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• Rapid Response: Are you monitoring the health of your service?

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  Two lessons from the New Jersey volunteer ambulance squad that closed its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Take action: Tell Congress what EMS needs to battle COVID-19

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  NAEMT President Matt Zavadsky: Keep the pressure on Congress to ensure EMS personnel are covered in all applicable COVID-19 provisions

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  How a community came together to protect its most vulnerable citizens

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  Vitals Aware Services

  Law enforcement, EMS and civic leaders joined forces to get a valuable communication app in the right hands

• Minn. bill would allow presumption of work-related COVID-19

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  First responders in the state are urging lawmakers to pass the bill in order to ease the path to workers' compensation

• What is the Defense Production Act, and could it help slow the PPE shortage?

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  A Korean War-era law has been touted by several health officials, political leaders and historians as a way of getting needed supplies into the hands of medical workers

• Mass. lawmakers seek hazard duty pay for quarantined, infected first responders

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  A bipartisan proposal would prevent affected first responders in the state from needing to using their sick, personal or vacation days while they are unable to work

• Lawmaker to propose federal tax holiday for first responders

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  Rep. Bill Huizenga plans to introduce a bill that would allow for a three-month tax holiday modeled after tax relief for active military

• Dear Congress, now is the time to fix EMS

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  COVID-19 is overwhelming the already over-stressed and underfunded emergency medical services system. This is what EMS needs to survive the pandemic

• Petition calls for first responder hazard pay during COVID-19 pandemic

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  A Change.org petition launched by a Kentucky EMT has received nearly 25,000 signatures over the last two weeks

• IAFC president says fire and EMS ‘orphaned’ by Congress and Trump

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  Chief Gary Ludwig calls for action, saying federal aid for fire and EMS was largely overlooked in the CARES Act

• Treasury secretary says first responders could receive COVID-19 hazard pay

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  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said a fourth stimulus package could include hazard pay for those on the front lines of the crisis

• NAEMT issues call to action, demands federal COVID-19 support for EMS

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  The association has published an op-ed, and sent a letter to Congress and the White House urging immediate action on a list of EMS needs

• NAEMT: Governments have failed to provide funding, protection for EMS

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  The association issued a statement expressing that EMS agencies have yet to receive needed relief during the COVID-19 national health emergency

• Ohio bill would mandate COVID-19 disclosure to first responders

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  The proposal comes after firefighters who transported the first patient in the state to die from the disease were not notified of the exposure

• NAEMT, AAA call for Congress to include EMS in COVID-19 relief package

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  The organizations urged supporters to contact their representatives and ask for measures including reimbursements, tax deduction and direct funding

• COVID-19 funding to help agencies continue to serve

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  Detailing grant options and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act aimed at relieving financial burdens on communities

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