Public Safety
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Rates of ER visits for heat-related illness in Dallas-area kids soared between 2012 and 2023. The findings mirror global trends as temperatures, particularly in the summer, increase. -
A new Google and Muon-backed satellite wildfire detection system promises faster alerts and high-resolution fire imagery. But with false alarms already straining fire crews, its real impact may depend on trust.
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System issues were behind intermittent disruptions to Next-Generation 911 earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said in a preliminary report. A cyber attack is not believed to be behind it.
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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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Though ready at a moment’s notice to administer shots for senior centers and homeowners’ associations, the city has received no vaccine since an initial delivery of 150 doses for first responders on Dec. 29.
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This destruction of the social part of kids’ lives is having a multitude of consequences, and Portland doctors are concerned about trends toward unhealthy coping mechanisms they are seeing in young patients.
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Of the more than 6 million people in the U.S. who have received COVID-19 vaccines, at least 29 have suffered anaphylaxis, a severe and dangerous reaction that can constrict airways and send the body into shock.
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In operation since 1992, Salam International's business is death. Its 337-page catalog lists everything from autopsy tables to cadaver lifts to three-body refrigerators to an economy embalming station on sale for $3,500.
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“These men and women put their lives on the line regularly, back before we had COVID-19, and for the last 10 months, they kept on working the front lines, protecting and caring for residents across Massachusetts.”
