Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, for example, all having learned to take the virus seriously during the initial outbreak, might have sterilized the casino experience enough to avoid becoming hubs of infection.īut on the other end of the spectrum sits Nevada, and specifically Las Vegas, and more specifically the tourist-driven mega-casinos on the Vegas Strip. In some states where strict health and safety protocols have been followed, and where visitation from out of state is being monitored to some degree, the operators might have a fighting chance. Now it’s time, unfortunately, for the second wave of casino closures to begin. Properties across the country shut down - some voluntarily, most by order of their state governments - in the second half of March and have reopened region by region in May, June, and early July, with 831 of 989 casinos welcoming customers at latest check. In the casino industry, a second wave is also beginning to hit.
(Unless you subscribe to the belief that what’s happening now doesn’t count as a second wave because the first wave never ended.)
The experts have been saying all along that a second wave of COVID-19 is coming, and in the United States they’re being proven right.