Sacramento-area fire crews and public health officials are launching a new initiative to provide mobile health support to the community. “We’re essentially bridging the gap between emergency services and the hospital,” Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Scott Perryman told FOX40. Think of it as an urgent care center on wheels.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTXL-TV FOX 40 Sacramento

The South Carolina Department of Health is creating a database that will give first responders more information about the places and people they’re responding to during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came on Tuesday during a news conference with Dr. Linda Bell, DHEC’s Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach

First responders and emergency workers are urging Minnesota lawmakers to ease their ability to obtain workers’ compensation should they contract COVID-19. A bill before lawmakers would encompass firefighters, paramedics, police, nurses, doctors and people providing child care to emergency responders, among several others whose jobs put them at particular risk of contracting the disease that had infected 689 and killed 17 Minnesotans as of Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star Tribune

Doctors and nurses short of face masks has some local artists making use of their 3D printers. It's a long process, but after the group met with hospital staff about what they need, they say they're planning to make hundreds for both Astria Health and Virginia Mason Memorial. The Yakima Maker Space has been closed to the public for weeks now, but a small group of members are working to pump out hundreds of masks for hospitals in the area with their 3D printers.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

Seattle officials have booked an entire downtown hotel for three months to house first responders and other essential city employees who’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus and can’t isolate or quarantine at home. The city is set to spend at least $2.8 million on the 155-room Executive Hotel Pacific as more firefighters, police officers and other crucial workers in Seattle and across Washington are contracting the COVID-19 illness caused by the virus.
- PUB DATE: 4/1/2020 7:41:34 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times