The Clark County “Stop, Swab & Go” testing process has begun at three sites in the Las Vegas Valley. Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom was on hand at the Sam Boyd Stadium site to explain the blitz and take a test himself. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
Multidisciplinary artist and community activist Brent Holmes discusses murals being painted at the Moulin Rouge lot near downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Joe Gloria, Clark County’s registrar of voters, wants to reduce the number of planned in-person voting locations available on Election Day.
A new COVID-19 testing site opening inside UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center on Tuesday, Aug. 11. The testing operation is moving indoors from the UNLV Tropicana parking garage. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
The Southern Nevada Health District is helping to alleviate COVID-19 testing demands by setting up smaller, pop-up neighborhood testing sites. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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)
Dr. Brian Labus, Epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, and RJ Health reporter Mary Hynes cover the latest topics surrounding COVID-19 in Nevada.
Topics this week:
1. LOCALIZED TESTING SITES; ALTERNATIVE TO LARGER SITES AND LACK OF APPOINTMENTS.2. LAS VEGAS ICU NURSE SHARES PERSONAL WAR STORIES FROM THE PANDEMIC
2. LAS VEGAS ICU NURSE SHARES PERSONAL WAR STORIES FROM THE PANDEMIC
A COVID-19 testing site moved from the Texas Station parking garage to indoors at the Cashman Center, Aug. 4, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The MSG Sphere at The Venetian has a skeleton crew on the job site to keep watch on the project, but workers recently removed scaffolding and shoring from the site. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
It could take a week or more in some cases to get results, according to test sites and laboratories.
