COVID-19
A perennial pandemic?
UPDATE, JULY 28: A renewal of Nevada’s mask mandate goes into effect on Friday, July 30. The CDC lists Washoe County in the “High Transmission” range on its COVID-19 Data Tracker. As of July 28, […]
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COVID-19
Pandemic Chronicles: COVID cases triple in Washoe
UPDATE, JULY 28: A renewal of Nevada’s mask mandate goes into effect on Friday, July 30. The CDC lists Washoe County in the “High Transmission” range on its COVID-19 Data Tracker. As of July 28, […]
COVID-19
Shots on the open range
In Nevada’s far-flung rural counties, known for having more cows than people, livestock are routinely inoculated against a legion of diseases. But COVID-19 vaccinations have gotten a chillier reception from rural residents, many of whom […]
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Pandemic chronicles: Mask whiplash
After 14 months of looking like Old West train robbers, Northern Nevadans are slowly shedding their masks in public. In the first week following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s May 13 announcement that […]
COVID-19
The last restaurants standing
As patrons return to the restaurants and bars that survived a year of pandemic, the businesses face a long march back to profitability. The health crisis and resulting shutdowns, proved fatal for some local eateries […]
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Bridging a language barrier
The full weight of the pandemic suddenly pressed down on Maria Davis in December, when, as her mother lay dying of COVID-19, she got a call from a family whose father had just died of […]
COVID-19
Study volunteers sought
When Austin Meegan, 24, was in the hospital last year staving off organ failure caused by COVID-19, doctors worried that they wouldn’t be able to find a donor who had both survived the virus and […]
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Nevada tribes protect members
A year ago, as the COVID-19 contagion spread across the country like a swift, rolling storm and Americans hunkered down, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony prepared for a battle. “We started our Facebook Live updates weekly […]
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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 […]
COVID-19
Pandemic Chronicles: Shots keep coming
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 […]
City life
Pandemic of LOVE arrives in Reno
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 […]
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Coping with COVID stress
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 […]