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54 declarations since 2015 · 51 states

Public health emergencies

The illness is not the whole emergency.

In June 2020, 41% of US adults had avoided medical care because of COVID concerns — 12% skipped urgent or emergency care and 31% skipped routine care. The households that struggled were the ones with a prescription, a chronic condition or a caregiving duty and no plan for any of them.

Source: CDC MMWR
Do this tonight

Write down every prescription in the house with its dose, and find out how early each one can be refilled.

Where public health emergencies actually get declared

Federal major disaster declarations, FY2015–present.

Alabama 2Arizona 2Florida 2Alaska 1Arkansas 1California 1Colorado 1Connecticut 1Delaware 1District of Columbia 1Georgia 1Hawaii 1Idaho 1Illinois 1Indiana 1Iowa 1Kansas 1Kentucky 1Louisiana 1Maine 1Maryland 1Massachusetts 1Michigan 1Minnesota 1
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The 72-Hour Checklist

One page, and it works for every hazard — the first ninety minutes look the same in all of them.

Your state
What you actually face

Every declaration where you live, ranked, with the failure mode behind each.

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