The agency warns that some coronavirus antibody tests are inaccurate and said even the better ones should not be used to determine who can safely return to work or school.
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The Clark County-run medical center in Las Vegas says it is the only hospital in Nevada to test all admitted patients for COVID-19.
Nurses at a hospital in Las Vegas held a protest Thursday morning over what they say are planned layoffs and pay cuts by the hospital’s owner.
Wearing face masks isn’t just a 21st-century thing. Some localities in Nevada enacted laws requiring citizens to wear masks in public during 1918 and 1919.
Clark County officials hope the relocation of the coronavirus testing site to UNLV will capture data from a population thus far underreported: children.
While testing for COVID-19 is becoming available to more Clark County residents, testing of the homeless remains haphazard even though they are at high risk.
Nevada health investigators designated Horizon Health and Rehabilitation in Las Vegas as one of four “high risk” nursing homes in the state.
More women are infected with the virus. Doctors and scientists are looking at the biological and behavioral differences to find out why.
A spokeswoman for the nonprofit blood service provider Vitalant said Thursday that there is a one-day supply of blood remaining in the region.
About half of the residents at 190-bed The Heights in Summerlin have been infected by the new coronavirus. The death toll is now the highest at any state-regulated institution.
The rate of positives from the Orleans site where anyone can be tested is much lower than the overall state rate of about 8 percent.
Target is extending its $2-an-hour hour temporary wage increase through July 4. Smith’s is ending the pay May 23 and offering one-time bonuses instead.
Luis A. Frias led a troupe of dancers before international audiences in the 1980s and early ’90s. He died alone April 25, quietly and without an audience, in Las Vegas.
An expert says research suggests a combination of heat and humidity slows the spread of COVID-19, but studies have not looked at a dry, hot environment like the Southwest.
During the first week of Nevada’s initial emergence from the coronavirus-triggered shutdown, the state’s largest charity devoted to ending domestic violence experienced an explosion of calls to its hotline.