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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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Along with the viral pandemic, people are facing what the World Health Organization called an “infodemic” — a deluge of information, some of it nonsense. That’s an ideal environment for scammers who exploit fears and needs.
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Two Detroit police employees, a captain and a civilian dispatcher, died this week of COVID-19 virus-related illnesses. As of Tuesday, more than 250 officers were quarantined, Detroit police chief James Craig said.
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"The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a devastating effect on the state of Missouri, straining hospitals, healthcare facilities and nursing homes, businesses large and small, schools, and tens of thousands of Missourians who have been forced out of jobs.”
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The information in a Department of Health report is part of increased effort by the state amid concerns that patients suffering from COVID-19 could eventually overwhelm some hospitals later this spring.
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Businesses and organizations that violate the order face possible criminal penalties under the state administrative code and/or the 1955 disease prevention and control law. Both violations carry fines and potential jail time.
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Hospital officials say it’s a matter of saving a limited resource until it’s definitely necessary. They are begging for more masks, gloves and gowns, and will take anything — even opened boxes of masks. They do not have enough to handle the projected surge.
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The scramble to secure masks, gowns, goggles, respirators and other equipment considered absolute necessities to treat patients stricken with the novel coronavirus that originated in China has even led Alabama to, well, China.
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In a letter, Gov. Ron DeSantis asks the Trump administration to send the state funds to help with unemployment, crisis counseling, community-disaster loans, and food aid, which DeSantis says the state will need.
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Any of a wide range of underlying health conditions – such as metastasized cancer, AIDS, “severe mental retardation,” advanced dementia and “severe burns” – could disqualify patients from being put on potentially lifesaving ventilators.
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Governors’ actions have transcended party. Republicans like Charlie Baker in Massachusetts and Larry Hogan in Maryland, as well as Democrats like Andrew Cuomo in New York and Gavin Newsom in California, have taken the lead.
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Several small distilleries have joined in an effort coordinated through Centerstate CEO, the local economic development agency. It will get their hand sanitizers to emergency personnel, hospitals and law enforcement.
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Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz told the lawmakers that Gov. DeSantis is watching what other states are doing and "looking at all the different options," including a stay-at-home order.
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Since Monday, law enforcement, emergency management, EMS and fire departments have been in briefings about what they can do to not protect only the community from COVID-19, but also themselves.
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Telemedicine, which allows doctors to consult with patients remotely, has emerged as a vital way to cope with the growing surge in demand for medical services — and to keep health workers safer.
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"What we're doing here today and through this process, however long it goes, is working toward informing the federal government and other local jurisdictions on how this is going to work going forward."
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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, like other state correctional institutions, has undergone ‘unprecedented changes’ to protect its staff and inmates from contracting spreading the coronavirus.
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Across rural areas, local officials and health departments have spent recent days developing and implementing strategies to contain COVID-19, which has largely been concentrated in and around Lexington and Louisville.
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Law-enforcement agencies in Franklin County, and throughout the state of Ohio are being advised by courts and prosecutors to arrest only those who pose a threat to society and to issue summonses for non-violent offenses.
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