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If your loved one, best friend or roommate is one of the few who has yet to get on board with coronavirus public-health recommendations — even in the midst of what the U.S. surgeon general warned could be the “hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives” — there are still a few strategies at your disposal.

UNLV is temporarily suspending tuition late fees.

UNLV is temporarily suspending tuition late fees.

Dr. Brian Labus, an assistant professor in epidemiology and biostatistics at UNLV and a member of the medical team advising Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, and Review-Journal health reporter Mary Hynes sat down Wednesday to answer readers’ questions about COVID-19 and the coronavirus.

LOST VEGAS: UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives is gathering photos of an empty & quiet Las Vegas during the coronavirus pandemic so future generations will get a lens into this time.

Despite their microscopic size and simplistic cells, bacteria are some of the hardiest life forms around. In recent years, scientists have uncovered these stalwart microbes in environments as extreme as the searing hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and the acidic, metal-rich waters that drain out of mines.

As coronavirus spreads, officials across the country are turning to spaces like empty hotels to house patients.

UNLV Medicine received 250 additional COVID-19 test kits Monday night, according to spokesman Paul Joncich. The school will be able to continue curbside testing through Thursday.