Southern Nevada’s major hospitals plan to resume performing “medically necessary” elective surgeries Monday, according to a Nevada Hospital Association letter.
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About half of Southern Nevada’s public employee union contracts are set to expire in June, just as the financial damage from coronavirus closures will be made more clear.
The Nevada chapter of Service Employees International Union outlined hazards it alleges are still ongoing at a swath of large hospitals across the state.
The conflict between maintaining a sick employee’s confidentiality and disclosing the infection to other employees is likely to continue as cases grow in Las Vegas companies.
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The president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 711 said there was an “urgent need” to lower the 50 percent capacity limit at Las Vegas stores.
The latest case comes after positive tests among workers at other stores in the Las Vegas Valley, including those at Smith’s Food and Drug, Vons and Costco.
Las Vegas police have put a stop to a special program that allowed officers to get a trim at department properties this week despite a statewide shutdown.
Though Nevada hair salons and barbershops were forced to close, hair cuts at department headquarters and substations this week are being offered to officers.
The illness can lead to pneumonia, multi-organ failure and death. As of Saturday, the virus had hospitalized more than 400 people in Clark County and killed 41.