The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washoe County, Nevada (Washoe County Health District) · Las Vegas and Reno · Nevada
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Governor's Directive 033 (Sept. 30, 2020) section requiring local health authority review and confirmation of Large Gathering plans; NRS 439 (district health officer's duties 'under State statute')
- Issued
- 2020-10-08 Oct. 8, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-08
- End
- Thirty days (to about Nov. 7, 2020), then overtaken by the 50-person cap of Nov. 5, 2020 (MET-LAS-033) (read as 2020-11-07)
- In force
- Oct. 8, 2020 to Nov. 7, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capEvents and venues
- Addressees
- organizers of gatherings and events above 250 persons in Washoe County (venues, conventions, sports, worship, festivals)
- Functions reached
- GATH/EVT every event above 250 (Reno Events Center, Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Nevada Wolf Pack, Hot August Nights-type events)
- MC meetings and conventions
- WS large worship gatherings
- Collection
- Las Vegas and Reno MET-LAS
Operative words
The Washoe County Health District will not allow large gatherings or events with more than 250 people in Washoe County for 30 days due to the lack of adequate health infrastructure as a result of elevated community-wide COVID-19 disease transmission. The Health District lacks capacity to review COVID-19 Large Gathering Safety & Preparedness Plans per the Governor's Directive 033 as well as maintain rapid COVID-19 disease investigation and contact tracing. All public gatherings of up to 250 people remain allowable under directive 033.... 'I cannot in good conscience allow gatherings of more than 250 to take place until we have been able to assess how the newly-allowed gatherings of up to 250 people affect disease transmission rates and contact tracing efforts in Washoe County,' District Health Officer Kevin Dick said.... Pursuant to Governor's Directive 033, plans for large gatherings and events must be reviewed by the local health authority for confirmation that they comply with all applicable health and safety standards and will not place an unacceptable burden on the local health infrastructure.
Enforcement
Withholding of the local health authority approval that Directive 033 made a condition of any gathering above 250
Notes
A county health officer exercising an express veto that the State directive gave him; the county was 'one of only two counties flagged for elevated disease transmission in Nevada'
Retrieval noteRelease text read in full (the Health District's own statement of its determination).