At local COVID-19 command center, virus has a formidable foe
EVERETT — For years, crisis managers rehearsed their response to a worst-case scenario: a devastating earthquake with hundreds of deaths in Snohomish County.
A mock quake could not prepare them for many of the challenges of COVID-19.
“As incredibly catastrophic as an earthquake would be, it wouldn’t be the whole nation,” Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management director Jason Biermann said. “So in terms of sharing resources, some of the tools we had in place to help us in an earthquake, like folks coming in from another state to help us, that’s not available.”
Unlike the sudden damage a quake would cause, COVID-19 has ramped up over weeks, unpredictably and mercilessly.
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