Nevada's COVID-19 response director, after testing positive: 'This virus is real' [View all]

A week ago, Caleb Cage, Nevada’s COVID-19 response director, came home from work fatigued. At first, he didn’t think anything of it. Who, after all, isn’t tired after work on a Friday?

But he awoke the next morning feverish, fatigued and with a cough. A headache settled in by the evening. At first he was convinced it was the lingering effects of a flu shot he had gotten earlier in the week. As a precaution, he alerted his supervisor, the governor’s chief of staff, Michelle White, of his symptoms and made an appointment to get tested at his local CVS the next day.

A quick self-swab test at the pharmacy on Sunday confirmed what he had suspected, that he had contracted the virus he was tasked with fighting.

In his role, Cage has been charged since March with helping to coordinate the state’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including chairing the state’s COVID-19 Mitigation and Management Task Force, which meets weekly to review action plans for counties at elevated risk for the spread of the virus. Now, he was confronted with the virus firsthand.

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