FEMA’s tasks pit COVID-19 vaccinations against hurricane preparations
With about 5 weeks to prepare for hurricane season, the federal emergency response agency is currently responding to 118 major disasters across the country, 59 stemming from COVID-19.
By Emily KoppCQ-Roll Call (Tribune News Service)
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Leanne Montenegro, 21, covers her eyes because she doesn t like the sight of needles, while she receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA vaccination center at Miami Dade College this month in Miami. FEMA has repeatedly reached out to other federal agencies for volunteers to help with the mass vaccination centers. Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
Staffing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is at critical lows as the agency has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, which experts say is setting back preparations for hurricanes.
. (Tribune News Service) Staffing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is at critical lows as the agency has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, which experts say is setting back preparations for hurricanes. With about five weeks to prepare for hurricane season, 77% of staff are already deployed, according to a memo released at a short daily briefing Sunday. The United States saw a similar level of depletion of FEMA staff in reserve in 2017, when three Category 4 hurricanes made landfall and wildfires raged. President Joe Biden assigned the federal government more responsibility than the Trump administration did for ending the pandemic that has killed at least 572,000 Americans. But the vaccination push has run headlong into preparations for natural disasters.
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