, a move that puts the city one step closer to reopening its economy. And it might not have been possible without the donation of more than 200,000 test kits, worth as much as $20 million, from the United Arab Emirates.
But the intervention that changed the state’s fortunes was a large donation from Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and ruler of the United Arab Emirates, according to members of Nevada’s COVID-19 Response, Relief and Recovery Task Force, a group of business leaders supporting the state’s recovery.
In mid-April, Prince Mohammed, or MbZ, as he’s commonly known, gave the state more than 200,000 test kits, with the aim of easing shortages and accelerating Nevada’s timeline for reopening its economy.“Without the connection with the U.A.E., we might be in a different place,” Murren said. “It really gave University Medical Center a real shot in the arm.”In addition to offering humanitarian relief, the United Arab Emirates has a financial interest in seeing Vegas come back to life.
For Murren and others on the task force, the United Arab Emirates’ gift is a sign of the relationships Vegas business leaders have cultivated overseas. But public health experts, who praised the donation, said it was also an indictment of the U.S. government’s halting response.have hamstrung states’ efforts to understand how extensively the virus has spread and to make decisions about opening up again.
LasVegasLocally you read this yet? Whoa.
love too depend on the whims of the obscenely wealthy for functional public policy
What is the catch
Payoff for Trumpy.
What a disgrace. We can't take care of our own because we have a psychopath for a president, so it's gotta be a Saudi with money and a penchant for gambling and shows. Let's see if the prince can spare a few hundred million more tests, since Trump is incapable of it.
For all the money laundering does for Arabs it's the least they could do in return
He mistook it for an STD.
poll Nobody wants the test get over it.
Ill test the poker rooms!!! ♠️
Senility? Even though in reality Indie Pennsylvania filmmaker Lance Weiler probably jumped out a window-- probably at a party-- he will tell people he went through the windshield in a '94 head-on collision w/ a garbage truck. After he broke his jaw on the steering wheel.
That’s weird. Also embarrassing and a security risk.
Same group of ppl owned an entire floor in Mandalay Bay Hmmmmmmm
A guy who figures prominently in the Mueller report.
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