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Cancelled conventions to impact Las Vegas economy

It’s too early to know the financial impact of the cancellations, but last year the Las Vegas conventions and business meetings generated $6.3 billion of direct economic impact and about 6.6 million business travelers, according to a report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Doubts, tensions rise as US virus death toll hits 9

All of the deaths — including the latest one reported, which happened last week but was not tied to the virus until now — have occurred in Washington state.

White House seeks to reassure on coronavirus

As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus claimed six people and Axios reported that some test kits produced at a Center for Disease and Prevention Control lab may have been contaminated, the Trump White House tried to reassure the public.