In The News: School of Public Health
This past week has been the deadliest for COVID-19 in Nevada.
As coronavirus case numbers continue to climb in Nevada, agencies are ramping up target enforcement at businesses across the Valley. The goal is to make sure all health and safety guidelines are being met.
It’s strange how getting a haircut, grabbing a bite to eat and planning a vacation have become so fraught with a sense of anxiety verging on impending doom over the past few months.
It’s strange how getting a haircut, grabbing a bite to eat and planning a vacation have become so fraught with a sense of anxiety verging on impending doom over the past few months.
It’s strange how getting a haircut, grabbing a bite to eat and planning a vacation have become so fraught with a sense of anxiety verging on impending doom over the past few months.
It’s strange how getting a haircut, grabbing a bite to eat and planning a vacation have become so fraught with a sense of anxiety verging on impending doom over the past few months.
Alexander Pope’s expression ‘hope springs eternal’ has been used by long-suffering baseball fans at the start of a new season on how this will finally be the year.
As the debate intensifies over reopening classrooms in the fall, an infectious disease expert at UNLV said he believes data supports in-person learning for some age groups.
The reopening of casinos in Las Vegas contributed to an exponential increase in new daily cases of Covid-19 infection and the overcrowding of local hospitals. Casino workers now live in a constant climate of fear as doctors and nurses try to secure services in overcrowded hospitals. With more than 30,000 infected in the region, Nevada is facing an unprecedented public health crisis with Las Vegas at its epicenter.
“There’s no law,” Las Vegas visitor Genevieve Peters proclaims in the middle of the Wynn Las Vegas casino as she records video of security guards attempting to usher the woman and her friends out of the property for not wearing masks. “It’s illegal and it’s unconstitutional. But yet we are getting walked out by staff.”
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to pummel the United States, Las Vegas seems to be operating business as usual. Casinos have been open since June 4—undeterred by the 123 visitors who have tested positive for the highly contagious virus and the 51-year-old Caesars employee who died in late June.