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In April, as COVID-19 cases exploded across the U.S. and local officials scrambled for solutions, a police department in Connecticut tried a new way to monitor the spread of the virus. One morning, as masked shoppers lined up 6 feet apart outside Trader Joe’s in Westport, the police department flew a drone overhead to observe their social distancing and detect potential coronavirus symptoms, such as high temperature and increased heart rate.
According to internal emails, the captain flying the mission wanted to “take advantage” of the store’s line. But the store had no heads-up about the flight, and neither did the customers on their grocery runs, even though the drone technology managed to track figures both inside and outside. The drone program was unveiled a week later when the department announced its “Flatten the Curve Pilot Program” in collaboration with the Canadian drone company Draganfly, which was due to last through the summer.
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COVID-19 cases have overall decreased in the District. It is a sharp decrease at that. Cases had been steadily increasing since November, but things turned around in mid-January. With 282 cases reported on Friday, new daily reported cases dropped by 14.3 percent
in the past week, according to the
Washington Post’s tracker. DC Health’s report of the daily case rate, which lags by two days, also shows cases significantly dropping. Although, cases are way more common than they were in the summer months.
SACRAMENTO – Nearly 24 hours after Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg had an outburst about the City’s inability to open warming centers for the unhoused, members of the Sacramento Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue.
The City Council voted unanimously to open the Southside Park pool house as necessary and two downtown parking garages with bathrooms as safe places for people with vehicles.
City Manager Howard Chan allocated $1 million to carry into next week for stand up warming centers in city-owned properties. The funds will assist community-based organizations and religious institutions to open winter shelters as well.
City officials were concerned and felt that they needed to address the situation of the unhoused community during the current storm that included gusting winds up to 60 miles per hour.
Eden Village will house 32 single adults who disabilities for just $300 a month. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON â Down a residential street off U.S. 74, a 400-square-foot home sits vacant in the middle of a muddy and bare 4-acre lot.
Surrounded by nothing, two empty white rocking chairs move gently to and fro on the walk-up front porch as the wind passes. Through the front door, the home is fully furnished, with brand new appliances, made-up beds and enough dishes to cook a decent meal.
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This single home wonât be lonely forever though. A group is now fundraising to turn the acreage into a gated, pedestrian community providing a total of 32 low-cost, forever homes to the homeless and disabled. An anonymous donor has agreed to pay for 16 of them â a $640,000 donation â if the group can secure matches for the other half.