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COVID-19: FEMA's Role in the Response and Related Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 14, 2020
Release Date July 14, 2020
Report No. GAO-20-685T
Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 100,000 reported deaths in the U.S., widespread unemployment, and an overall economic downturn. For the first time in history, major disaster declarations were issued simultaneously for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

We testified about our work on FEMA’s role in the COVID-19 response and what our prior work suggests about future challenges for this and other responses to nationally-significant biological incidents.

In our prior work we made several recommendations to FEMA, including that it do a better job collecting and analyzing lessons learned.

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