COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed to Better Ensure an Effective Federal Response.

CRISIS management; COVID-19 pandemic; PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC health; UNITED States. Government Accountability Office; UNITED States. Dept. of Health & Human Services; UNITED States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

The article presents a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the federal government's efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Other topics include the efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide medical supplies like personal protective equipment (PPE), and the number of temporary and permanent unemployed Americans due to the pandemic.