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Coronavirus: Strategic National Stockpile was ready, but not for this

  • Written by Andrew Lakoff, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Members of the Maryland Air National Guard arrange medical supplies for shipment from the Strategic National Stockpile.Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers/Maryland Air National Guard

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, Americans have been hearing a lot about an obscure but vast federal trove of emergency supplies, the Strategic National Stockpile.

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