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The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week. -
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 new data was released Thursday as part of a weekly update by the state. The counties each receive an advisory on a scale of 1-4 based on seven indicators of how prolific coronavirus is in a community. The full data for each county can be found at coronavirus.ohio.gov.
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City council approved nearly $15 million in emergency expenditures Wednesday, which include money to hire more temporary medical workers ($7.8 million) and assist Houston artists ($2 million), among other items.
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In all, more than 349,000 acres have burned in Northern and Central California — the equivalent of 546 square miles, more than the land area of the entire city of Los Angeles. At least 134 structures have been destroyed and the fire-fanning weather conditions have brought record temperatures.
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As the coronavirus began to hit New York state, the Department of Health deployed a health-care platform to collect and analyze information from disparate sources to determine trends, manage inventories, and discover correlations and co-morbidities.
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“The hot, dry weather is making fire behavior extreme, and the rapid spread is already taxing our resources to fight fires,” the governor said at an afternoon news conference. “We need to do everything we can to stop fires from starting in the first place.”
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San Antonio likely will run out of money to fund the city’s public health response to COVID-19 if federal lawmakers don’t come up with more money to fight the spread of the disease, the city’s top health official warned Tuesday.
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A spokeswoman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Monday that it’s too early to say whether the vaccine will be mandatory for any certain occupations or groups of people in New Mexico but that it will be strongly recommended for residents deemed to be at high risk.
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Convalescent plasma is the liquid part of blood that is collected from those who have recovered from COVID-19. These patients develop antibodies in the blood against the virus and these proteins could help fight the infection.
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Some physicians say they feel more protected from the virus working in the hospital than outside of it because of all the protective gear they’re required to wear and health protocols they follow. But in the initial weeks of the pandemic, there was more uncertainty.
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In July, Washington state-based Honu began operating a county drive-through site at the University of Dallas in Irving. About 15% of people tested there had to wait seven or more days from the time they were swabbed to when they received their results.
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In addition to the spike in demand, the sheer breadth of the heat wave, which covers a huge swath of the western United States, was a key culprit. The record heat caused electricity shortages in many neighboring states, preventing them from exporting power.
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Some of those schools in Cherokee and Paulding counties in Georgia had to close just days after opening due to outbreaks of COVID-19, portending possible trouble ahead as many of the state’s 1.8 million students return to classrooms.
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The program is headed by Brian Wallace, a 14-year Seattle firefighter and paramedic who manages the emergency medical technician certifications for firefighters, and organizes thrice-yearly staff trainings where firefighters review their skills.
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Charleston County, S.C., is educating the public to specialize their hurricane response plans amid the pandemic and is using Smart911 to give those residents the ability to help first responders who may need to assist them.
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It’s part of a long effort by the governor to encourage Michigan residents to “mask up.” She has personally appeared with masks in public and encouraged everybody to put one on to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
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The study examines how four South Florida counties that are hotspots for coronavirus — Miami Dade, Palm Beach, Monroe and Broward — would influence the spread of COVID-19 should a Category 3 hurricane hit the area and force some residents to flee to safer regions.
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In 2018, the Washington Department of Health identified a $30.8 million funding gap for assessment and surveillance of such public health threats, part of a $227 million shortfall for all public health needs in the state.
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As the Valley’s surging infection rate draws national attention, Gov. Gavin Newsom is dispatching three of his coronavirus “strike teams” to the region to help local officials track COVID clusters, inspect workplaces, quarantine the sick and ramp up testing.
