U.S. State Department, HHS Conduct International Inter-Agency Drill To Test Disease Outbreak Preparedness
Associated Press: Feds practice Ebola evacuations despite past Trump criticism
“Donald Trump railed against President Barack Obama’s decision to bring patients with Ebola to the United States for treatment in 2014. Now that Trump is president, his administration is preparing for similar, and possibly larger-scale, evacuations. The State Department and Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday they led an unprecedented inter-agency drill last week to test their preparedness to deal with a new outbreak of Ebola or another deadly, highly infectious disease…” (Lee, 4/18).
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