In a call with reporters, local and county officials with the National Association of Counties raised the alarm that the federal response to Covid-19 has left counties in the lurch and without resources
On a county level, officials lament "an inadequate and chaotic federal response" to Covid-19People wait in line in their cars to get tested for COVID-19 at Roseland Community Hospital on April 3 in Chicago. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images
In a call with reporters Wednesday, local and county officials with the National Association of Counties raised the alarm that the federal response to Covid-19 has left counties in the lurch and without resources. Much of the challenges they’re facing involve meeting budgets and hitting revenue targets, which have been sorely hit by states closing businesses nationwide.
Cook County, Illinois, Board President Toni Preckwinkle was among the county officials who was on the call. Preckwinkle said they have “faced some tremendous challenges around personal protective equipment ... there's been, I can only say, an inadequate and chaotic federal response to this.” “Our purchasing folks in our Office of Emergency Management have been scouring the marketplace to try to find, particularly the N95 masks that we need, but, personal protective equipment more broadly," she said."I think that's been one of the most kind of the biggest challenges for local units of government in the fact that we haven't had a comprehensive and coherent effort at the federal level to stockpile and distribute this equipment.
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