Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
City Council is considering two options that would charge for paramedic care provided by the Monterey Fire Department when ambulance transport is needed. Some are concerned it would discourage people from calling 911.
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Gov. Bob Ferguson said he would request an expedited emergency declaration from the federal government, seeking to unlock federal resources and financial support, as flooding continues in Western Washington this week.
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The plan includes the “safe shutdown of operating units on site” and evacuation of all but essential staff, according to Dow chemical company officials, who announced the move at 12:23 a.m. Wednesday, May 20.
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State health officials have launched an unprecedented effort to train thousands of front-line, county-level workers to act as a firewall to stop the coronavirus from roaring back this fall.
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“… we are in good hands with the teams at PEMA and the National Guard. The training and planning that they do year-round is tested during exercises, and all of that experience is being acted upon now.”
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According to the emails, department staff gave the order shortly after reporters requested the same data from the agency on May 5. The data manager, Rebekah Jones, complied with the order, but not before she told her supervisors it was the “wrong call.”
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He encountered “a nightmare” and “war-like conditions" at the Bedford–Stuyvesant hospital. The staff was overwhelmed. Resources were inadequate. People were dying despite life-support measures, only to be replaced by a flood of new desperate patients.
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Arthur, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, is located about 135 miles south of Morehead City as of 5 a.m. Monday and is moving northeast, according to the National Weather Service.
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Washington state has ordered $227.5 million worth of supplies — mostly masks — from a subsidiary of China’s BYD Co., accounting for more than half the value of all the state’s orders for COVID-19 supplies.
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In addition to the vegetation growth followed by periods of significant dry/low relative humidity, Texas fire crews will be busy with both wildfires and flooding in some regions as the tropical storm season also approaches.
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The Montgomery County, Texas, Hospital District deployed a system to collect and analyze information in near real time, allowing infectious disease specialists and other officials to make critical, informed decisions.
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These women are among the 300 medical staffers in the Tactical Care Unit -- home to Parkland Memorial Hospital’s coronavirus patients -- who are making enormous personal sacrifices to do jobs that most of us wouldn’t.
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“We are still evaluating the information about inaccurate results and are in direct communications with Abbott about this important issue,” said Dr. Tim Stenzel of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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Public safety answering point personnel already have a stressful job, plagued with understaffing.The coronavirus pandemic has added another layer of stress, as two National Emergency Number Association surveys indicate.
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Because of the short national supply, body bags are sometimes reused two or three times. Sometimes when a body bag is unavailable, the deceased person is wrapped in sheets and a mask is placed on the face.
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Residents will qualify for a test if they’ve had recent contact with a person diagnosed with the virus or if they have at least one symptom of COVID-19: a temperature of 99.6 degrees or higher, cough or shortness of breath.
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By Wednesday morning, 51 hospitals across the state received the medication. Hospitals in the first shipment were selected based on the number and severity of their coronavirus patients over a recent seven-day period.
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“I know that Iowans and businesses are eager to know what’s next, but as I’ve said all along, these decisions must be made carefully and backed by data. I look forward to providing that update tomorrow,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said.
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A daily report from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said 68% of critical care beds, or 2,013, were in use Tuesday afternoon. Nearly the same percentage, 66%, of general inpatient beds were in use.
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This latest evacuation comes as six more residents died in recent days, according to reports from the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office. That’s a total of 30 residents and one employee who have died from COVID-19.
