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Southern Nevada graduating medical students celebrated their matches with residency programs Friday. But Nevada medical school deans fear a “brain drain.”
State and federal health authorities are investigating ongoing outbreaks at Nevada hospitals and nursing homes of a drug-resistant “superbug” that can lead to serious illness and even death.
Nevada’s key coronavirus metrics remained at high levels on Tuesday, with 1,002 COVID-19 cases and 33 deaths reported, but the state’s test positivity rate registered its third straight decline.
Clark County will start to use a new statewide COVID-19 vaccine registration system next week, replacing individual systems used by local governments.
Clark County reported 1,263 new cases of the coronavirus and 11 additional deaths on Friday, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The Southern Nevada Health District reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, boosting the number in Clark County to 42.
The smaller, residential-style home opening by year’s end in Centennial Hills will focus on providing skilled care and independence for the elderly in a less-institutional setting.
The three-year program, operated in partnership with the UNLV School of Medicine, will accept six new students annually.
In Clark County, the virus had killed 10 people as of Jan. 6, including two children, and resulted in 476 hospitalizations, according to Southern Nevada Health District data.
When Carl Graves realized this spring that he and his roommate no longer could afford their Las Vegas apartment, the 44-year-old pictured himself living on the streets again, as he’d done on and off since 2010.
In 2005, Albert Okura paid $425,000 cash for Amboy, California — a clutch of orphaned buildings in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a long-forgotten, pit stop somewhere out there between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The soul of the town is Roy’s Motel and Cafe.
It’s been a vision of UNLV leaders for years: A widely supported medical school educating the region’s future doctors and bearing the university’s name.
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