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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Clark County recorded 152 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death as of Sunday morning, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Mesquite nurse Susan Yowell, 64, spent a month in New York City after she saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo on television calling on health care professionals around the country to help.
Dr. Zubin Damania has spent the past decade creating videos about health care as ZDogg MD. His latest calls for preparation, not panic, when it comes to COVID-19.
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.
The latest cases are the more serious neuroinvasive form of the illness and occurred in men over the age of 50, the Southern Nevada Health District reported.
The two victims were older than 65 and died of the flu between April 28 and May 4, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The toll so far this flu season, which lasts from October to the end of May compares with 64 deaths that had been reported at this point last year, authorities say.
With the arrival of warmer weather, the Southern Nevada Health District’s Mosquito Surveillance Program is once again taking wing.
The Southern Nevada Health District reported two new flu deaths at the end of March.