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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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"Florida is unlike any other state …," said the state Chamber of Commerce president. "Reopening Florida's economy needs to be surgical." The caution comes amid growing demands to return Floridians to their workplaces.
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Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia deployed the LiveProcess Emergency Manager software two weeks before the coronavirus hit the region and began managing the virus via the system immediately.
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“In the 1980s, Astoria was a rough-and-tumble town. There were five bars you could go into at any time and buy any kind of dope you wanted and watch a fight in the meantime. It was a rough place. Downtown was empty. Well, dang, we may be going back to that again.”
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Gov. Whitmer’s target numbers are still short of what some experts recommend, and even reaching the goal she set may be easier said than done. Michigan already is below the national average in per-capita testing of COVID-19.
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Those eligible work in fields that include utilities, transportation, hotels, food processing, cleaning and maintenance, child care, auto repair, grocery retail, pharmacy, convenience stores and gas stations.
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"The Topeka, Shawnee County COVID-19 Response Team is very concerned about how we respond and recover. We know that our collective efforts are paying off in flattening the curve. We need that cooperation intact going forward."
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“The number 30,000 was really taking into account the duration of this and that these are volunteers and that they would not be indefinite staff," he said. “So spending a week at a facility, including working through the details of helping out in the long-term care environment was where that number came to be.”
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“You have to have uniform guidance across the country and, ideally, across the globe where you have to have coordination of supply chain, so you don’t have every state over-ordering for the worst-case scenario …”
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People infected with new coronavirus are likely emitting it for nearly 2.5 days before the first symptoms appear, scientists said. The contagion of an infected person peaks roughly 18 hours before the first symptom.
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The Detroit Medical Center announced it will furlough 480 employees, while the McLaren Medical Group will cut the hours of many of its 500 doctors, physician's assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives.
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Gov. McMaster signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in response to the damage wrought by heavy winds and a series of tornadoes early on Monday. The order allows the state to redirect resources to deal with the aftermath of the deadly storm, which killed nine.
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But the death toll in South Florida continues to rise. Since Tuesday morning, there’s been an increase of 47 deaths from COVID-19 in the counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, says the state health department.
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Coroners in four South Mississippi counties say they have tried but failed to acquire COVID-19 test kits from the state. One of those coroners believes he might have handled four coronavirus cases that have not been counted for as deaths caused by the virus.
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Under normal circumstances, prescribed burns in lower-elevation mountainous areas near Yakima, Wash., and elsewhere would be underway or planned. Prescribed burns are intentionally set fires in designated locations.
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If they are exposed to someone with COVID-19, they could lose income from their full-time jobs by being quarantined. And if they contract the virus while providing medical care, they may not have health insurance to pay for their own treatment.
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Dr. Daniel Varga has watched many of his health-care workers at his hospital contract the coronavirus as the pandemic rages across New Jersey. It has led to manpower shortages when hospitals and patients can least afford them.
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At least one person died, as the Oconee County coroner reported. Both severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings were issued for the Midlands, the National Weather Service office in Columbia said.
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Overseeing that process in Clark and Floyd counties in Indiana are the emergency management agencies [EMA]. Each county’s EMA has set up emergency operations centers, where representatives from multiple organizations coordinate response efforts.
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