'I spent 31 years in law enforcement — did a great deal of emergency management — and ... I've never seen this lack of unpreparedness on the federal level,' Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said of the coronavirus response.
to spread information about the coronavirus and encourage the city's more than 390,000 residents to stay home.confirmed coronavirus cases.
In a conversation with NPR's Rachel Martin, Castor, who also served as the city's former police chief, called DeSantis' decision"better late than never."No, I don't think that any community has been able to do that because of the woefully inadequate amount of supplies that we have received ... We started to receive [test swabs]. We also have one of our medical schools here in Tampa is manufacturing swabs now, so we'll be able to collect.
The federal government has been trying to execute emergency aid to help with the pandemic. Are you getting enough help you need right now? It is starting to come in, but I spent 31 years in law enforcement — did a great deal of emergency management — and I can say that I've never seen this lack of [preparedness] on the federal level. And I can understand everyone was caught to a degree by surprise, but we've been at this for a month now, and not to be able to have produced some of these items by this time is very, very surprising.
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