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Hopes for a swift return to the classroom were dashed Tuesday as Clark County’s COVID-19 transmission rates grew too high for most students to safely return to school.
The activity rate — the total number of new COVID-19 cases in a 14-day period per 100,000 population — rose to 76.15 in data released Tuesday by Clark County Public Health.
Years ago, when James Kasper had time off from work, he’d hit up the Value Motel, “the devil’s playground.”
It was the place to buy, sell, use or sleep off drugs. Now, with nearly 18 years of sobriety under his belt and savings in the bank, Kasper plans to turn the derelict motel into a 60-room recovery house.
As COVID-19 rates increase in Clark County, one of the county’s top officials pushed back against broad scientific consensus and challenged public health efforts promoting the use of face coverings to reduce the spread of the disease.
Clark County Council Chair Eileen Quiring O’Brien said she has been told by doctors that there is evidence that wearing face coverings does not help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.
When William Thompson was laid off from his sales job at Smack Plastics in Vancouver in July, he filed for unemployment benefits the next day.
He’s still waiting for them to arrive.
Clark County’s cats are not social distancing. They’ve gotten very close indeed over the past several months, and now local shelters are overrun with kittens. This is what’s known as “kitten season”–the year’s warmest months, when cats are at their most amorous — and it is continuing apace.
“Is it ever kitten season!” said Diane Stevens, marketing director for Furry Friends, a no-kill cat rescue and adoption organization in Vancouver. “In fact, with global warming, I don’t think kitten season every really stops. Kittens are just everywhere right now.”
