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Clark County hosts virtual town hall on coronavirus

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This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, gray, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
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April 27, 2020 - 6:08 pm
 
Updated April 28, 2020 - 10:34 am

Clark County hosted an “Ask the Medical Experts” tele-town hall about the coronavirus at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The tele-town hall featured Dr. Shadaba Asad, University Medical Center’s medical director of infectious disease, and Dr. Luis Medina-Garcia, an infectious disease physician at the hospital. Asad answered questions submitted by residents.

Contact Mary Hynes at mhynes@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 on Twitter.

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