Disaster Policy

REPORT: Inadequate COVID-19 Response Likely Resulted in 130,000 – 210,000 Avoidable Deaths

REPORT: Inadequate COVID-19 Response Likely Resulted in 130,000 – 210,000 Avoidable Deaths

Dr. Irwin Redlener, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D., Sean Hansen, MPA, and Dr. Hupert, published a report on the number of avoidable deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States. The report found that 130,000 - 210,000 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented.

Trump Said Coronavirus Would 'Miraculously' Be Gone By April. Well, It's April.

During an online COVID-19 briefing last week, Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, dismissed Trump’s Easter target.

“I just want to say on behalf of everyone I know in the business, that is literally out of the question,” Redlener said. “This cannot happen. It should not happen. We actually should be increasing the restrictions for some period of time.”

US Remains Ill-prepared for Terror Attacks, Natural Disasters [Part I & Part II]

How prepared is the U.S. to deal with future disasters? The Globe Post asked Dr. Irwin Redlener. In this two-part interview, Redlener reexamines where the U.S. stands today regarding disaster preparedness, taking new factors into account such as up-to-date climate science, the threat of cyber warfare and the election of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s HHS Secretary Alex Azar Must Resign Now

There is no justifying the unrelenting trauma the U.S. government is purposely inflicting on children and parents separated at the southern border as an explicit deterrent to immigration from Central America. It is an unconscionable use of overt cruelty as governmental policy. And many Americans, even ardent Trump supporters I have spoken with, say they find this policy abhorrent.