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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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The county commissioners approved appropriating more than $4.9 million from government reimbursements through each of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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At least one coronavirus vaccine is expected to receive FDA emergency use authorization and be made available early next year to some high-risk individuals like health-care workers and nursing home residents, employees.
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Nurses, doctors and other front-line staff had to reuse N-95 masks, sometimes for days at a time, when metro Detroit became a COVID-19 hot spot in late March and early April. Others couldn't get N95 masks at all.
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Educators are worried about the turmoil that would be caused by reopening and then closing down again. Missing from the conversation is a serious look at how schools will contain cases when they arise in classrooms.
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COVID-19 cases are rising across Nobles County, Minn., with the highest number showing up in individuals ages 26 to 50. A county official said celebrations and COVID fatigue are to blame for the rising number of cases.
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The first of his patients to succumb to COVID-19 died in the fall — a grandmother in her 70s who tested positive along with her granddaughter and four other family members. She was hospitalized within a week and died a few weeks later.
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Ohio reported 3,590 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. It was the first time the state reported more than 3,000 cases in a day and beat its previous record by more than 700."This is by far the highest cases we've ever seen.”
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More than eight months into the pandemic, health-care leaders are again calling for a coordinated national strategy to distribute PPE to protect health-care workers and their patients as a new wave of disease wells up.
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Mike Jordan, spokesman for Alabama Power said as of 6:15 a.m. Friday that 243,000 customers statewide woke up without power. About 61,000 of those customers are in central Alabama, the hardest hit areas in the state.
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Zeta was a Category 2 hurricane when forecasters say it made landfall at about 4 p.m. Wednesday near Cocodrie, Louisiana. The system, which downgraded overnight to a tropical storm, was expected to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 60 mph as it continued its track toward the northeast.
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The agency that oversees U.S. immunization practices may offer insights this week to the federal distribution plan, but for now local public health officials who will be leading the effort here say they are preparing based on assumptions.
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"A nurse can only take care of so many patients safely at a time," Owens said, "so while we have lots of beds and lots of rooms in the city of Lima, what we don't have is an abundance of nurses and other types of healthcare clinicians that can step right in."
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As of this week, all 50 states have active COVID-19 emergency declarations in place. More than 30 have extended their orders this fall, according to a tracker provided by the National Governors Association.
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The proclamation activates the National Guard and other state agencies to respond if needed. It also directs the Alabama Emergency Management Agency to make the appropriate assessments of damages and to seek assistance.
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Zeta's winds intensified to 80 mph, Category 1 strength, as it passed Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday — the storm is expected to make landfall with similar intensity around 7 p.m. Wednesday in southeast Louisiana.
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Neighbors can be uninterested or too busy to help, municipal coffers may be empty, and accessing state or federal grant dollars is a byzantine process that sucks up any free time left after tending to work and family.
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"Unfortunately, I feel that the data and the statistics speak for themselves. It's not heading where we want it to go. It's heading in the wrong direction," Sullivan, the mayor of Brockton, said.
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Minnesota has reported more than 1,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases for more than two consecutive weeks, with Saturday marking the second time since the pandemic began that the count has exceeded 2,000 new cases.
