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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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Finding a vaccine is difficult work, but it's not like finding a needle in a haystack. Scientists start from a place of knowledge. Researchers around the world are already working on more than 150 possible vaccines, with 22 in human trials.
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The Aug. 4 storm battered New Jersey with ripping winds and it knocked down trees, power lines and utility poles. Power was returned for all residents and businesses by Monday night, a week after the storm.
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“It’s just hard to imagine how much devastation a flood could do,” Brand told reporters after having the opportunity to tour the area. “We can help consult the community to make sure that they get what they need, in the order that they need it.”
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“Because we’ve been saying the same thing since March — we’ve been saying The. Same. Thing. Since. March. — it’s probably not a lack of education at this point,” said City Manager Robert Eads. “It’s a refusal to do the right thing.”
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“In Alaska, telehealth has been vital for some time, but the coronavirus pandemic has created a new normal and certainly fueled that need,” said U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in a statement last week.
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As many as 2,000 people per day can walk or drive to the ballpark for a free COVID-19 saliva tests. The Texas Department of Emergency Management and Houston Astros teamed up to launch the site, which is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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With Tuesday’s Tropical Storm Isaias barely gone from the radar, experts at Colorado State University released a forecast predicting the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season will be the second busiest on record.
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Officials in three Connecticut towns — Mansfield, West Hartford and Windham — wrote recently to state officials, asking them to reinstate stricter gathering restrictions in their towns to avoid potential super-spreader events.
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"I was trying to encourage people to maybe learn something that they might not know that they'd need, and maybe just ask people to reevaluate their individual situations" on whether to purchase flood insurance.
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The state is performing much better than its neighbors on a key coronavirus metric called the test positivity rate, which measures how many people who get COVID-19 tests turn out to have the disease.
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“I fear we may be an epicenter in the United States right now,” said Jabaar Edmond, an organizer for Florida For All. “When you drill down, Florida is now the epicenter. And St. Pete is one of the epicenters of Florida.”
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As of around 7:45 a.m., 12,574 households were still in the dark, most of them in Western Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, which updates its online map every 15 to 30 minutes.
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Scientists believe the novel coronavirus is spread in three main ways: Through large droplets spread when people are in close contact, through fomites when droplets fall on surfaces and people touch the surfaces and via tiny droplets or aerosols.
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Isaias, which barreled through much of New England on Tuesday, brought wind gusts as high as 63 miles per hour to Massachusetts and caused notable damages in numerous communities across the commonwealth, uprooting trees and knocking power lines down onto roads.
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Testing company's lack of on-site support almost halted testing until the key players ironed out issues plaguing the system, including delayed results and struggles Iowans encountered trying to schedule tests.
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Models had predicted a manageable growth in new cases as society reopened, but this was based on assumptions that the state would conduct necessary and effective testing, contact tracing, quarantines and public outreach.
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“The impact from this storm, in terms of power outages, is greater than Superstorm Sandy. The fierce winds with this storm caused widespread power outages and historic damage, affecting customers in all of the 149 communities we serve in Connecticut."
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The proposed FY 2020-21 budget also includes a new staff position, called the technician for the outdoor warning system, whose job would be to install and oversee the emergency warning system.
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