The influence of the media in disaster response

The selected public health emergency for this task is COVID-19. This is a pandemic that

emerged in late 2019, from which it devastated the entire world within a few months of its

discovery. As has always been the case with disasters, the US followed a series of steps that

govern public health emergency planning and response. According to Mason et al. (2020), some

of the key areas within the disaster and emergency planning cycle include the arrival by local

responders, activation of state emergency response systems, the assessment of the damage by

governors, request of federal assistance by the states, declaration of a state of emergency by the

president, and dissemination of assistance by FEMA and other federal agencies. As the worst