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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Tracking the virus variant
UPDATE, March 28, 2021: Health officials on March 26 said they’ve identified 45 total cases in Washoe County of the COVID-19 variant that originated in the United Kingdom. That indicates there are a lot more […]
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Pandemic Chronicles: Convincing vaccine skeptics
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. […]
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Excluded from pandemic relief
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 […]
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Pandemic Chronicles: a vaccine primer
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 […]
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Surge may spark ‘rationed’ care
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 […]