Emergency Management - US

In a new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), public health officials cite the challenges of using federal COVID-19 funds to build and maintain infrastructure for emergency readiness. ...

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Suggestions for improving emergency operations centers

Tue, 2021-07-20 12:33 — mike kraft

The future of Emergency Operation Centers: Six shifts to consider from COVID-19

...In all its shapes, emergency operation centers (EOCs) have been at the core of emergency management since emergency response became a coordinated team activity. With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-specific and, more broadly, disaster-focused EOCs have been under pressure like never before. These EOCs assisted in delivering responses at an unprecedented scale globally, especially in the public sector, helping further validate the concept.

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More than half of public health workers showed signs of at least one mental health condition during the pandemic--CDC study

Mon, 2021-06-28 17:40 — mike kraft

Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress ... Among 26,174 surveyed state, tribal, local, and territorial public health workers, 53% reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the past 2 weeks. Symptoms were more prevalent ... CDCMMWR Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Among 26,174 surveyed state, tribal, local, and territorial public health workers, 53.0% reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the past 2 weeks. Symptoms were more prevalent among those who were unable to take time off or worked ≥41 hours per week.

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In Trump’s last days, a spree of environmental rollbacks

Sat, 2021-01-16 19:03 — mike kraft

In Trump’s last days, a spree of environmental rollbacks The Trump administration went on a final spree of environmental rollbacks with just days left in office, scaling back standards for equipment Americans use to heat their homes, habitat for the northern spotted owl, and protections for conservation lands in California and Utah. Juliet Eilperin, Dino Grandoni Washington Post

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First responders and medical staff test positive for coronavirus. UW doctors not getting masks

Wed, 2020-03-04 07:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Members of the Kirkland Fire Department transport a patient from the Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state, on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Kirkland. CREDIT: KUOW PHOTO/MEGAN FARMER

kuow.org - by Ashley Hiruko and Isolde Raftery - March 3, 2020

. . . 26 firefighters and three police officers in Kirkland, Washington, are in quarantine. All those cases are linked to the first responders contact with the Life Care Center, a nursing home where there has been an outbreak of the virus.

As of Tuesday, 12 of these first responders were showing flu-like symptoms, Kirkland officials reported. Most are in home isolation and quarantine.

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