U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in a Dec. 14 statement to Parliament that a new strain of coronavirus has been identified in southeast England.

It may or may not be the “Fauci effect,” but Southern Nevada’s medical schools are seeing a surge in the number of applications for admission in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Typically these summary articles open with a statement something like “it’s been an eventful and challenging year”, or something. We will not, hopefully, have to resort to such hyperbole in future years – because in 2020, it has been true. Here in the Center on Children and Families, we continued to develop our work under the Future of the Middle Class Initiative – and there’s lots more to come over the next few months. (Check out in particular our New Contract with the Middle Class, a synthesis of big ideas to help the middle class and featured below.)

Reported cases of people getting reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are rare in the U.S. and none have been confirmed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But researchers say studying possible reinfections could answer some big questions about the body’s natural immune response after being infected with the virus.

There’s so much COVID-19 data being reported. What does it all mean? KUNR’s Lucia Starbuck talks to Brian Labus, an epidemiologist with Nevada’s COVID-19 medical advisory team, to break down what the numbers can tell us.

It was a down-in-the-mud presidential campaign, but the dirtiest part comes on Inauguration Day.

It was a down-in-the-mud presidential campaign, but the dirtiest part comes on Inauguration Day.

Thirteen community-based organizations that support Nevada’s immigrant communities have given out $1 million in funding.

It was a down-in-the-mud presidential campaign, but the dirtiest part comes on Inauguration Day.