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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jul 25, 2021, 02:05 PM Jul 2021

Sisolak's COVID advisor wants mask mandate at UNLV, colleges in Southern Nevada

A member of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s COVID-19 Medical Advisory Team says Clark County’s mask mandate for employees but not the public won’t stop the spread of the more virulent Delta variant and is calling for mandatory masks at state colleges and universities in Southern Nevada.

Brian Labus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at UNLV’s School of Public Health, told the Nevada Board of Regents Friday that Nevada has led the nation in new cases since June.

“Nevada has some of the worst vaccination rates in the country, and unvaccinated people have generally ignored the mandate that they wear masks,” he said. “As a result, SNHD (Southern Nevada Health District) recommended that all people wear masks in public settings regardless of immunization status.”

But Clark County Commissioners voted to mandate masks for employees only, a move Labus called “nonsensical.”

Read more: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/sisolaks-covid-advisor-wants-mask-mandate-at-unlv-colleges-in-southern-nevada/

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Sisolak's COVID advisor wants mask mandate at UNLV, colleges in Southern Nevada (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Conservative visitors I think mostly and rurals are the ones contracting it. ffr Jul 2021 #1

ffr

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1. Conservative visitors I think mostly and rurals are the ones contracting it.
Sun Jul 25, 2021, 02:17 PM
Jul 2021

And since conservatives tend to be bigger sports fans, as in the politics is a game for them analogy, they're more likely to attend sporting events without a mask.

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