Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
City Council is considering two options that would charge for paramedic care provided by the Monterey Fire Department when ambulance transport is needed. Some are concerned it would discourage people from calling 911.
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Gov. Bob Ferguson said he would request an expedited emergency declaration from the federal government, seeking to unlock federal resources and financial support, as flooding continues in Western Washington this week.
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"While the COVID-19 public health crisis is unprecedented, Florida has a strong foundation of emergency preparedness built on government collaboration at all levels," said agency Secretary Mary Mayhew.
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There are now 686 cases in the Lehigh Valley, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Lehigh and Northampton counties combined on Wednesday saw a one-day increase in coronavirus cases of more than 32%.
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Forecasting the coronavirus spread is a bit like predicting the weather, said Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington who studies the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases.
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Court filings, interviews and social media postings detail a tense environment — one in which close quarters makes social distancing all but impossible, and with daily contact between worried inmates and guards.
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A spokeswoman for the Colorado Hospital Association said the state’s medical network is currently “not anywhere near capacity” but the growing numbers of coronavirus cases in the state could quickly change that situation.
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Several metro hospitals were planning major expansions to handle spiking patient loads, while rural hospitals continued to struggle treating uninsured patients amid the closure of seven rural hospitals in recent years.
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On duty, he wore a surgical gown above his clothes, along with latex gloves and an N95 respirator — the kind that is increasingly precious in a state closing in on 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, most in metro NYC.
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They’re using a laser cutter to make about 80 disposable face shields per day at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering machine shop on NC State’s Centennial Campus. They anticipate manufacturing 5,000 face shields over the next 30 to 60 days,
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In the past four days, the number of intensive care patients in the state has tripled — from 200 to 597 — and the number of hospitalizations has nearly doubled, from 746 to 1,432. By Tuesday morning, the number of confirmed cases has climbed to more than 7,400 and deaths to 149.
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Local skilled-nursing and long-term care facilities that have health care providers on staff can help order tests for residents who need them, but facilities that do not are largely relying on their residents’ ability to get tested through their own health care providers.
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There are roughly 5,350 available beds without expanding capacity in the St. Louis hospital referral region, the health care market that includes the metro-east and much of southeastern Missouri down to the Arkansas border.
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The state Department of Health (DOH) survey, covering the seven-day period that ended Saturday, tallied 193 admissions of patients with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath, down from 251 the previous week.
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Jared Moskowitz, director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, called the market for the masks to a “Ponzi scheme," plagued with layers of distributors and a bidding war caused by states jockeying for supplies.
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Hospitals have a standard of cleanliness they have to keep up. EMS personnel are going into people’s homes, where potentially, a patient with the coronavirus has been cooped up for days without that standard of cleanliness.
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“This is a public health emergency that is unfortunately causing a social emergency, and the only way that the public health emergency and the social emergency can be addressed is by us working collectively through this kind of structure.
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Prisoners, their families and Michigan Department of Corrections employees share concerns about the novel coronavirus as the number of cases among prisoners and staff continues to climb. The department said 58 prisoners at eight facilities and one parolee have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Sunday.
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Despite the opening of testing sites across the state, New Jersey residents say there has been a confounding lack of coronavirus testing in hospitals, doctors’ offices, urgent care centers and FEMA sites. Even when people exhibited clear symptoms of COVID-19, they still were denied tests.
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Since the first positive test of coronavirus in King County, Wash., the Seattle Fire Department has been developing best practices, including information sharing and how to slow the burn rate of personal protective equipment.
