After being brought late into the government's response, FEMA says it has raced to catch up to the ever-growing demands and has mobilized quickly to get critical equipment to those who need it.
where the Federal Emergency Management Agency was and why is wasn’t working overtime to assist a nation amid the pandemic.
“It is not a surprise to me that things began to improve when FEMA was elevated” to oversee pandemic response, Cohen said. “What is a surprise to me, is that they weren’t activated in January.”President Donald Trump attends a teleconference with governors at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Washington.
“FEMA now is fully engaged at the highest levels,” President Trump said at a daily coronavirus briefing. According to a 13-page document prepared by FEMA’s press office outlining the agency’s actions to the COVID-10 pandemic and provided to ABC News, FEMA has designated $5.6 billion to the fight, coordinated the delivery of 33 million masks, 56 million N-95 respirators, and over 10,000 ventilators -- many from overseas -- and activated the National Response Coordination Center, or NRCC, the agency’s mission control at headquarters in Washington.
Chicago’s McCormick Place, one of the largest convention centers in the country, is normally used for trade and industry shows. It will now serve as a relief to hospitals if the city starts to reach their capacity by taking on their less severe patients into their 3,000 bed temporary hospital, according to James Joseph, FEMA’s “Region V” federal coordinating officer.
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