The Southern Nevada Health District is helping to alleviate COVID-19 testing demands buy setting up smaller, pop-up neighborhood testing sites. They are taking the weight off of the larger testing facilities, and providing more community based testing, especially in minority and senior communities hit hardest by the pandemic. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
This weeks questions:
ARE THERE OTHER WAYS OF BEING TESTED FOR COVID-19?
HAS THERE BEEN AN INCREASE IN ANTIBODY TESTING IN NEVADA?
ARE THERE DIFFERENT STRAINS OF COVID-19?
AT WHAT RATE ARE NEW CASES BEING HOSPITALIZED?
CAN WE MEASURE THE COVID-19 CURE RATE?
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The Washoe County Health District received a presumptive positive case of COVID-19, the first in Washoe County. The test has been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation.The case is a male resident in his 50s who is linked to the Grand Princess cruise ship outbreak. His condition is stable and he is self isolating at home.The case has a family member who is a student at Huffaker Elementary School in Reno, Nev. Out of an abundance of caution, the Health District requested that Huffaker Elementary School be closed Friday.
