{"id":29695,"date":"2018-01-13T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29695"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:46:43","slug":"alabama-declares-state-of-emergency-for-the-flu-epidemic-as-the-us-death-toll-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29695","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/alabama-declares-state-of-emergency-flu-epidemic\/\">Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nc_socialPanel swp_leaf swp_d_fullColor swp_i_fullColor swp_o_fullColor scale-100 scale-fullWidth swp_one\" data-position=\"both\" data-float=\"floatLeft\" data-count=\"4\" data-floatcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-emphasize=\"0\">\n<div class=\"nc_tweetContainer totes totesalt\" data-id=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Citing a strain on \u201coverwhelmed\u201d health resources, Governor Kay Ivey declared an official <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/nxs-wkrgtv-media-us-east-1\/document_dev\/2018\/01\/11\/Alabama%20SOE%20Proclamation%20-%20Influenza_1515712024152_31425727_ver1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Emergency<\/a> in Alabama on Thursday due to the rapidly spreading flu epidemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WHEREAS the State Health Officer has reported that an outbreak of the influenza virus has occurred in the State of Alabama; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS this outbreak poses a high probability of widespread exposure to an infectious agent that poses significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people in the affected population; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS the health care facilities and personnel of the State are overwhelmed by the number of ill patients and taxed to such an extent that care of patients may now no longer be provided in the traditional, normal, and customary manner nor is the utilization of traditional, normal, and customary standards of care possible.<\/p>\n<p>NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kay Ivey, Governor of the State of Alabama, pursuant to relevant provisions of the Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955, section 31-9-1 et seq., Code of Alabama (1975), on the recommendation of the State Health Officer, do hereby declare that a State Public Health Emergency exists in the State of Alabama. I direct the appropriate state agencies to exercise their statutory and regulatory authority to assist the communities and entities affected. I also direct the Alabama Department of Public Health and Alabama Emergency Management Agency to seek federal assistance as may be available.<\/p>\n<p>FURTHER, I direct the following:<\/p>\n<p>1. Health care facilities that have invoked their emergency operation plans in response to this public health emergency may implement the \u201calternative standards of care\u201d plans provided therein, and such are declared to be the state approved standard of care in health care facilities to be executed by health care professionals and allied professions and occupations providing services in response to this outbreak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises Citing a strain on \u201coverwhelmed\u201d health resources, Governor Kay Ivey declared an official State of Emergency in Alabama on Thursday due to the rapidly spreading flu epidemic. WHEREAS the State Health Officer has reported that an outbreak of the influenza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14257,6156,1697,17906,11955,17907,5837,3854,1217],"class_list":["post-29695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alabama","tag-daisy-luther","tag-flu","tag-flu-epidemic","tag-influenza","tag-kay-ivey","tag-organic-prepper","tag-public-health","tag-state-of-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29696,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions\/29696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}