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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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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.
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Since wildfire smoke steadily impairs a firefighter’s immune system, and traditional base camps can magnify infection risk, officials urge a blitzkrieg approach to wildfires that relies heavily on aircraft use.
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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.
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“I didn’t think I would be on the front lines of COVID-19 at all. I thought it would work its way around us and hit … major metropolitan or urban areas, but not here in Somerset County with a population of 77,000 people.”
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Modern 911 dispatch centers are relying on new technologies to bridge the information gaps typical of landline telephone calls. Now, dispatchers and first responders are pulling data with new tools to improve public safety.
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More disturbing, say health-care advocates, is the growing number of accounts from families who say long-term care facilities across the state are administering the experimental treatment without legally required consent.
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For Floridians, flood insurance is worth considering. The average flood insurance premium in the state is less than $500 a year, but the cost of flood damage can be dangerously high without it.
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Aligning EOC activation, shelter-in-place policies and other emergency management functions with requirements forced by the coronavirus spread has made Galveston emergency management rework its response protocol.
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As the coronavirus tears through the state’s long-term care system, 4,015 nursing home and assisted living residents have been infected and more than 630 have died. But front-line caregivers are also getting battered.
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Miami’s City Council made the decision during their May 5 meeting. City Attorney Ben Loring said the House of Representatives extended the governor's emergency powers for 30 days and the Senate will likely do the same.
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The Strategic National Stockpile was born out of bioterrorism fears and initially included supplies to respond to such an event but evolved to include supplies for other disasters like floods, tornadoes and pandemics.
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States have adopted their own standards with mixed results, according to interviews with long-term care officials, patients' families, health-care advocates and government officials, and from a look at state’s records.
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