Two new deaths from the flu have been recorded in Clark County in the past week, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Mary Hynes
Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
A Clark County resident with a possible case of the 2019 novel coronavirus has tested negative, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Sunday. .
Las Vegas resident Hanna Olivas, who emerged as a right-to-die advocate following her blood cancer diagnosis, has created a nonprofit to assist others living with the disease.
The resident has been discharged from a local hospital and is in isolation at home, said the Southern Nevada Health District, which is awaiting test results from the CDC.
While the global spread of the new coronavirus from China grabs headlines, the flu already has sickened 15 million people in the U.S. and killed about 8,200 this season.
Southern Nevada Health District officials said that the possible case of a new coronavirus has been found in a resident of Clark County who recently visited Wuhan, China.
Representatives with Walgreens and CVS said that they are working with their suppliers to meet an increased demand for items such as face masks and hand sanitizer.
As thousands of tourists from China and other Asian countries arrive in Las Vegas to celebrate the Lunar New Year, experts say the new coronavirus poses no immediate threat.
McCarran International Airport is not taking special precautions as a result of the deadly coronavirus outbreak circulating mostly in China.
Erica Stiles, a student at Touro University Nevada in Henderson, agreed to play a patient as part of a classroom ultrasound demonstration last year.
The nonprofit says type O blood donors are especially needed, as it has less than a three-day supply available.
Parents who say their daughter was attacked and traumatized at Montevista Hospital are speaking out in hopes of spurring change at the facility cited by regulators in 2019.
So far this flu season, there have been 758 people hospitalized with the flu in Clark County, and 11 deaths, including that of a child under the age of 5.
University Medical Center hosted a luncheon on Wednesday to recognize emergency medical personnel who responded to the Alpine Motel Apartments fire before dawn on Dec. 21.
The organization had been paying a fee since 2002 to use Easterseals’ name and logo.