Posts Tagged ‘coronavirus’
Vegas Rolls the Dice and Reopens Hotels, Casinos, and Restaurants
Nevada’s workforce has been among the hardest hit from the coronavirus pandemic. According to state data cited in an article in the Wall Street Journal, the pandemic and lockdown left one in every three workers in the Las Vegas area jobless. The unemployment rate in Nevada in April reached 28.2% − the highest of any…
Read MoreWildfire Preparedness: Creating a Defensible Space
Wildfire season is once again upon us with the Western United States anticipating raging fires after a winter of not much rainfall. Further exacerbating the potential for real devastation from the wildfires is the coronavirus, which interrupted the normal firefighting training and forest management that typically take place in the spring. Social distancing also presents…
Read MoreCoronavirus Prompts Hotel Industry to Review Risk Management of Infectious Diseases
The Wuhan coronavirus has caused 170 deaths in China with the number of confirmed cases there at nearly 8,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This number now exceeds the tally of 5,327 infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed about 800 people globally in 2002 and 2003.
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