid Lake Tribal Health Clinic.
“Fifty-three years he was beside me, and all of a sudden he’s gone,” Antonio Zantua’s wife, Norma Zantua, said. “It’s scary to face life alone, but you know, I have to be strong and open-minded to face the future.”
After testing positive for the disease, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Rio Lacanlale worried about how many people she might have infected before her symptoms began.
The Nevada Police Union, formerly the Nevada Highway Patrol Association, filed a complaint Thursday with the state-run Employee-Management Relations Board.
“It’s respiratory arrest in its true form: a sudden type of hypoxia and worsening that requires emergent intubation,” one doctor said of a pattern of rapid decline in COVID-19 patients. Such was the case with a Las Vegas radio host.
“It makes you feel so isolated,” said Rachael Anderson, who was quarantined in a hospital room with her infant son before his test results came back negative.
“The question is not if we can prevent COVID-19 from entering ICE detention facilities in Nevada, it is how we can minimize its impact on individuals when it happens,” one immigration lawyer said.
“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
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