From Politico: The Covid Emergency Is Ending. Here’s What We Should Do Next.
It’s time for a new scientifically feasible and politically sustainable strategy to make the coming lull in the pandemic permanent.
From HSNW: Post-disaster traumas, children | Homeland Security Newswire. Natural disasters are typically accompanied by a flood of gruesome images on TV and social media. These images can have a powerful psychological impact on children – whether those children are physically in the line of danger or watching from thousands of miles away.
From Homeland Security News Wire: Survivors of Weather-Related Disasters May Suffer Accelerated Aging
From Inside Climate News: One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation. Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead.
From Scientific American: FEMA to Start Tracking Race of Disaster-Aid Applicants. The agency wants to examine if aid is distributed inequitably.
Government watchdog says HHS is at ‘high risk’ of botching a future crisis
GAO criticizes the response to emergencies over four administrations, including coronavirus, Ebola and Zika, as well as extreme weather events
From the WashPost: How the East Coast’s busiest highway unraveled: 36 hours of confusion and misery on I-95. Miscommunications and holes in Virginia’s response added to the confusion as motorists were stranded overnight
From the WashPost: The Marshall Fire leveled an entire Colorado neighborhood. Residents wonder whether to rebuild.
NOTE: The Diva noticed that most of the article is devoted to rebuilding issues, but does not give significant coverage to the relative lack of emergency alerting and questions about the emergency response.
Recovery Diva 