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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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Erie County is not alone it its struggles. With most protective health equipment produced overseas and U.S. manufacturers unable to meet overwhelming demand, the competition among local governments stateside is immense.
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Poison control officials in Kansas have marked a 40% increase in the ingestion of toxic chemicals following remarks made by President Trump, who seemed to suggest COVID-19 could be treated by injecting disinfectant.
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Vancouver’s Fire Department has tested three firefighters for COVID-19, one of whom was positive. Firefighters are taking the crisis seriously, which has reduced the risk of getting sick, despite their line of work.
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“We had isolation gowns on the way to San Francisco and then diverted to France,” said Mayor London Breed. Another order of equipment went through customs and then was “confiscated” by FEMA for other places.
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The governor contrasted the state and Northeast’s ongoing battle with conditions in some other states, particularly across the South, where governors have started to relax stay-at-home advisories.
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Local officials already are talking through possible issues. A COVID-19 task force in Virginia Beach is coordinating with regional partners in Norfolk and Chesapeake on how the virus could impact temporary shelters in a storm event.
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Medical professionals, as well as police officers, firefighters and paramedics, had to adjust the way they carry out everyday tasks with limited information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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Former high-level public safety officials who took part in a webinar discussed the failures during the initial response of the coronavirus and the importance of correcting those errors during the summer.
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For weeks, emergency medical services personnel have been taking extra precautions to protect themselves, health care workers and the public from the potential spread of COVID-19. For ambulance services it’s meant a new way of doing things.
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A worst-case scenario would be reopening the counties too quickly and undoing all the progress made during weeks of social distancing. Officials want to see more testing in Wyoming County before decisions to ease restrictions are made.
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Rural areas aren’t immune to the coronavirus and have characteristics that can make them more vulnerable and make the disease deadlier than in bigger cities, including the nature of work and fewer medical resources.
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That new data includes 270 of the 275 institutional settings have at least one case of COVID-19. The county said it was investigating 3,115 cases — 1,826 among residents and 1,289 among staff.
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FEMA’s guide to the alert system says calls aren’t supposed to drop when alerts arrive. But several residents on April 6 posted complaints about losing calls because of alerts tied to the county’s “Safer at Home” campaign.
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The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency sends the requests for supplies to headquarters and the missions are sent to the 1058th the night before.
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“Any death is a tragedy, and we must continue our efforts to do all we can to try and flatten the curve of COVID-19 in Prisons,” Todd Ishee, commissioner of prisons, said in a news release. “The health and safety of the staff and the men and women in our custody is of paramount importance.”
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Council members say the fire department was “over responding” by sending the rescue truck on all calls when only ambulances respond on calls in other municipalities and aren’t joined by their fire departments.
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The strategies included: the closing of the fire stations to the public; and the “increased cleaning” of fire stations and apparatus including the use of atomization guns from the school custodians for sterilization.
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Overall, ER admissions have dropped at many hospitals, which could be due to many factors, namely that stay-at-home orders prevent people from participating in the types of activities that land them in the hospital.
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