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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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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.”
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Michigan’s program to vaccinate about 300,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities launched on Dec. 28, but it’s been very slow going so far: As of Sunday, Jan. 10, only 28,775 have gotten their first shot.
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Samaritan’s Purse — a nondenominational, evangelical Christian disaster-relief organization that deploys medical teams to such places as Africa, Iraq and Haiti — is bringing a mobile unit to Antelope Valley Hospital.
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Most people have heard about the state's system of prioritizing immunity based on vulnerability. It's an outline of phases and tiers that starts with front-line medical staff and ends with the general population.
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The vaccine rollout has been slower than expected, and some people are opting not to receive it. Cases are climbing in much of the U.S., and experts say there will likely still be restrictions in place this summer.
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For large and small jurisdictions, FEMA’s National Risk Index can provide data on 18 different hazards and what an outcome of those hazards may be, allowing for officials and individuals to develop mitigation strategies.
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The first phase of COVID-19 vaccine distribution has been slow in some states and has resulted in confusion on the part of residents, causing concern among officials about the rest of the process.
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Seniors like Michael Kruczek, 67, of Dearborn Heights, who will be newly eligible Monday for vaccination, say they are frustrated and confused about a lack of information about how to schedule those appointments.
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The Bloomberg analysis shows the state leading all others with 4.13 doses per 100 people administered, and, according to its latest numbers, 58.6 percent of 126,000 delivered doses having been administered.
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The California Correctional Peace Officers Association's board includes representatives from all 35 prisons plus some who represent officers outside prisons, such as parole agents and officers who work at fire camps.
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Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine acknowledged this week some health-care workers have declined the vaccine, and noted some work in nursing homes, where the COVID toll has been especially high.
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Intensive care bed availability in the Bay Area rose fractionally on Wednesday to 7.4%, but the overall picture across the state looked grim. Capacity remained at 0% in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
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While the state is officially still in the 1A portion of its distribution plan —reserved for health-care and frontline workers — some providers began as early as last week to consider vaccinating older adults in the 1B priority group.
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About half of hospital workers in Riverside County, Calif., are passing on the vaccine for now, county spokeswoman Brooke Federico said. In Orange County, health providers report that 30% of workers are holding back.
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The number of COVID patients in the county’s hospitals hit an all-time high Monday, and officials expect the situation to worsen in coming weeks as a new surge of people who were infected during the holidays become ill.
