Thread by @SamLMontano

Ive seen a bunch of folks in the past few days have realizations about our increased vulnerability to other disasters bc of COVID.

Disaster experts, emergency managers & journalists have been on this since COVID began (even before!) so I want to share some resources! #EMGTwitter

Here’s my first thread raising concern about this in early March:

https://twitter.com/SamLMontano/status/1237878136945041413

Also remember there already have been other disasters around the world that have been affected by the COVID response – do a google on Midland, Cyclone Amphan & Harold among others.

Here’s a thread of just SOME of the articles that have addressed this concern:

Here’s @KendraWrites talking about how COVID could hinder wildfire efforts all the way back in March:

nytimes.com/2020/03/20/cli…

Then @cflav looked specifically at the issue of sheltering which, for obvious reasons, is a response task that is particularly complicated by the pandemic.

nytimes.com/2020/03/21/cli…

Earther has had regular coverage starting with @yessfun specifically on hurricanes.

earther.gizmodo.com/hurricane-seas…

Time Magazine had a piece on tornadoes.

time.com/5821436/corona…

Then @AndreaTWeather had this really excellent overview in Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com/article/what-h…

So did National Geographic.
nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/0…

Here’s one from St. Louis specifically about flooding.
stltoday.com/news/local/met…

And one from @ByAdamWagner specifically about North Carolina.
newsobserver.com/news/local/art…

And one on New Jersey.

(You get it. Google your state, I bet you’ll find one.)

nj.com/coronavirus/20…

Even Inside Edition got in on the dreaded hurricane in a pandemic scenario.
insideedition.com/what-could-hur…

This one from @carly_berlin in Southerly specifically focused on what emergency managers are doing to prepare for this scenario.
southerlymag.org/2020/05/06/eme…

This piece in the Atlantic from @SquigglyVolcano took an all-natural hazards approach to the scenario.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The latest one from @edyong209 on a pandemic within a pandemic:
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

If you don’t like reading, there are podcast options too.
Here’s an episode from The Takeaway: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takea…

And another from Trend Lines:
worldpoliticsreview.com/podcast/28792/…