In The News: School of Public Health
For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.
For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.
The famed all-you-can-eat buffets and nightclubs will be gone. It is unknown when big conventions, live shows and sports events will return.
Assigning cause of death is rarely as straightforward as it seems, especially when it comes to COVID-19.
The nursing home resident’s first recorded signs of COVID-19 were subtle: a low-grade fever, accompanied by coughing.
Casino companies have been characteristically cautious about when (and if, and in what form) they could reopen buffets after the coronavirus shutdown, but it appears that most will remain on the sidelines, at least for a time.
Just 1.5 percent of tests for COVID-19 have come back positive in the first major program in the Las Vegas area to offer tests to those without symptoms.
It’s been a quiet two months at the end of Homestead Road in Pahrump – a place where mainly men go to find adult pleasures: Sheri’s Ranch, one of Nevada’s legal brothels.
The ongoing pandemic has people thinking about healthy hygiene in many ways they haven’t before. Four months ago, the person standing two feet behind you in the grocery store wouldn’t have made you anxious. Putting a mask on to go outside was the exception, not the rule. While some of the habits we’re adopting are pandemic-specific, experts say there are certain public health measures we should have been practicing all along.
When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?
When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?
When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?