
Pandemic Chronicles: Post-vax dos and don’ts
Sara W. of Sparks is 73 and received her two COVID-19 vaccines. She’d really like to spend some time with her school-age grandchildren, and, God forbid, hug them. Should she? Mark and Anne B. of […]
Sara W. of Sparks is 73 and received her two COVID-19 vaccines. She’d really like to spend some time with her school-age grandchildren, and, God forbid, hug them. Should she? Mark and Anne B. of […]
Nevada is still lagging behind some states in the per capita distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations, federal data show, but the Silver State’s standing has improved from third-to-last in the nation last month to being ranked […]
Compassion is contagious; kindness is catching. Love is a multiplier of both. In March, a woman in Florida began a grassroots effort to encourage people who are in a relatively good financial position during the […]
If researchers came up with a method to challenge the mental health of every human on the planet, they couldn’t have designed a better test than the isolation and demoralization embedded in COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s […]
UPDATE, Feb. 22, 2021: Southern Nevada has reported six known cases of a more contagious UK COVID-19 variant and detected that genome in Las Vegas’ wastewater. On Feb. 18, Washoe County officials confirmed that the […]
NOTE: This story was updated with new information on Jan. 15. In state-specific projections of the percentage of Americans who will accept the COVID-19 vaccine, Nevada is at or near the bottom of the lists. […]
Esperanza, 56, lost her job as a Reno hotel maid in March, when COVID-19 restrictions closed Nevada’s casinos. Because she is an undocumented immigrant, she couldn’t apply for unemployment benefits and wasn’t eligible for help […]
With the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in Washoe County, the end of the pandemic is in sight, but the road to that finish line is paved with long waits and continued precautions against virus […]
If the region’s intensive care hospital beds reach 90% occupancy over the holidays, a “scoring” system to determine which COVID-19 patients get what kind of treatment is ready to be activated. “We’re in a process […]
The majority of Northern Nevadans protected from eviction through rental assistance subsidies were single mothers and their children who were already living on the brink of financial calamity prior to the pandemic, program data show. […]
When a Nevada National Guard contingent rolled up to Washoe County’s COVID-19 testing site at the Reno Livestock Events Center early on an April morning, overworked and overwhelmed front-line responders felt like the defenders of […]
Who are you going to believe, the president or your lying eyes? Twitter users faced that dilemma Dec. 1 when President Donald Trump re-tweeted a Las Vegas blog’s assertion that Renown Regional Medical Center’s 700-bed […]
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