Dr. Brian Labus, Epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, and RJ Health reporter Mary Hynes cover the latest topics surrounding COVID-19 in Nevada.
Topics this week:
1. CONTACT TRACING PLAN INCLUDES FILLING 400 POSITIONS IN CLARK COUNTY
2. HOW ARE LOCAL HOSPITALS HANDLING SPIKE IN HOSPITALIZATION RATES?
3. ARE MASKS WORKING?
While face masks, and rules requiring customers to wear them, have become divisive political issues for certain businesses, several local restaurants have embraced them as marketing opportunities. “I’m a big believer in branding and marketing,” explains Sparrow + Wolf’s chef and owner Brian Howard, who quickly sold out of his first shipment of 200 branded face masks. “If I can have somebody support our brand and showcase it, then there’s an opportunity there.”
MGM Resorts International put a mask on the Statue of Liberty outside of the New York-New York resort to remind those on the Las Vegas Strip to wear a face covering.
Kaydee Asher speaks with the RJ about what it’s like having COVID-19, how she may have contracted the virus, and how she’s using her platform to tell other young people to be safe. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Wearing face masks in Nevada will be mandatory in nearly all public spaces as the state seeks to slow, then reverse a resurging spread of COVID-19 infection without backtracking on the reopening of businesses and the return of other daily routines.
The Nevada Gaming Commission may be asked to discipline gaming licensees that fail to require customers to comply with Gov. Steve Sisolak’s new order mandating facial coverings in public areas.
Guests at Caesars Entertainment Corp. properties will be required to wear masks while inside its properties, effective immediately.
The state Gaming Control Board has ordered Nevada casinos to require players and spectators of most casino table and card games to wear protective face coverings.
The state Gaming Control Board has ordered Nevada casinos to require players and spectators of most casino table and card games to wear protective face coverings.
The Mask Posse of Las Vegas donated 1,500 masks to residents of the Stewart Pines Apartments senior community with the assistance of Las Vegas Councilwoman Olivia Diaz and her staff, who coordinated distribution. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Now that we’ve been asked to wear masks in public, people are showing us their masks. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
You have questions and we have the answers! The RJ’s Renee Summerour sits down with Epidemiologist and member of the faculty of UNLV’sSchool of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, Dr. Brian Labus and RJ Health Reporter Mary Hynes for a round-table discussion about questions people have surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Amazon established a new section of its website where U.S.-accredited hospitals or state or federal agencies can apply for supplies. N95 masks, surgical masks, facial shields, surgical gowns, surgical
gloves and large-volume sanitizers are among the restricted items. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Polar Shades is a company in Las Vegas that creates window shades, but they are willing to convert their manufacturing plant to make protective equipment for first responders and health care workers— if they could get the materials. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said in an interview on ‘Fox & Friends’ that individuals may increase their risk of contracting coronavirus by wearing masks. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
