Volunteers at UNLV and Touro University build test kits and key ingredients from scratch to help alleviate a state shortage of tests for the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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Among the questions covered: Who should be tested for COVID-19 and where can they get tested? How should I wear a mask and what sort of protection do cloth masks provide?
UNLV Medicine could run out of coronavirus test kits after Tuesday due to a national shortage. It has been offering curbside testing since March 24.
The Clark County School District has decided not to send its maintenance and custodial employees back to work at school sites after workers expressed concerns that they’ll be exposed to the novel coronavirus without adequate protection.
Medical students in Southern Nevada have taken on the work of screening potential cases of COVID-19 at the Cashman Field temporary homeless shelter in order to free up doctors and nurses to work with patients.
A Las Vegas elementary school informed parents Wednesday that a member of the “school family” has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
A letter from the charter school emphasized that the Southern Nevada Health District does not believe there was “direct exposure” to the school, its staff, students or families.
The cleaning is in response to the spread of COVID-19, though as of Friday the district had no confirmed cases of the virus.
An undisclosed number of students at a Reno area school experiencing “flu-like symptoms” are being tested for the novel coronavirus.
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