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from Axios
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website
Inside the start of the great virus airlift
A plane from Shanghai arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Sunday morning carrying an extraordinary load: 12 million gloves, 130,000 N95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 130,000 hand sanitizer units, and 36,000 thermometers. The flight is the start of what might end up being the largest government-led airlift of emergency medical supplies into the United States. That's according to Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, who runs the coronavirus supply chain task force at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He spoke to Axios on Saturday night. The airlift is the most dramatic part of the Trump administration's frantic attempts to catch up with a nationwide medical equipment crisis. Polowczyk told Axios that he's already booked 22 similar flights over the next two weeks.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
History on repeat: As the coronavirus quarantine continues, Spokane historians and health officials can draw on the 1918 flu pandemic for lessons
Two weeks before Spokane went on lockdown, the news was the disease wouldn’t come here. The Spokane Daily Chronicle told its readers “there is no reason to be greatly alarmed” because the “imported type” of viral infection was “not available” here. The city’s public health officer offered soothing words. “If Spokane people will sneeze in their handkerchiefs and turn their heads the ‘other’ way when they cough, there is but a remote chance that the city will be attacked,” he told the paper.
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History on repeat: As the coronavirus quarantine continues, Spokane historians and health officials can draw on the 1918 flu pandemic for lessons
Two weeks before Spokane went on lockdown, the news was the disease wouldn’t come here. The Spokane Daily Chronicle told its readers “there is no reason to be greatly alarmed” because the “imported type” of viral infection was “not available” here. The city’s public health officer offered soothing words. “If Spokane people will sneeze in their handkerchiefs and turn their heads the ‘other’ way when they cough, there is but a remote chance that the city will be attacked,” he told the paper.
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