In The News: School of Public Health

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

A $3.4 million grant will allow the UNLV School of Public Health to expand contact tracing efforts.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Sharon Linsenbardt is hoping people will pick her pumpkins despite the pandemic.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Sharon Linsenbardt is hoping people will pick her pumpkins despite the pandemic.

Healthline

With schools around the United States beginning to cautiously return their students to on-campus classes, many parents have questions.

El Tiempo

"No Mask Nevada" held a rally outside the home of Governor Steve Sisolak in southwest Las Vegas on Monday afternoon to protest his mandate to wear a mask.

Wyoming Public Media

Retailer CVS announced plans last week to double its COVID-19 drive-through test sites at locations across the U.S., including in two Mountain West states.

Las Vegas Review Journal

No Mask Nevada hosted a rally in front of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s southwest Las Vegas home on Monday afternoon to protest his mandate on face coverings.

El Tiempo

The Las Vegas Cosmopolitan topped reports on possible COVID-19 exposures in June, July and August in southern Nevada, according to state disease research analyzes obtained by the Review-Journal.

Las Vegas Review Journal

More than 1 in 4 Clark County residents who tested positive for COVID-19 over the past month told disease investigators they had visited a resort, hotel or motel, the state revealed Thursday.

Well and Good

An unpublished press release from the United States Postal Service details an early plan to distribute 650 million face masks beginning in April. The plan, blocked by the Trump administration, would have provided five reusable cotton face masks to every American household. Orleans and Jefferson parishes in Louisiana would have been the first areas to receive face coverings, with deliveries then going to King County, Washington; Wayne County, Michigan; and New York, reports the Washington Post.

Las Vegas Sun

The day after President Donald Trump’s largely maskless, packed Henderson rally, medical experts have weighed in, and their prognosis is not good.

Las Vegas Review Journal

President Donald Trump’s massive Sunday evening rally in Henderson has already led to a fine against its host, but Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak and public health experts warned Monday that far deeper impacts may be on the way.