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COVID-19: Poor New Orleans. First Katrina and Now Coronavirus

In both cases, the future was predicted by disaster exercises.

Earlier I blogged on how two disaster exercises revealed lessons that could have helped in disasters that quickly followed. First Hurricane Katrina and now the COVID-19 epidemic.

I think Louisiana is going to take it on the chin -- hard! While we have been watching New York, the crisis has been building in that state. They don't have the same level of resources as New York.

See COVID-19: Exercises Hurricane Pam and Crimson Contagion -- What They Have in Common.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.