"During the first hurricane season of the coronavirus pandemic, emergency officials warned residents in low-lying coastal areas to pack masks in their evacuation bags.
This year, they’re urging everyone to be vaccinated.
“The one thing that’s really changed since last year is we have vaccines,” Craig Fugate, a former Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, said. “So part of hurricane preparation is getting vaccinated if you aren’t already.”
Late summer and early fall are the peak of hurricane season, when the biggest, most dangerous storms usually appear. But this year, hospitals in hurricane-prone states across the Gulf Coast are already dealing with disaster: a surge in COVID-19 cases that have intensive care units practically bursting at the seams, with the University of Mississippi Medical Center even staging two field hospitals in parking garages to cope with the onslaught of patients."
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