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Biologic exercise exposes federal-state messaging and authority gaps; city pushes for clearer public messaging and medical-surge plans
Summary
DEM officials described Dark Zephyr, a multiagency exercise that revealed scientific uncertainty, bureaucratic friction and conflicting federal-state assumptions about authority and public messaging during prolonged biologic incidents; officials urged improved local plans for recovery and medical surge.
San Francisco emergency managers and public-health officials said a recent exercise series that simulated multi-day biologic events exposed gaps in coordination, public messaging, and assumptions about who is "in charge" when responses move beyond the first 72 hours.
Rob Dudgeon of the Department of Emergency Management described Dark Zephyr, a series of tabletop exercises and national-level senior-officials meetings. "A lot of it's not tested," he…
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