Thread by @RileySnyder

I'm following along with the state of Nevada's COVID-19 Mitigation and Management Task Force meeting - starting off with public comment, there was some feedback, but it sounds like the Nye County Commission is going to draft a plan to re-open brothels in the county

An attorney for the Chicken Ranch brothel says brothels have remained closed with "no rational basis provided for the continued closure."

Says there are "plenty" of skin-on-skin industries also currently open, such as dentists

.@GovSisolak weighed in on this topic during #IndyFest - said he wants schools to re-open before brothels can re-open
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sisola…

Storey County Commissioner / brothel owner Lance Gilman also testifying during public comment, asking COVID Task Force to allow county to re-open his brothel, the Mustang Ranch

Gilman says the Mustang Ranch has developed a "significant mitigation and enforcement plan" that it has submitted to the state, but hasn't received any feedback on the plan since submitting it to the state

Chicken Ranch brothel general manager Trudy Kevoian says workers were not prepared to stay out of work for 8/9 months.
"We are probably more sanitized than any other place that is currently open."

Now, general manager of Dino's Lounge Kristin Bartolo says the AG's office informed her business that it can not operate private karaoke rooms, despite having plexiglass in front of stage and sanitizing microphones

Breakdown of how schools are treating re-opening:
Five are primarily in-person (Eureka, Esmerelda, Lincoln, Pershing White Pine)
Two primarily distance learning (Clark, Elko)
Other 10 are using hybrid models

State Biostatisician Kyra Morgan says state's 7-day moving average of COVID test positivity has started to increase since mid September. State raised capacity limits on events in late September

These are the proposed changes to NV's county-level COVID criteria - raising level of test positivity threshold from 7 to 8%, and lowering testing volume threshold down from 150 to 100 per day (per 100K residents)

Washoe and Humboldt County are the 2 counties in the state flagged for elevated COVID transmission. Even with new criteria, both counties would meet elevated threshold.

Nevada contract tracing update - about 21K cases found through contract tracing efforts, which is about 1/4 of total cases reported through pandemic

Washoe County Health Officer Kevin Dick says county's spike in cases started before opening of bars, and "we haven't really seen anything we can attribute to the bars reopening." Says about 1/4 of new cases are 18-24, and spike may be cases stemming from Labor Day gatherings

Dick says he's fully supportive of @Pres_Sandoval's decision to close UNR's fitness center, not allow fans at opening Wolf Pack football game & promotion of COVID Trace app

Dick also adds that the county has received several applications for large events/gatherings, but county is "backlogged" with disease investigation efforts and will likely release more info later today