The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the first viral outbreak Brian Murphy has seen as a health care professional in Las Vegas. An HIV caregiver since the 1980s, he sees lessons …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
In coronavirus era, funeral providers attend to mourners as best they can
Billy Vallie Jr. couldn’t imagine saying his final goodbye to his beloved grandmother with the limitations brought on by social distancing guidelines out of concerns for limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Funeral traditions are meant to help que…
Protestors call for Sisolak to reopen state, stop telling them ‘what to do’
During another time, if the country wasn’t battling a global pandemic, a passerby might have confused the gathering as a festive “Make America Great” rally.
State unemployment website temporarily down
The State Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation site will be dark for six hours beginning at 1 p.m. to improve system performance and “access expansion” …
Nevada’s reported death toll from coronavirus exceeds 140
Nevada health officials report that the state has had at least 151 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak as of Saturday morning …
Nevada physicians, health experts weigh in on coronavirus treatments
While a vaccine for COVID-19 won’t be available for the next several months and into 2021, hospitals and labs around the world are racing to find the best effective treatment for supportive care to buy time for patients’ survival. Some of the most tal…
As scammers seek to capitalize on virus fears, authorities in Nevada mobilize
The scam artists are going after the recently issued stimulus checks. They’re also looking to take advantage of people’s goodwill via fraudulent fundraisers and their desperation …
Nations debate easing virus restrictions as economies falter
Governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to lift economically painful virus-control measures as unemployment rises and rent payments come due.
ESPN, NFL Network ready to tackle challenges of remote draft
The NFL draft is annually one of the most ambitious productions that ESPN does. Next week’s coverage might go down as THE most ambitious in the network’s 40-year history.
Reinstate? Reassign? Navy to decide fate of fired captain
The Navy’s top admiral will soon decide the fate of the ship captain who was fired after pleading for commanders to move faster to safeguard his coronavirus-infected crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.