Titled “2013-14 Pandemic Influenza Continuity Exercise Strategy,” the FEMA training simulates a global pandemic of influenza that spreads from person to person, including in the U.S. The Obama administration, meanwhile, is under fire for its mishandling of the Ebola crisis, allowing infected people to enter the country and cause widespread panic and political turmoil as officials make claims and promises that turn out to be false. The FEMA training began last year, before the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has killed nearly 5,000 people. An overview of the training includes a list of assumptions such as that the “clinical disease attack rate will likely be 30...
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