Experts have been predicting a global flu pandemic for years. So why was the U.S. so unprepared for coronavirus?
After that comes “managed inventory,” a steady trickle of equipment, staff and pharmaceuticals targeted to. In some cases, the Department of Health and Human Services can also send a Federal Medical Station, a MASH-style compound of portable tents capable of treating up to 250 patients.
“First we engaged in a months-long battle about whether the city or the state should administer the money,” she said. “Then, we fought with federal and state agencies about obscure questions like whether we were allowed to rebuild a three-bedroom home for a single person. The amount of time we spent in administrative fights where no oversight agency would take a definitive stand was unbelievable.”
“Bureaucracy has its benefits because we get predictability,” she said, “but in the middle of natural disaster it means you end up spending a lot of time just figuring out who’s in charge.”For every $1 spent preparing for disasters, America saves roughly $6 in relief funds. Despite years of warnings and dozens of critical reports, politicians have never had a reason to fix the problems in America’s disaster preparedness systems.
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