The opening of the site at the temporarily closed hotel-casino comes at a time when coronavirus cases are surging in Clark County, Nevada and across the country. The difference in accuracy between the swabbing methods is “not clinically significant,” county spokeswoman Stacey Welling said. The other two sites, at Cashman Center downtown and UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center, are indoor, walk-up sites where medical personnel will instruct up to three people at a time how to do their own nasal swabs. Drive-thru, throat-swab testing administered by medical personnel is now being offered at Texas Station, the third public mass testing site in the Las Vegas Valley.

(Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) a free COVID-19 test but don’t want to stick a swab up your nose? Members of the Nevada National Guard gather during a preview of a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Texas Station in North Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov.