To reopen, Las Vegas needed test kits. It got a hand from the UAE

The World

Like many states in the US, Nevada was struggling to test residents when the Coronavirus pandemic hit. Eventually, help did arrive…from an unlikely place — an AI company in the United Arab Emirates. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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