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FEMA ADVISORY – April 5, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic:
Attached you will find today’s FEMA Daily Briefing Points for the Whole-of-America response to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. These briefing points include Topline Messages, as well as information associated with FEMA and Department of Health and Human Services Response; FEMA Disaster Response Capacity; Federal Funding of National Guard (Title 32); Community-Based Testing Sites; Strategic National Stockpile; FDA Ventilator Guidance; CDC Respirator Guidance; Defense Production Act; Guidance from Federal Agencies; CDC Public Guidance; Coping With Stress; Combating Disinformation and Rumors; and How To Help.
Topline messaging includes the following:
- Under the direction of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, FEMA, HHS and our federal partners are working with state, local, tribal and territorial governments to execute a whole-of-America response to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and protect the public.
- The number one priority is the health and safety of the American people.
- On March 31, the president extended the nation’s Slow the Spread campaign until April 30.
- The American people play a key role in the campaign to help slow the virus’ spread and keep our most high-risk populations safe.
- On April 3, CDC issued a recommendation to the public to use cloth face coverings in community settings to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by people are infected and do not know it.
- For the latest updates and information on how to protect yourself and what to do if you think you are sick is available at www.coronavirus.gov.
- HHS will be providing state, territory and tribal Public Health departments with a one-time shipment of Abbott COVID-19 rapid tests.
- Shipments are expected to arrive at the 70 identified locations by April.
- The tests allow for immediate, on-site testing at the point-of-care.
- FEMA is expediting movement of critical supplies from the global market to medical distributors in various locations across the U.S.
- FEMA continues to coordinate an air bridge for flights from Asia. The first flight landed Sunday, March 29, and delivered 80 tons of much needed PPE supplies to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
- Additional flights landed in Chicago on March 30, Miami on March 31, Los Angeles on April 1, and Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, on April 3. FEMA has more flights scheduled and is adding more daily.
- Each flight contains critical personal protective equipment (PPE), to include gloves, gowns, goggles, and masks in varying quantities. FEMA does not have detailed visibility on the amount of PPE until the flights are loaded overseas.
- Overseas flights are arriving at airports that are operational hubs. They are not indicators that the supplies will be distributed in those locations. All supplies are national supplies and will be distributed to hot spots and through the vendors regular supply chain to locations across the country.
- Upon arrival, PPE is provided, in varying quantities, first to medical distributors in areas of greatest need; then, the remainder will be infused into the broader U.S. supply chain.
- Given the scarcity of the ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and the current capacity of the private sector to meet the demand, the federal government has adopted a process to manage federal ventilator resources to ensure ventilators are shipped to the states in the amount needed to manage the immediate crisis.
- At present, the federal government has 9,800 total ventilators available, which includes 9,054 in the Strategic National Stockpile and 900 available from the Department of Defense.
- DOD will deliver 300 ventilators from its supply to New Jersey today, April 5.
- As of April 4, FEMA and HHS have delivered ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile to Alaska (60), California (170), Connecticut (50), Florida (200), Georgia (150), Illinois (450), Louisiana (150), Maryland (120), Michigan (400), New Jersey (850), New York (4,400), Oregon (140) and Washington (500).
- Additional allocations in process include a 250 bed Federal Medical Station, a Public Health strike team and an additional 300 ventilators for Michigan; a 50 bed Federal Medical Station for the Metro DC area; 30 ventilators for Guam; an additional 200 ventilators for Louisiana; an additional 200 ventilators to New Jersey; and 100 ventilators for Massachusetts.
- Forty states, four territories and 12 tribes have issued stay at home orders.
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