Bryce Palafox can wake up five minutes before his classes begin at UNLV and still be on time. There’s no jockeying for a parking spot or racing across campus from the dorms.

About the only people out there working right now are health-care workers, grocery store employees, truckers, gas station attendants and fast-food workers.

UNLV only has enough COVID-19 test kits to conduct testing Monday and possible Tuesday. The university expects to run out of the kits sometime Tuesday unless it receives an additional shipment.

UNLV Medicine’s curbside coronavirus screening program could run out of tests by the end of Tuesday, the School of Medicine said.

The clinical arm of the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine says it will run out of COVID-19 test kits this week.

The question of whether the general public should wear masks when heading outside has lingered for weeks as health officials across the country have scrambled to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus — a pandemic that worsened through the month of March and with no end yet in sight.

As the spread of coronavirus outpaces available testing, one side effect that comes with the plethora of already listed symptoms is paranoia over whether an individual does in fact have this novel coronavirus.

The Nevada State Medical Association is praising efforts by Gov. Steve Sisolak to slow the spread of COVID-19 and streamlining the processes for more licensed medical professionals and medical students to rush to the front lines for care.

UNLV Medicine plans to continue curbside COVID-19 testing on April 6 and 7, then indefinitely, due to the shortage of test kits. According to a press release, they expect to run out of kits after April 7, unless they receive another shipment.