‘NO SURGE PLAN’: THE PANDEMIC FUNDING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN — Public health experts trooped to Capitol Hill in 2018 and 2019 to ask Congress to invest hundreds of millions of additional dollars in the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, testifying that many of the programs created after 9/11 to ready the nation’s health system for any kind of disaster had since been stripped down to dangerously low levels, Alice Miranda Ollstein writes…
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