Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations.
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Testing from a UNLV researcher’s team showed the more contagious UK coronavirus variant showed up in sewage samples from December.
The 12 new cases was the lowest overnight increase reported since the early days of the outbreak of the disease in Nevada. State numbers also were well below average.
Experts say wearing gloves when you’re out and about won’t protect you if they transmit the virus to another surface, then you touch your eyes, nose or mouth.
Patients and doctors alike are parsing signs of illness to figure out who needs what tests or care and how worried they should be.
The new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists show.
Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak has caused the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to make adjustments to its upcoming General Conference in April.
Those 18 and under have made up just 2.4 percent of cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to a report released in late February by the World Health Organization.