PHOTOS OF WHOLE-OF-AMERICA COVID-19 RESPONSE VOLUME 24
[https://www.fema.gov/news-release/20200422/photos-whole-america-covid-19-response]


Release Date: 
四月 22, 2020 

WASHINGTON — The whole-of-America response to fighting the
COVID-19 pandemic continued today, as FEMA reps visited a Battelle
decontamination system site in Wisconsin, an alternate care facility
was set up in Philadelphia and reusable face shields arrived in New
Jersey.

FEMA continues to expedite movement of commercially pre-sourced and
commercially procured critical supplies from the global market to
medical distributors in various locations across the U.S. through
Project Airbridge.

As of April 21, Project Airbridge has completed 70 flights with an
additional 46 scheduled.  Two flights landed in Chicago yesterday,
with four flights scheduled to land today:  two in Chicago, one at
JFK (NY) and one at LAX.
 

Through Project Airbridge, the following supplies have been delivered
from overseas manufacturers to the U.S. and into private sector supply
chains from March 29 to April 19:

 	* More than 760,000 N95 masks.
 	* More than 608 million gloves.
 	* More than 52 million surgical masks.
 	* More than 7.4 million surgical gowns.
 	* Nearly 2.1 million thermometers.
 	* More than 562,000 face shields.

To date, FEMA has obligated $5.7 billion in support of COVID-19
efforts. In the last 24 hours, that figure includes:

 	* $30 million to California.
 	* $2 million to Colorado.
 	* $6.5 million to Louisiana.

FLA. HOUSE REP. JASON FISCHER VISITS JACKSONVILLE TESTING SITE 

 [4 men standing around and one man is checking the temperature of
Florida House of Representative] 
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. (APRIL 21, 2020) — Jason Fischer, a member of
the Florida House of Representatives, visits Jacksonville’s COVID-19
community-based testing site at TIAA Bank Field.  More than 2,300
Florida National Guard soldiers are responding to the COVID-19
pandemic by supporting multiple testing site locations throughout the
state.

_Florida National Guard photo by Sgt. Michael Baltz_
 

FEMA REPS VISIT BATTELLE SITE IN WISCONSIN

 [People standing inside a critical care site, wearing face masks] 
WAUKEGAN, ILL. (APRIL 20, 2020) — FEMA Region 5 leadership visits
the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System site at Cardinal
Health in Waukegan, Illinois. This is one of many decontamination
sites around the nation that Battelle has set up in response to the
COVID-19 outbreak.

_FEMA photo by Dominick Del Vecchio_
 

FEMA, USACE SETUP ALTERNATE CARE FACILITY IN PHILADELPHIA

 [A group of people talking in a circle wearing face masks] 
PHILADELPHIA (APRIL 20, 2020) — FEMA’s Region 3 reps, along with
the Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia Office of Emergency
Management and others, transforms Philadelphia’s Temple University
Liacouras Center into an alternate care facility to support the city
and state for hospital surge as a result of COVID-19.  The facility
has a 221-bed capacity.  Additional areas are being set up and
equipped with pressure tents to care for recovering patients.

_Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management photo by Jeffrey D.
Kolakowski_
 

BOEING DELIVERS REUSABLE FACE SHIELDS TO FEMA

 [Man looks inside box and lifts out medical face masks. ] 
COLTS NECK, N.J. (APRIL 20, 2020) — A FEMA logistics specialist
receives a shipment of reusable, 3D-printed face shields from Boeing
to support healthcare professionals working to stop the spread of
COVID-19.

_FEMA photo by K.C. Wilsey_
 

2ND WAVE OF AMBULANCE UNITS, CREWS ARRIVE IN NEW JERSEY

 [Row of parked ambulances] 
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (APRIL 20, 2020) — Another wave of
ambulances arrive to support local hospitals and New Jersey EMS
personnel and relieve some units from the first wave.  Crews were
thanked for their COVID-19 response efforts.  A moment of silence was
held for New Jersey first responders who have lost their lives due to
the pandemic. There are currently more than 600 responders assigned in
New Jersey.

_FEMA photo by K.C. Wilsey_
 

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