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Pentagon Says FEMA Wants It To Find 100,000 Body Bags For Pandemic Fatalities
April 2, 202011:06 AM ET
The Pentagon says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked for 100,000 cadaver pouches.
Two days after the top U.S. immunologist warned the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic could surpass 100,000, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that it has received a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to round up 100,000 body bags from Department of Defense contractors.
"The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a longstanding arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA's industrial partners during crisis response operations," Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews wrote in an e-mailed statement. "DLA is currently responding to FEMA's prudent planning efforts for 100,000 pouches to address mortuary contingencies on behalf of state health agencies."
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April 2, 202011:06 AM ET
The Pentagon says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked for 100,000 cadaver pouches.
Two days after the top U.S. immunologist warned the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic could surpass 100,000, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that it has received a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to round up 100,000 body bags from Department of Defense contractors.
"The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a longstanding arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA's industrial partners during crisis response operations," Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews wrote in an e-mailed statement. "DLA is currently responding to FEMA's prudent planning efforts for 100,000 pouches to address mortuary contingencies on behalf of state health agencies."
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https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...medium=twitter