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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. -
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 Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land.
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People vaccinated in mid-January were automatically slotted into appointments for most of the city's anticipated weekly supply of doses, a prioritization that the city said complied with directives by health officials.
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Having developed a task force comprising various agencies to respond to a multitude of disasters during the last decade, the state was poised to respond to the pandemic in a coordinated fashion.
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Florida is allowing people 65 and older, healthcare workers with direct patient contact and long-term care facility residents and staff to get vaccinated. But Walmart also listed an option for Florida residents "deemed to be extremely vulnerable to COVID-19.
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Six months after an unprecedented disaster, county, city and non-government organizations in Linn County have yet to decide how they’ll ensure emergency communications get to the public should another such storm strike.
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The California Department of Public Health reported Wednesday providers have administered 5,089,484 out of about 7.6 million doses that have been distributed to hospital systems and local health offices.
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“They are very aware and experienced in vaccine administration for us to be able to maybe at one point move into vaccine administration in the schools.”
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The National Football League has said it will make all 30 of its stadiums available as vaccination sites, but spokesmen for the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati[s Bengals did not respond to requests for comment on whether they will participate.
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Looming over the response of state and local public health agencies is a question that has plagued them since the start of the pandemic — whether they will have the resources to take the measures they think are needed.
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Some Connecticut hospitals this winter are seeing a second wave of deep reluctance to get medical treatment, at least partly because concerns about the second wave of coronavirus infections. Often, it’s the patients most at risk of COVID-19 complications who are staying home too long.
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The United States needs to expand its capacity for genomic surveillance "rapidly and exponentially," said Kristian Andersen, who directs a program of infectious disease genomics at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
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"Most everyone has a smartphone in their hand, so to be able to text an alert regarding snow emergencies or water main breaks in specific neighborhoods, that's something that makes a lot of sense to be able to provide that option to our citizens.
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National Guardsman were making phone calls to ensure those who were on the waiting list would be vaccinated at the event. If someone canceled or didn't show up, health department staff moved on to the next person the waiting list.
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“We're seeing an absolutely unethical gaming of the system: 'If you don't find loopholes to help yourself,' people say, 'you're the sucker.' " There's no doubt that when demand is high and supply is limited, people are capable of outrageous self-regard.
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For weeks, Americans have watched those who are well connected, wealthy or crafty “jump the line” to get a vaccine, while others are stuck, endlessly waiting on hold to get an appointment, watching sign-up websites crash or loitering outside clinics in the often-futile hope of getting a shot.
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According to the CDC, with immunization and continued mitigations strategies, herd immunity to COVID-19 could be achieved with a 70 to 75 percent immunization rate. That rate rises if variant strains become dominant.
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The Spokane Fire Department Community Assistance Response Team works to connect frequent 911 callers to much-needed resources that can help address the root cause of their calls for emergency services.
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Guidance for how to set up second doses is supposed to be streamlined. New lanes are being planned to augment capacity at drive-in sites where lines have been so long that some seniors have run out of gas waiting.
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“We vaccinated people on snow machines, on four wheelers, in trucks, in airplanes, standing on tarmacs in -20 windchill, in clinics, in houses — basically anywhere we could to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible.”
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