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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.
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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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No matter the lockdown model, a range of business interests are already making the case directly and on a daily basis to the Cuomo administration that the state can ill afford the economic walloping New York took during the shutdowns this spring.
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Many trends held from the first 1,000 deaths to the second. Age was the dominant risk factor, with 81 percent of deaths involving people 70 or older. Minorities continue to suffer more deaths at younger ages, representing 61 percent of COVID-19 deaths under age 65.
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The cloud-based platform allows the city to bring together data that is trapped in silos, analyze the data and present it visually to drive mitigation policies that could help ward off a second wave of the coronavirus.
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Survivors often rush to their homes to assess the damage, sifting through the debris looking for keepsakes in shorts and flip flops. What they don’t realize is that wildfires generate high concentrations of toxic chemicals, poisonous gases and heavy metals.
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Virtual watchers can use computers or tablets to monitor the camera feeds. Pointer said the method for monitoring is much different when done virtually. Only some of the cameras rotate. They also are not zoomed in and take a more broad view of the area.
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“(With) the levels of COVID-19 that we are faced with and addressing now, if we add on the potential for more flu patients, we will again be stretching our inpatient hospital capacity to its limits, and we would like to do everything we can to keep us from getting there.”
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The “agile fire station” would be tailored to the modern firefighter and be designed to mitigate the onset of pathogens, like COVID-19, as well as serve the community by creating surge capacity for mass vaccinations.
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UM posted an update on its COVID-19 dashboard Thursday, Sept. 24, saying the university is aware of the increase in positive cases and that the Washtenaw County Health Department is managing the off-campus cases and providing contact tracing.
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Advocacy groups returning to face-to-face outreach are finding a landscape changed by the coronavirus, and they have become lifelines, through food banks or passing along contacts for organizations that help with rent or utility bills.
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"We continue to work with our partners in the community to take reasonable action to mitigate COVID-19," Douglas said. " The recommendations to mitigate COVID-19 include the use of face coverings, social distancing, increased hand-washing/sanitizing, and staying home if you are ill."
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Between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10, the historically bad concentrations of wildfire smoke were responsible for at least 1,200 and possibly up to 3,000 deaths in California that otherwise would not have occurred, according to an estimate by researchers at Stanford University.
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The governor announced on Tuesday the new mask mandate — along with the governor's third public health emergency — in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19. Positive cases had started to drop after Evers' first mask mandate in July, but have been rising.
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New data reveals that while patients are still being rushed to intensive care units, a greater proportion are coming out alive. Since the pandemic began, the cumulative death rate for Californians with COVID-19 has fallen by more than half.
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Today, the nation is expected to record its 200,000th death from COVID-19. As of Monday, 760 of these people died in San Diego County. As the nation marks this milestone, we spoke to several county residents on how the pandemic has changed their lives.
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At least 94 people tied to the farm tested positive, the largest farm outbreak in Oceana County, according to county health department emails obtained by the Documenting COVID-19 project at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University.
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“We’ll really have a good sense of people having the flu, coupled with coronavirus on top of it, and how it affected our morbidity and mortality. We’re participating with delivering the flu vaccine. We’re hitting high-risk populations.”
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On Sept. 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, calling it "legislation (that) rights a historic wrong and recognizes the sacrifice of thousands of incarcerated people who have helped battle wildfires in our state."
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Last week, Americans saw it happen again. No one’s given a name to the conflagration that incinerated almost 5 million acres of California, Oregon and Washington just in the last week and filled the skies with smoke.
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