Global & Disaster Medicine

In India & Bangladesh: The most vulnerable people, it seemed, had gotten out of the way of Fani

May 5th, 2019

NYT

“……To warn people of what was coming, they deployed everything they had: 2.6 million text messages, 43,000 volunteers, nearly 1,000 emergency workers, television commercials, coastal sirens, buses, police officers, and public address systems blaring the same message on a loop, in local language, in very clear terms: “A cyclone is coming. Get to the shelters.”

[Update: “The worst is over”: A sigh of relief in India, mostly spared by cyclone.]

It seems to have largely worked…..”

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