{"id":1069,"date":"2020-03-06T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosen-testing.senate.gov\/2020\/03\/06\/rosen-receives-southern-nevada-health-districts-briefing-on-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:24:04","slug":"rosen-receives-southern-nevada-health-districts-briefing-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/2020\/03\/06\/rosen-receives-southern-nevada-health-districts-briefing-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Receives Southern Nevada Health District\u2019s Briefing on Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAS VEGAS, NV<\/strong> \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), received a briefing from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) Acting District Health Officer Dr. Fermin Leguen on the recent developments in the presumptive positive case of coronavirus in Southern Nevada.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cProtecting the health and well-being of Nevadans is my top priority,\u201d <strong>dijo el Senador Rosen.<\/strong> \u201cI had a very productive meeting with Dr. Leguen and members of the Southern Nevada Health District, and I have full confidence that they are appropriately managing the situation at hand and have strategies in place to protect Nevadans and the public\u2019s health. I will continue coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies to ensure that we safeguard the health of Nevadans.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<u><strong>BACKGROUND:<\/strong><\/u> Senator Rosen has taken the following actions in the last month:<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Voted to pass an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/rosen-votes-83-billion-emergency-coronavirus-funding-package\/\">$8.3 billion emergency funding package<\/a> to support federal, state, and local health agencies, to invest in vaccine and treatment development, and support affected small businesses with loan assistance.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Participated in a hearing as a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the federal response to COVID-19 and preparations for future global pandemics, and questioned officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Questioned health experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the opportunity to utilize telehealth as a means of treatment for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Senator Rosen also expressed support for ensuring that health insurance limitations are not an obstacle to patients seeking telehealth care.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Questioned witnesses from the Department of Transportation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the role of aviation in containing the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 during a hearing hosted by the Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Aviation and Space.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Joined with colleagues in sending a number of letters to officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/rosen-colleagues-request-information-labor-secretarys-plans-protect-american-workers-coronavirus\/\">the Department of Labor (DOL)<\/a>, the U.S. Census Bureau, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/rosen-colleagues-request-information-education-secretarys-plans-protect-american-students-teachers\/\">the Department of Education (ED)<\/a>, requesting information on how the departments will be responding to cases of the coronavirus.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Last week, representatives from Senator Rosen\u2019s office attended a briefing with Governor Sisolak and members of Nevada\u2019s public health community to discuss the state\u2019s preparedness for potential cases of coronavirus in Nevada.<br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Last month, Senator Rosen joined her colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar requesting an update on the Administration\u2019s response to the recent coronavirus outbreak.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nNevadans can find updates on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/coronavirus\/\">the Senator\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS, NV \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), received a briefing from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) Acting District Health Officer Dr. Fermin Leguen on the recent developments in the presumptive positive case of coronavirus in Southern Nevada. &nbsp; \u201cProtecting [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_release","tag-covid-19"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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