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If your loved one, best friend or roommate is one of the few who has yet to get on board with coronavirus public-health recommendations — even in the midst of what the U.S. surgeon general warned could be the “hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives” — there are still a few strategies at your disposal.
Dr. Brian Labus, an assistant professor in epidemiology and biostatistics at 51ԹϺ and a member of the medical team advising Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, and Review-Journal health reporter Mary Hynes sat down Wednesday to answer readers’ questions about COVID-19 and the coronavirus.
Despite their microscopic size and simplistic cells, bacteria are some of the hardiest life forms around. In recent years, scientists have uncovered these stalwart microbes in environments as extreme as the searing hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and the acidic, metal-rich waters that drain out of mines.
As coronavirus spreads, officials across the country are turning to spaces like empty hotels to house patients.
Like Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, and the Fourth of July, Tax Day in America is associated with the same calendar date each year.
Tests for COVID-19 are hard to come by. Now it will be even tougher to get results in the valley.
Nevada’s northern and southern labs are out of coronavirus testing swabs, but officials expect to get more kits this week, including rapid-result test kits, Gov. Steve Sisolak said Monday.