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Weakness in U.S. Disaster Response

Posted on May 22, 2020 by recoverydiva
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From the NY times: Virus Crisis Exposes Cascading Weaknesses in U.S. Disaster Response.  Thanks to Jim Dooley for the citation.

We have know for some time that in the event of a hazardous material threat or a health threat/disaster, the use of many older paid and volunteer helpers would be a problem.

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