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.
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The hospital celebrated the milestone Saturday of discharging more than 50 patients to date by lining a hallway, and clapping and cheering as patient David Reifer was sent home.
Patient volumes at Southern Nevada hospitals have decreased sharply even as COVID-19 has crested. But hospital officials warn that avoiding the ER could have dire consequences.
Officials are not releasing the names of the people who have died fighting COVID-19. Here’s how you can help tell their stories.
The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic sparked shutdowns, warnings and pushback around the U.S. that are eerily similar to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak more than 100 years later.
For Las Vegas residents and the Strip, experts say, “It’s going to be a long time to get back to what we had at the early part of this year — that ‘normal.’ ”
More Las Vegas Valley medical offices now offer telemedicine appointments, part of a nationwide trend that has seen an explosion in use of the technology.
The patient, identified only as “Alfred,” a man in his 60s, had been critically ill with the disease, officials at Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center said.
In his final days, Edward Turken, 96, serenaded his son over the phone with tunes like “Stayin’ Alive” and “California Dreamin’ ” from his bed in the ICU unit at Summerlin Hospital.
Even before the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits were seeing an increase in the number of seniors seeking food assistance.
Las Vegas drive-up clinics expect more coronavirus tests this week, and there is hope a new rapid-result test will boost availability.
Many shoppers in the Las Vegas Valley were already heeding new federal guidance advising people to wear face masks in public places, even before it was actually issued.
A resident of Sun City Summerlin who tested positive for the coronavirus has died. Five others in the 55-and-older community have tested positive.
SEIU Local 1107 announced the news during a radio interview Thursday night.
“The employee previously had some limited interaction with patients in a clinical setting,” the district stated in a news release.