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Clark County hosts virtual town hall on coronavirus

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health ...
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, gray, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
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/ Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 27, 2020 - 6:08 pm
 
Updated April 28, 2020 - 10:34 am

Clark County hosted an “Ask the Medical Experts” tele-town hall about the coronavirus at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The tele-town hall featured Dr. Shadaba Asad, University Medical Center’s medical director of infectious disease, and Dr. Luis Medina-Garcia, an infectious disease physician at the hospital. Asad answered questions submitted by residents.

Contact Mary Hynes at mhynes@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 on Twitter.

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