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The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week. -
By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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Video conferencing may have come into prominence during the coronavirus pandemic as part of the effort to stay connected. But instead of the virtual online spaces, some central Ohioans are instead taking to the airwaves.
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Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the health department had one full-time and one part-time communicable disease nurse dedicated to contact tracing. Two more nurses now help follow up with confirmed cases reported to the agency.
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“We anticipated that social distancing would allow health systems time to get space, staff, and supplies in place in order to be better prepared for higher volumes — but that the volumes would still increase, ideally at a slower and more manageable pace.
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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.
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There have been 1.5 million recorded coronavirus cases in the United States and more than 93,800 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to John Hopkins University.
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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?
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As the United States begins to reopen after the coronavirus shutdown, the country must do so on different timelines and different protocols and best practices to ensure the protection of workers and citizens.
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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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