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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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The governor’s involvement in connecting his cousin with state buyers is just one example of how the coronavirus pandemic has upended the normal workings of government. Facing a dire shortage of life-saving medical supplies, Washington state has loosened contracting rules.
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In recent weeks, the facilities have emerged as a hotspot for COVID-19 deaths, with one Pinellas home having to be evacuated. As of Wednesday, 577 long-term care residents and staffers had died from the virus, roughly one third of Florida’s total deaths.
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Alabama’s COVID-19 Unified Command is a collection of resources including the Alabama National Guard and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency to support the Alabama Department of Public Health in fighting the virus.
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The job of contact tracer includes helping coronavirus patients figure out specific strategies to keep from infecting others and keeping tabs on household members and other close contacts to see if they get sick.
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The Food and Drug Administration said this month that "the question of when we can return to work and resume our normal activities is one of the most critical issues facing our nation."
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After the CDC warned the state’s top public safety official about the manufacturer’s concern that its products were “being counterfeited,” he issued a report to first responders asserting the masks are “authentic.”
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In a written statement, Allina Health officials said all health-care systems are managing limited supplies against the pandemic. Its practices are aligned with other local hospitals preparing for a patient surge.
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As local economies begin to reopen and more people go back to work, they may be at higher risk of falling ill. The evidence indicates that low-wage workers who can’t work from home have been at particular risk.
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Compared with homes reporting no patient infections, California facilities with one or more patients with a COVID-19 case had on average 25% fewer registered nurses per resident in the final three months of 2019.
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Dispatchers for the city’s 311 call line have reported that some pet owners have refused to release their animals to first responders when they had to seek treatment for the virus and wouldn’t be home for some time.
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The staff barely spoke as they tended to the patient, who contracted the virus while on dialysis and living in a nursing home. When they did talk, they raised their voices above echoes of their masks, face shields and hoods.
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Expert infection prevention specialists say that gathering the best available evidence, often from other virus outbreaks, and applying it to the coronavirus results in today’s guidelines for mitigating spread of the disease.
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Jury trials in Dodge County Circuit Court are suspended until late May, with the current health order from Gov. Tony Evers set to expire May 26. Several jury trials are on the calendar after that point, and possible jurors will have to come into the courthouse for service.
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CDC data shows that the 15% of people that live in rural areas have higher rates of preventable death from heart disease, stroke and other ailments, as well as higher rates of underlying conditions like smoking and obesity.
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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.
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Two county DAs and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli are coordinating with other law enforcement officials to protect the public from Internet scammers who are using COVID-19 to rip off unsuspecting people.
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Each patient’s room contains equipment that never leaves that room, to reduce the danger of nurses carrying the virus from a room and potentially into another, in addition to “washing their hands continuously.”
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The pandemic sheds light on the disproportionately high death rate among blacks. In Detroit, nearly 80 percent of the population is black, but the city has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths: 922 deaths.
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