Medical students in Southern Nevada have taken on the work of screening potential cases of COVID-19 at the Cashman Field temporary homeless shelter in order to free up doctors and nurses to work with patients.
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Providers continue to work to serve parents who work in essential businesses; Nevada officials work to open more spots for children.
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.
Bracing the nation for a grim death toll, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month.
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.”
UNLV Medicine is offering curbside coronavirus tests — a nasal swab test — by appointment.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Community Ambulance host blood drives for the American Red Cross.
Two more patients in Clark County with COVID-19 have died, bringing the total number of deaths in the state and in Nevada’s most populous county to four.
Hospitals asked, residents delivered. Masks are being made and donated to hospitals throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
A rapid influx of coronavirus patients could inundate Nevada hospitals. An anlysis shows there is only one hospital bed for every 22 people likely to be hospitalized.
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A Las Vegas elementary school informed parents Wednesday that a member of the “school family” has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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 Southern Nevada Health District reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, boosting the number in Clark County to 42.
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.”