Former FEMA director and Florida Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate said the U.S. is not keeping up with supplies, testing, equipment, protective gear and care when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re behind and we’re losing,” Fugate said. “The problem with pandemics and the problem with COVID-19 is people are the vector and it doesn’t move any other way.
And too often what we have seen is by the time we have enough cases that people take it seriously, it’s lost containment and it’s much worse than we know.” Fugate is one of the only Democrats to have been appointed by Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush. He served as Florida's Emergency Management Director for almost a decade. After that, President Obama appointed Fugate as FEMA