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A new aircraft there has room for one person, can land on water, is equipped with a parachute, and can fly at night, costing less than a helicopter as well as needing less time to get airborne.
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Drones as first responders is a growing program in police departments across the country, and Virginia Beach will soon be the first city in its region to use the technology.
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Dr. Steven Lawrence, Washington University infectious disease expert, said the vaccine rollout has been a remarkable achievement, but “we need more. … We need speed. We need as much as we can to really end the pandemic."
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Patients would arrive typically short of breath and often fearful for their lives. For days or weeks, their only companions were nurses and the faces of loved ones on a screen. Some said their final goodbyes that way.
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Allentown, Pa., schools are still distance learning, but when students and staff return to classrooms, they will be protected by a new technology that helps filtration systems capture viruses and render them inactive.
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Local health-care leaders had warned of a racial gap in the early days of Miami-Dade's vaccination effort. Jackson CEO Carlos Migoya told county commissioners last week that the system was not working Black communities.
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Biden will sign an executive order directing agencies to use the Defense Production Act and "all appropriate authorities" to ramp up the manufacturing and delivery of supplies needed for COVID-19 response.
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The Type 1 incident management team will serve Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania counties, establishing multiple vaccination sites. Those will include some mobile sites that can provide vaccination at high-risk workplaces.
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The delay meant that pharmacies, doctors' offices and hospitals were responsible for setting up their own systems: to register patients, schedule appointments, gain consent and report vaccinations to the state.
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"Our philosophy is that if you are going to kick the can down the road it will end up costing more in the end," said Jan Kowalski, the township's finance director. "So we try to avoid doing that with anything infrastructure related because those problems are only going to get worse."
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The fire department will deactivate three engines for six days at a time over the next five months, effectively closing three of the city's 25 stations. The only station not affected is at Oakland International Airport.
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"If we receive 10 doses, we would look at our list and administer those as quickly as possible. It is on a first-come, first-serve basis, but we are going by our priority list to ensure those who need it the most have access first."
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The first phase included health-care workers and nursing home residents. Currently, those in Phase 1B are able to be vaccinated, including those 65 and older and those 16 and older with a chronic medical condition.
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The money for pandemic budget items includes $54.5 million in general funds, $35.5 million in federal funds and $5 million from the Community Health Trust Fund, funded through a legal settlement with tobacco companies.
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“You have to pull up the vaccine, thaw it, [input] people’s information, then have people sit for 15 minutes after to ensure there are no side effects. That all takes time unless you have significant manpower.”
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In the battle against COVID, officials in Northern California face a daunting task of vaccinating more than 683,300 people in a mountainous, heavily forested region where the nearest medical facility can be hours away.
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Administrators are working to eliminate the uncertainty that COVID-19 brought in 2020 and focus more on the social effects of the pandemic as students and staff return to campus for the spring term.
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Deanne Criswell became the New York City’s first female emergency management commissioner in 2019 after spending five years at the Federal Emergency Management Agency during President Obama’s administration.
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In her recent book, Gates discusses how women are often doubling up on paid and unpaid labor, and work environments are often unsupportive of working parents, which has been exacerbated as the pandemic has progressed.
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The company is also having response-time issues because of quarantines due to positive coronavirus tests and COVID-19 exposure among its employees. The service has had as few as three ambulances available at times because of the impact on employee availability.
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