Plasma from the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 is now being used to treat patients in the Las Vegas Valley with active infections.
Mary Hynes
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Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
Although Nevada and Clark County might be near a peak in COVID-19 cases — or possibly even have passed it — local health authorities say that doesn’t mean the worst is over.
Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District gave giving a telebriefing to members of the news media on Friday.
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Wednesday that it had issued a cease-and-desist order to Sahara West Urgent Care and Wellness in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday halted two Las Vegas operations providing rapid tests for COVID-19 and its antibodies.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, the agency that connects uninsured Nevadans to qualified health plans, has extended a special enrollment period through May 15.
Despite the leveling off seen in recent days in some key categories, public health experts say it’s too soon to say if the state’s outbreak is leveling off.
University Medical Center recently began prescribing hydroxychloroquine to high-risk emergency room patients who test positive for COVID-19 but do not require immediate hospitalization.
The patient, identified only as “Alfred,” a man in his 60s, had been critically ill with the disease, officials at Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging the public to wear cloth masks, citing increasing evidence that people can have the virus without knowing it.
Corey Huh was turned away three times by hospital staff when he attempted to visit his wife, Adriana, because of hospital policies brought on by coronavirus.
Mathematical models aim to chart the path of the new coronavirus in the U.S. and Nevada, but the outcomes can vary wildly depending on basic assumptions about the disease.
The system is a way to reach in an expedited manner those who are contacts of a confirmed case or who have traveled to areas where transmission is widespread.
“The employee previously had some limited interaction with patients in a clinical setting,” the district stated in a news release.
The search by leaders in the region for bed space for such patients will not end there as officials anticipate facing a crisis affecting cities across the country: Hospital bed shortages.