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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 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.
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Two major Central Florida rescue agencies, the Orlando Fire Department and Orange County Fire Rescue, confirmed they’re only ordering tests for employees who show signs of infection, even if the person believes they may have been exposed to the virus.
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City Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Coordinator Jeremy Searfoss has been working with his team to fine tune the city’s emergency action plan, preparing for an increase in emergency calls and setting protocols for first responders.
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The Waffle House Index is an unofficial metric typically used by FEMA to determine the effect of a storm and the amount of assistance needed for disaster recovery. On Wednesday, it entered Code Red according to the 24-hour restaurant chain.
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As COVID-19 spreads across the world, a new virus is brewing and spreading like wildfire. From miraculous cures to paranoid conspiracies, misinformation about the coronavirus has been going viral at a disturbing rate.
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The San Jose Police Department, along with other local police departments, is on the front lines helping to keep the community safe against the coronavirus, while keeping officers and other department members healthy.
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Fort Worth Emergency management staff have found a gap sometimes exists between when a person with an infection is identified and when the county health authority is able to obtain the quarantine mandate, called a control order.
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The federal government should have provided some kind of safety net but provided little to nothing at all. It seemed that if there was any purpose at all for FEMA it was to be a significant source of financial support.
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For about two weeks, journalists and elder advocates have pressed state leaders for information about where long-term care residents and staff have been exposed to the extremely contagious infection.
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“Now is the time to take decisive action to limit the spread and preserve our precious resources to fight this pandemic. If action is delayed, we fear we will not be able to handle the surge in the health care needs.”
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Medical emergency calls are up 40 percent to about 6,500 a day, according to Oren Barzilay, president of Local 2507, a union that represents emergency medical technicians, paramedics, fire inspectors and dispatchers.
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Duke patients with significant symptoms of COVID-19 will be given the option to participate in the trial, which will begin immediately and be limited to adults.The treatment, known as remdesivir, is an antiviral agent previously tested in humans with Ebola virus disease.
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