Exterminators across the Las Vegas Valley are reporting a rise in residential rat calls during the pandemic.
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Las Vegas intensive care nurse Geoconda Hughes discusses how the COVID-19 outbreak has made her question her career choice.
The Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System in Henderson has been used to clean more than 1,700 of the N95 masks since early May.
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.
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.
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.”
“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
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.
The resident has been discharged from a local hospital and is in isolation at home, said the Southern Nevada Health District, which is awaiting test results from the CDC.