I know, but it isn't just gloves and masks...our biggest concern is medical response....
there should be coordination to bolster our medical services capacity: expanding the number of beds/rooms; building new or converting existing facilities into temporary non-emergency med service facitlities to free up rooms that can be used as ICUs; ensuring adequate supplies of PPE, for our medical care providers and first responders; managing the supply chains of critical medical supplies and equipment so places where there are surpluses can ship to those places that have critical shortages, across state lines, that's just one element of a multi-layered 50 state response...others could be food supply management ...mobilization of peace-keepers...
it's gonna take real war-like coordination, from top down...
It is in federal law: FEMA is the ultimate governmental authority for national emergencies...F = federal...requires setting national standards for emergency response so that we, state and local govts, are not working against each other, short-term and long-term planning, identifying hazards and appropriate responses; coordinating distribution of human and material resources...
doesn't even look like he's set up an Emergency Command Center yet, a week or so after declaring an emergency...
why did he sign/invoke his authority under the Defense Production Act, which gives him power to direct private companies to produce equipment and supplies to respond to national emergencies?
it seems he is just going through the motions, making pronouncements like POTUS but with little follow though. Just three weeks ago, he (and Pence) said they were going to do a lot a testing in the next few days, and when that didn't happen, he blamed Obama...still haven't rolled out a national testing protocol...
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