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.”
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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.
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.
Nevada state government had this to say Friday to all of the people clamoring to be tested for the new coronavirus: Many of you should stop trying to be tested.
Health authorities on Friday reported a second death in Clark County from coronavirus, as the number of cases in Nevada rose to 154.
The statewide total was up from 86 cases as of late Wednesday.
Nevada’s health care insurance portal is offering a special open enrollment period for qualified residents amid the coronavirus outbreak in the state.
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.”
Figures provided to the Review-Journal last week by the only two public labs in the state indicate that only a few hundred tests had been administered so far.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
An undisclosed number of students at a Reno area school experiencing “flu-like symptoms” are being tested for the novel coronavirus.
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.
Nevada’s top medical official says it’s a matter of when, not if, the coronavirus appears in Nevada.
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