Dr. Melva Thompson-Robinson knows the data on the disparate impact of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 on African Americans and other minorities. Her key concern is how racism and unconscious bias continue to act as an accelerant of the pandemic.

COVID-19 has created a lot of uncertainty in higher education for dorm life, tuition and online education.

Since March 24, the UNLV School of Medicine has administered more than 7,000 drive-thru tests.

Amid the pandemic, unions and districts are renegotiating labor contracts to address long-term closures at an unprecedented rapid pace, but experts suggest collaboration may fizzle in the summer.

On a beautiful summer morning that would normally see summer semester in full swing, the UNLV campus was quiet and still.

The modern American school system began in 1837 with the creation of the first state Board of Education in Massachusetts. Nearly 200 years later, the closure of schools nationwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a seismic jolt to that system, as school districts and college campuses across the country scramble to move classrooms online—and try to replace what’s being missed.

“Do you think pubic hair is gonna be back in style after quarantine?” is a text message I recently received from a man I went on a few dates with shortly before going out on dates with people stopped being a thing.

About three weeks into the shelter-in-place order by Gov. Steve Sisolak, I found myself wide awake at 2 a.m., reading The New York Times. I had been following the pandemic updates there as much as in the local news. I lived in New York City for more than a decade before moving here, and I worried about friends and former colleagues.

Some businesses in Las Vegas will reopen Saturday after nearly two months into the coronavirus lockdown. But hospitality workers still grapple with uncertain future.