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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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Even as access to testing grew in wealthier, whiter parts of several California Bay Area counties, community testing sites lagged or offered only limited hours in communities of color where the virus was spreading fastest.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is offering financial aid for buildings with public places to install ultraviolet germicidal irradiation lights in air ducts to minimize the spread of airborne microorganisms like COVID-19.
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Just before 8 a.m. Saturday, Hurricane Hanna — the eighth named storm of the year — was producing winds up to 75 mph, moving west toward the Texas coastline, south of Corpus Christi, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The Booneville School District in northeast Mississippi, like many neighboring districts, was set to have students return to the classroom Aug. 5, but decided to change course when teachers were exposed to the coronavirus.
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But some North Carolina manufacturers have weathered the coronavirus crisis by switching gears during the pandemic to produce much needed personal protective equipment. For some, the transition was a lifeline. For others, it felt like a duty.
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Even as Alabama doctors are improving at treating COVID patients, they are being slammed with record numbers of them. Hospitals large and small across Alabama are seeing new record numbers of COVID patients.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends a ‘Science Framework’ to develop mechanisms for collecting evidence and for funding on a continuous basis for consistent, evidence-based responses.
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The warning was in response to an increasing percentage of tests that are coming back positive for COVID-19 in Ohio’s two largest cities, along with Baltimore, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, the report says.
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Texas reports show 177 nursing homes in the greater Houston and Fort Bend County area currently have at least one positive COVID-19 resident and with an overall total of 3,027 cases, 309 deaths and 899 recoveries.
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The tsunami warning originally stretched from the Alaska Peninsula to Kodiak Island and the western Kenai Peninsula, sending Alaskans scrambling to higher ground in communities such as Kodiak, Sand Point, Unalaska and Homer.
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Five Luzerne County, Pa., agencies were on the list, with a sixth agency in Lackawanna County. Altogether, a total of $140,575.47 was awarded for personal protective equipment and essential supplies through FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant.
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States across the South are experiencing surges of the novel coronavirus as reopening efforts continue. Texas, Arizona, Florida and Georgia have all seen a spike in their case counts, and North Carolina reached 100,000 COVID-19 cases earlier this week.
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For Southern California's elderly and homeless populations, stifling heat is more than an inconvenience. Without the cooling centers and shelters that are sanctuaries for vulnerable populations, heat can be a killer.
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One thing that remains clear is the urgent need for close coordination and information sharing between emergency management and public safety agencies, the public and private health communities, the private sector, and across the “whole of government.
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On Monday Yellowstone County reported it had 485 active cases, more than any other county in the state. The state reported 88 new cases of the coronavirus Monday and 48 active hospitalizations. Overall, the state had 1,248 active cases on Monday.
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DOC usually has around 22,000 inmates in custody, but the number fluctuates as individuals are sentenced to prison or released after completing their sentence. The mass testing initiative started May 12.
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Restrictions on businesses and gatherings, a now-expired “stay-at-home” order, and repeated pleas from state leaders for social distancing and mask-wearing have slowed the spread of the coronavirus enough in Minnesota to give hospitals time to prepare.
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After the initial scramble to find enough equipment in the pandemic’s early days, some hospitals and public health officials across the Bay Area say they now have enough protective gear in place, or plans in place to get it.
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