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An expert says research suggests a combination of heat and humidity slows the spread of COVID-19, but studies have not looked at a dry, hot environment like the Southwest.
Dispatches from inside some Southern Nevada long-term care facilities hardest hit by the disease reveal culture of secrecy amid the pandemic.
Personal care aides provide a crucial lifeline to the elderly or disabled. But amid a pandemic, many are left to fend for themselves when it comes to personal safety.
COVID-19 cases and deaths have spiked sharply in nursing homes and assisted living centers, and now account for more than 16 percent of the state’s fatalities from the disease.
The College of Southern Nevada has reported two more cases of COVID-19 among its students, bringing the total to four in the three-campus system.
The Metropolitan Police Department and Nevada attorney general’s office say there are no plans to check people who are out in public during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevada officials have stated they need more COVID-19 test kits. Four times they have asked federal officials for help only to be told there is a “indefinite backlog.”
“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
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.