Small businesses join governor to push for additional relief
By SAM METZJanuary 27, 2021 GMT
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Walter Gloshinski, who owns Smiling with Hope Pizza in Reno, Nevada, believes the pandemic has forced workers to make impossible choices.
“I see so many businesses like small restaurants and their employees are making $10-an-hour. They’re ‘get-by people.’ They come to work sick and don’t say anything because they have needs and you can’t blame them,” he said Tuesday, speaking alongside other small business owners and state officials during a virtual roundtable on pandemic issues.
Gloshinski and his wife have a background in special education, and three members of their nine-person staff have cognitive disabilities that make finding a job difficult, he said. He decided to close his restaurant amid a Reno-area surge and said uncertainty surrounding vaccines makes it difficult to plan for the future.
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Washoe County Reports 24 COVID-19-Related Deaths Since Start Of New Year
There have been two dozen COVID-19 deaths in Washoe County in just the first five days of the new year so far. More than 500 lives have been lost since the start of the pandemic in Washoe County, and more than 3,200 statewide.
Over the last two weeks, there have been an average of 1,600 new daily cases in Nevada and the test positivity rate remains high - at around 20% - and has for about a month.
There are nearly 1,900 patients hospitalized for confirmed or suspected COVID-19 in Nevada and 79% of staffed hospital beds are occupied.