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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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Public safety, fire, law enforcement, and other life safety personnel are exempted from this requirement, as their personal protective equipment requirements will be governed by their respective agencies.
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Hospital officials denied that they were low on staff or protective gear, but the high case load in the area prompted Rep. Raul Ruiz, an ER physician, to call for a reinstatement of restrictions and mask wearing.
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The new state budget taking effect July 1 authorizes $13.1 billion for California’s 34 prisons, housing 114,000 inmates, more than three times what any other state spends. That sum includes $3.6 billion for medical and dental services and mental health care.
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From Riverside and San Bernardino counties to Los Angeles and Orange counties, the numbers of patients infected with COVID-19 have been climbing dramatically in the past few weeks and hospital CEOs are getting “anxious” about the ability to handle the influx.
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Filtered-out germs don’t vanish — the novel coronavirus can live up to 72 hours on surfaces, masks included. Just touching the outside of a contaminated respirator is risky, and is considered the biggest danger of reusing them.
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Best government efforts to predict where flooding will strike have underestimated the risk to nearly 6 million homes and commercial properties, mostly in the nation's interior, leaving them unprepared for potential devastation.
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The ongoing survey is gathering data from thousands in those communities that don’t traditionally have the opportunity to provide information about how they are affected by health matters, in this case the coronavirus pandemic.
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A reorganized Listos California campaign for preparing the state’s vulnerable populations for disasters had to adjust with technology and a newer approach as the state faces wildfires and other potential disasters.
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The Hillsborough County mask order in particular, which went into force Wednesday evening, calls for businesses and their employees to not only deny entry to those without masks but “require or compel” those mask-less patrons to leave.
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Prison officials didn’t heed the warning and, since then, confirmed coronavirus infections among prisoners have rocketed from 48 to 456, far outpacing any other facility in the state and overwhelming a system that waited too long to react.
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Across Jefferson County, the number of cases confirmed in nearly every city is rising faster than has been seen before. Beaumont, with nearly half of the population, accounts for about 75% of the 1,003 confirmed cases here so far.
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The number of new cases is the highest since June 12 but still well below the numbers throughout much of the spring. In April and early May, the state regularly reported more than 1,000 new cases each day. It’s been more than a month since the state has had 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day.
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Rather than issuing calls for "voluntary" or "mandatory" evacuations, California officials suggest that counties issue evacuation warnings and orders. An evacuation order notes an immediate threat to life and safety requiring people to leave their homes.
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But FEMA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will continue to support ongoing testing at local pharmacies through at least the end of August. The agency said in a statement that the Trump administration was working with state officials “to establish a rigorous state-led testing plan moving forward.
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"A 30-day supply is 100,000 masks and 30,000 gowns. We're supposed to request a 90-day supply, but we'll see how the first 30 days go. If we really have to request a 90-day supply, we may have to figure out a distribution location or storage source.”
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Miami-Dade hospitals report far more beds available than beds filled with COVID patients. Still, hospital administrators and emergency room physicians say they’re concerned by the surge, and that they’ve resumed near daily meetings with state regulators
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Over the past few weeks, cases surged in younger age groups. The Florida Department of Health announced a record daily total of 185 new cases reported Sunday for Polk County; 112 of them were residents age 40 or younger.
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At least nine employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and some have returned to work at the county’s Emergency Operations Center, which also houses the Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Medical Services and the 911 dispatch center.
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