Assigning cause of death is rarely as straightforward as it seems, especially when it comes to COVID-19.

The nursing home resident’s first recorded signs of COVID-19 were subtle: a low-grade fever, accompanied by coughing.

Casino companies have been characteristically cautious about when (and if, and in what form) they could reopen buffets after the coronavirus shutdown, but it appears that most will remain on the sidelines, at least for a time.

Just 1.5 percent of tests for COVID-19 have come back positive in the first major program in the Las Vegas area to offer tests to those without symptoms.

It’s been a quiet two months at the end of Homestead Road in Pahrump – a place where mainly men go to find adult pleasures: Sheri’s Ranch, one of Nevada’s legal brothels.

The ongoing pandemic has people thinking about healthy hygiene in many ways they haven’t before. Four months ago, the person standing two feet behind you in the grocery store wouldn’t have made you anxious. Putting a mask on to go outside was the exception, not the rule. While some of the habits we’re adopting are pandemic-specific, experts say there are certain public health measures we should have been practicing all along.

When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?

When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?

When those of us who haven’t been on the front lines finally emerge from our homes — staring curiously at new faces for the first time in weeks, many of us clad in sweatpants and pajama bottoms because our work clothes no longer fit — how will we behave?

As the state moves forward with its multiphase reopening plan, the necessity to track where infected people have been will be just as important as more widespread testing, Las Vegas health experts say.

Like many medical and scientific professionals, UNLV epidemiologist Brian Labus is hesitant to speak in absolutes. But he is certain that Las Vegas poker rooms will have a difficult time preventing the spread of the coronavirus, regardless of limits to the number of people allowed at a table or any plexiglass barriers.

The Southern Nevada Health District has reached out to pool and restaurant inspectors along with sexually transmitted disease investigators to assist in the daunting task of notifying close contacts of people testing positive for COVID-19 that they may have been infected.