Preparedness and Communications

The county reported a record one-day total of 102 confirmed cases Sunday, pushing the total count to 1,212. The county surpassed 900 cases only a week ago. The death toll on Sunday remained at 34. During a five-day span in the past week, the county averaged 41 new cases per day.

State General Healthcare Resources will deploy onsite assessment teams to assist with infection control practices, provide emergency staffing for overwhelmed care centers and training on personal protective equipment.

Samples from donations will be sent to a laboratory where they will also undergo routine infectious disease testing. Test results will be available with seven to 10 days from the Red Cross website or Blood Donor app.

Lauraleigh Avery grew up with a fire department, then became a firefighter, then assistant fire chief. She’s now been named the first firefighter and woman to lead the Orange County, Fla., EOC as county emergency manager.

In the wake of the recent events, Airdata UAV now offers law enforcement agencies around the US immediate, free, and unlimited trial access to live streaming of their drone video feeds.

Florida’s Division of Emergency Management says it will be providing staffing and personal protective equipment at each site. The other two walk-up Home Depot testing locations have not been announced yet.

Years of research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have produced an airborne substance that can eradicate harmful microorganisms, including COVID-19.

Bertha is the second named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which does not officially begin until June 1. Tropical Storm Arthur formed off the coast of Florida 10 days ago.

A viral Facebook post falsely claiming new federal legislation would allow the government to forcibly remove people from their homes is an example of one of the many messaging challenges facing contact tracers.

We’re not going to eliminate risk, we can never eliminate risk,” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said as he wore a face mask for his tour of Alliance Airport. “How do we buy that risk down?

The season began early this year, as Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the season last week when it was upgraded from a tropical depression before bringing rain and high winds to North Carolina’s coast.

Whether located in large urban centers or rural communities, 911 agencies nationwide face the same obstacles.

While Latinos make up just less than a third of the county’s population, they represent half of positive coronavirus tests at Northeast Georgia Health Systems and 44% of coronavirus positive admitted patients.

Donated gloves, face shields and masks will be used in the Florida county’s local hospitals, nursing centers, assisted-living facilities or other sites needing to protect people dealing with COVID-19.

Nationwide, contact tracing is the key to reopening businesses and resuming some form of normal life as the coronavirus pandemic begins to subside, epidemiologists say. But no federal plan or funding is on the horizon.