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Keeping the lights on in our hospitals amid COVID-19 and other emergencies

April 13, 2020

In the midst of the modern world’s greatest public health crisis, we must focus on keeping the lights on in our hospitals and medical care facilities.

We’re rightly worried about shortages of personal protective equipment, the lack of testing capacity, and entire regional medical systems being overwhelmed with outbreaks. Our ability to respond to and recover from the novel coronavirus pandemic also depends on critical infrastructure systems — electricity, water, communications — that we often take for granted. We must mitigate immediate risks that vulnerabilities to these systems pose for public health today and change the way we prioritize and invest in critical infrastructure in the future.

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