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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 Ohio Department of Health announced that the number of confirmed cases had surpassed the 100 mark: 119 people in Ohio now have COVID-19. This is vastly up from Wednesday, when 88 people were confirmed. Thirty-three people are hospitalized, up from 26 on Wednesday.
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In Massachusetts, there could be as many as 100,600 people with severe or critical symptoms, including nearly 23,000 people who are 60 or older, according to estimated infection rates by USA TODAY.
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“The president holds the key to the lock where all the money is,” said a Democratic strategist. “It makes no sense to be at loggerheads with the keeper of the purse, and there are times when it’s just smart to put politics aside.”
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The first surge might not overwhelm hospital beds, emergency rooms and intensive care units. But with the experience of Italian hospitals as a telling recent precedent, some are bracing for a second surge.
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It’s a situation that has played out in Italy, where hospitals were overrun by a surge of coronavirus patients. Ventilators soon had to be rationed, forcing difficult decisions by doctors and hospitals.
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“This has been on our mind since at least 2003,” said Stephen Cobb, VP for Centura Health’s Denver Metro Group, who is helping to manage the response at Longmont United Hospital and Louisville’s Avista Adventist Hospital.
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Having a huge number of people get sick at once would stress the resources of the health-care system nationwide, as we’ve seen in some other countries, said one health professional. We must allow resources to catch up.
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The state announced the case total had risen to 192, including 173 Floridians, and that a sixth person had died at a Broward County assisted living facility. A full breakdown of new cases wasn’t immediately available.
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“You saw all the people partying this weekend for St. Patrick’s Day,” said the director of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “I’m happy for them but I’m very sorry for us.”
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"We are at a critical inflection point in this country, people. …," U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told Fox News. "When you look at the projections, there's every chance that we could be Italy."
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Hospitals are using “conservation techniques” based on guidance from the CDC and the state health department, said the vice president of emergency management at the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.
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If the spread of coronavirus turns out to fall short of the worst-case scenarios we’re hearing now — and let’s hope it does — it’s easy to envision such regrets. People are bound to ask whether government overreacted.
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“The last thing we want [hospitals] worrying about is having enough blood for trauma victims and cancer patients. That’s why it’s imperative that healthy individuals donate blood at drives and blood donation sites now.”
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The district will only close schools if an outbreak directly affects a school, a spokesman said. Local health officials' recommendations for the scope and duration of school closures will be made case by case.
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As the novel coronavirus continues to infect people across the U.S., this Kirkland, Wash., hospital’s response offers lessons for other areas bracing for an outbreak that could overwhelm the nation’s health-care system.
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The task force will consist of representatives from law enforcement, EMS, Madison County Emergency Management, local hospitals, businesses and elected officials. The H1N1 virus outbreak took place in the county in 2009.
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Nationwide, especially in hardest-hit areas, companies are implementing policies to address employee concerns about exposure and offer options in case the crisis worsens. The number of U.S. cases topped 700 this week.
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In Northern California, potential exposure to the new coronavirus was exacerbated because hospitals were surprised by the community spread of the virus and hampered by the initial federal protocols on diagnostic testing.
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