Health officials announced plans to train and add more than 400 new positions to handle contact tracing of local COVID-19 patients as they battle rising case numbers in Clark County and an ever-increasing statewide infection rate.
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Health officials reported 948 new COVID-19 cases and one death in Nevada on Monday, breaking a streak of five days with more than 1,000 cases reported in the state.
The term is used when a local lab obtains a positive result when testing for a disease and sends it to the federal CDC to be confirmed.
In Twitter post, the nation’s top doctor says the masks don’t protect from coronavirus and other airborne pathogens and a shortage could endanger health care workers.