{"id":51540,"date":"2020-03-03T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51540"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:41:02","slug":"fema-is-preparing-for-coronavirus-emergency-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51540","title":{"rendered":"FEMA is Preparing For Coronavirus “Emergency Declaration”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FEMA IS PREPARING FOR CORONAVIRUS \u201cEMERGENCY DECLARATION\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As Americans scramble to prepare themselves for the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is also preparing.  FEMA is \u201caware of the gravity of the situation\u201d and ready to assist in a coronavirus response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEMA officials are preparing for an \u201cinfectious disease emergency declaration\u201d by the president that would allow the agency to provide disaster relief funding to state and local governments, as well as federal assistance to support the coronavirus response, according to agency planning documents reviewed by NBC News.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration would have to use the 1988 Stafford Act to enable FEMA to provide such disaster assistance. Emergency declarations are most often used in the event of natural disasters but can be used to help manage disease outbreaks. \u201cTo me, this is another indication that the president and the White House are finally aware of the gravity of the situation,\u201d said Michael Coen, who was FEMA chief of staff during the Obama administration. \u201cThey need to consider all tools available to them and have contingencies for action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI actually find this reassuring,\u201d said Tim Manning, who was a FEMA deputy administrator under President Barack Obama. \u201cI hope this discussion has been happening continuously over the last couple of months.\u201d An emergency declaration would allow FEMA to provide disaster medical assistance teams, mobile hospitals, and military transport, among other kinds of federal support, Manning said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FEMA IS PREPARING FOR CORONAVIRUS \u201cEMERGENCY DECLARATION\u201d As Americans scramble to prepare themselves for the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is also preparing.  FEMA is \u201caware of the gravity of the situation\u201d and ready to assist in a coronavirus response. FEMA officials are preparing for an \u201cinfectious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28817,307,827,7258],"class_list":["post-51540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coronavirus","tag-fema","tag-united-states","tag-viral-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51542,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51540\/revisions\/51542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}